Belle Gibson’s old social media posts, in which she claims to have cancer, are mysteriously being deleted from the internet. But this fascinating podcast interview remains…
Social media entrepreneur and wellness blogger Belle Gibson, who built her app and recipe book empire off claims she’d miraculously survived cancer using alternative therapies, admitted this week to The Australian that she may never have had cancer.
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Now, many of the social media posts referring to the Whole Pantry founder’s alleged illnesses have been deleted off social media.
The original post in which the Australian blogger announced having cancer in her blood, spleen, brain, uterus, and liver has been deleted. News Corp reports Ms Gibson’s stories of suffering seizures and hospital admissions are also disappearing from her Facebook and Instagram accounts.
The mother-of-one’s claim of having briefly died on the operating table during an operation in 2009 has also been deleted from an online forum she once frequented “at the request of a user”, according to the site.
Read more: Belle Gibson may have fled the country.
But in the below podcast excerpt, Ms Gibson can clearly be heard saying — twice — that she’d been diagnosed with cancer. She also claims in the podcast interview to be “really honest about” her health journey.
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I'm so sick of hearing the word "journey."
This should be really easy to prove or disprove. If Belle genuinely had a cancer diagnosis, then she could allow her doctors to speak about it or show her pathology/MRI/CAT/Ultrasounds. The problem is our privacy legislation allows fraudulent behaviour to go unchecked.
It really doesn't. Her fraudulent behaviour is being checked. If you're talking about doctor/patient confidentiality, then sure, she doesn't have to tell us anything, and neither does her doctor. But when those lies become fraud, ie. when she founds a company on the basis of her "cancer," or makes money from it, then it does become a criminal issue. I suspect The Whole Pantry, and maybe Penguin, will litigate. And then she would be compelled to produce evidence of her supposed cancer.