"Illness Influencer" Belle Gibson
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In 2015, Belle Gibson was an Australian "eco-preneur" with a vegetarian cookbook, a blockbuster wellness app and a terminal cancer diagnosis. Today, she's one of the most hated figures in the country.
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- The Woman Who Fooled The World
- What we know about Belle Gibson
- The mystery of Belle Gibson, who claimed she cured cancer with clean living
- Friends and doctors raise doubts over 'Healing Belle' cancer claims
- Mega-blogger Belle Gibson casts doubt on her own cancer claims
- Melbourne mum Belle Gibson on taking the world by storm with her app The Whole Pantry, while fighting terminal brain cancer
- The Belle Gibson scandal: The rise of lifestyle gurus as micro-celebrities in low-trust societies
- Belle Gibson: "My lifelong struggle with the truth"
- Catalog of Belle’s posts and timeline
- Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con
- Cosmo: An honest account of our experience with Belle Gibson
- Julia Watson's "Breakfast, School Run, Chemo"
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| 0:00.0 | What's your tagline? What do you have for us? |
| 0:13.2 | We're doing an influencer, yeah? |
| 0:14.8 | Oh it's a cancer influencer, does that help? |
| 0:16.6 | Jesus Christ! |
| 0:18.4 | Do you have a cancer singer? |
| 0:19.8 | I'm pretty. |
| 0:20.8 | Not a hamster. |
| 0:22.6 | You've been saving? |
| 0:23.6 | Uh, oh, here we go. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi everybody and welcome to Maintenance Fees, |
| 0:28.2 | the podcast that aims to be more benign than malignant. |
| 0:31.4 | Oh, doesn't work? |
| 0:33.8 | You did have one. |
| 0:35.0 | Did I have one? |
| 0:36.2 | Good, good, good. |
| 0:38.2 | Uh, I'm Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:40.2 | I am Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:41.4 | If you would like to support the show, |
| 0:43.4 | thank you so much. |
| 0:44.4 | You can do that by visiting us at patreon.com slash maintenance phase, |
| 0:49.2 | where we have bonus episodes for you, |
| 0:52.2 | including a forthcoming bonus episode |
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