The Belle Gibson story: Part two

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🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Hiiii! Welcome to the second part of our series tracking Belle Gibson. In part one, she had just launched her app The Whole Pantry, and it was going extremely well for her. She was telling people that she was a 23-year-old mum with terminal brain cancer. And then, it all unfolded. Just a content note before you listen: this series might be difficult listening to those with cancer, or those with loved ones who have cancer. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and Chloe Wilson, and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Yoplait Protein for making this episode possible – protein-packed yoghurt that is creamy, fruity, and helps you stay fuller for longer compared to a low-protein food. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to the Shameless newsletter, Smart Dumb Stuff: http://eepurl.com/iH2sV-/ Aaaand everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0	Shameless Media.
0:05.0	Media.
0:07.0	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by Yoplay Protein.
0:10.0	Protein-packed yogurt that is creamy, fruityity and helps you stay full of for longer compared to a low protein food. Who moves call me a renegade, the one in the lions cage, sipping on lemonade.
0:26.0	Oh, I'm a dream, got your majesty at the back on the sea.
0:31.0	Yeah, you can call me the queen. Mel Gibson Part 2. Part 2.
0:35.8	Part 2.
0:36.8	We covered a lot in that first episode.
0:39.4	Shall we start with the fact that what we actually chatted about early on was that because Bell's story
0:44.8	as told by herself was littered with lies it's been a very hard one to track for example
0:49.2	her age yes god bless is iris gill, for trying to wade through it all.
0:54.0	She was evasive about one thing.
0:56.0	She would often just give like completely contradicting accounts on a lot of details in her life.
1:01.0	The one thing she was always vague about though was having malignant
1:04.6	brain cancer. She never ever said online what type of brain cancer that was and with
1:12.1	hindsight that was obviously a deliberate choice to keep
1:14.6	people from probably poking holes in the story that she was building. Bell at the
1:19.8	age of 18, 18 in real life 20 as the age that she said she was.
1:25.8	Gape birth to a son, Ollie.
1:29.2	She was living in St Kilda, then Corfield North in Melbourne. It was all very close to home for us.
1:34.0	It was very very close to home and at one point miss she decided along her journey to
1:38.9	start an app called the whole pantry. Well she was one of the first influences she had gained 200,000
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