Finished 'Apple Cider Vinegar'? These Are The True Crime Belle Gibson Documentaries To Watch Next
Her story is the inspiration behind Netflix's latest limited series Apple Cider Vinegar, but if you've already binged the six-episode series that tells the fraudulent tale of Australian wellness influencer Belle Gibson, fear not — there's plenty more where that came from.
For the uninitiated, Gibson (who is portrayed in the series by Kaitlyn Dever) was at the apex of her fame in 2014. She had amassed thousands of followers on social media — which she leveraged to secure a lucrative book deal with Penguin — her wellness app, The Whole Pantry, had been voted Apple's 'best new food and drink' app the previous year, and chosen for pre-installation on the soon-to-launch Apple Watch, and she'd banked over $500,000 AUD (£252,000) in two years, pledging to give a large part of it to charity.
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Elle Australia called the 26-year-old single mother 'the most inspiring woman you’ve met this year.' Cosmopolitan bestowed its 'Fun Fearless Female' award on her. Against all of the odds, Gibson's triumph telegraphed, she'd turned her life and diagnoses around — and you could too, by engaging with her business ventures. But simmering under the truth of Gibson's glossy selfies and inspirational quotes was the dark, ugly reality: she never had cancer.
While the 'true-ish' Netflix series borrows from the reality of Belle Gibson's fraudulent tale, there are several documentaries that also tell the story of the disgraced influencer. The first is a 2021 BBC documentary, Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con, and the other is a 2024 ITV mini documentary series, named Instagram's Worst Con Artist, which featured interviews with friends and family of Gibson's who spoke on the record for the first time since it was revealed that her story was all a sham. The two-episode mini-series also included footage of Gibson in her own words.
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