Belle Gibson

Born

1991-10-08

Birthplace

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Biography

Annabelle Natalie Gibson is an Australian health fraudster, former influencer and pseudoscience advocate. She is the author of The Whole Pantry mobile app and its later companion cookbook. Throughout her career as a wellness guru, Gibson falsely claimed to have been diagnosed with multiple cancer pathologies, including brain cancer, and that she was effectively managing them through diet, exercise, natural medicine, and alternative medicine therapies. She falsely claimed she had donated significant proportions of her income and company profits to numerous charities. Gibson admitted in an April 2015 interview that her claims of having multiple cancers had been fabricated.