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Apple Cider Vinegar’s Creator Doesn’t Want You to Get the Wrong Idea
“I really hope this isn’t a glorification of Belle’s behavior.”
In the early 2010s, the Australian wellness influencer was writing a blog about her struggles with brain cancer, amassing thousands of followers on Instagram, launching a recipe app inspired by the healthy diet that allegedly cured her, and ultimately getting a book deal. The book was written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the journalists who first exposed Gibson as a scam artist lying about having cancer, and provides the basis for Apple Cider Vinegar, the Netflix limited series created by Strauss. It follows Gibson, played by Kaitlyn Dever, as well as two women with real cancer diagnoses, as they navigate and, in some cases, take advantage of, mistrust in Western medicine, the brain-rewiring effects of social media, and the rivalries that emerged at the peak of the girlboss era.
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