EXCLUSIVE'My sister's a master manipulator who belongs behind 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s!' The brother of Instagram's worst 反対／詐欺 artist Belle Gibson tells his 味方する of the story... after she made a fortune by （人命などを）奪う，主張するing a diet cured her 癌. Now she's 存在 immortalised on Netflix

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As children Nick Gibson and his sister Belle were the best of mates. They quibbled like any siblings but he 解任するs her 存在 a placid and caring sister.

‘She was my best buddy growing up,’ he says. ‘We got on so 井戸／弁護士席 everyone thought we were twins.’

急速な／放蕩な 今後 three １０年間s and the 35-year-old forklift 操作者 is as horrified as anyone by the person his little sister has become.

Belle Gibson, it turns out, is a heartless hoaxer, a woman dubbed ‘Instagram’s worst 反対／詐欺 artist’ after she 偽のd having 終点 brain 癌 to scam thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs out of her fans with her wellness advice and recipes.

Nick, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, with his wife and two children, is as decent as his sister is 新たな展開d. He is not autistic, as Belle once （人命などを）奪う，主張するd. He 簡単に struggles with reading and 令状ing, he tells me.?

Belle Gibson built a wellness empire by 納得させるing fans she had cured herself of 癌

What he doesn’t struggle with is 権利 and wrong. Because while Belle, who built a career as a wellness guru after （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have beaten 癌 with natural 治療（薬）s, has never apologised to those she duped, Nick wishes he could 本人自身で say sorry to every one of them on her に代わって.

‘I feel pretty upset by what she did to those families,’ he tells the Mail. ‘非，不，無 of them deserved it. They were 現実に going through problems for real and then you’ve got Belle who’s 偽のing 癌 and pretending to 直す／買収する，八百長をする herself and play doctor herself and all this other rubbish. The people she was scamming 現実に had 癌.’

Belle Gibson is a 世帯 指名する 負かす／撃墜する Under where she built a wellness empire by 納得させるing fans she had cured herself of 癌 with good 栄養 and 代案／選択肢 therapies.?

と一緒に her Instagram, healing_belle, which amassed some 300,000 信奉者s, she 開始する，打ち上げるd an app called The Whole Pantry in 2013, attracting 200,000 使用者s in the first month, a feat which meant it was 投票（する）d Apple’s Best Food and Drink App of the year.?

Before long she’d 調印するd a を取り引きする Penguin 調書をとる／予約するs to produce a cookbook with the same 指名する, 約束ing to give 25 per cent of the proceeds to 癌 charities. With her 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の story of 生き残り and her 肯定的な 見通し, she quickly became a 国家の hero. Cosmopolitan magazine even 現在のd her with their Fun, Fearless 女性（の） Award in 2014, months before her downfall.

But the 癌, along with （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of having a 一打／打撃, two cardiac 逮捕（する）s and heart 殺到する ries where she 明らかに died twice on the operating （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する, was a 嘘（をつく） so shocking that betrayed fans are still furious nearly a １０年間 later.

Indeed Belle, who is the 支配する of new ITV 文書の Instagram’s Worst 反対／詐欺 Artist, was such a deceptive master manipulator, によれば her brother, that he believes she should go to 刑務所，拘置所.

‘The things she’s done to those families, 井戸／弁護士席, technically it’s 詐欺,’ he says. ‘I think she should be locked up, spend some time in 刑務所，拘置所 and have a bit of a think about it because I don’t think she realises what she’s done to them.’

Belle Gibson built a wellness empire by 納得させるing fans she had cured herself of 癌 with good 栄養 and 代案／選択肢 therapies

Belle's brother Nick Gibson speaks in new ITV 文書の Instagram’s Worst 反対／詐欺 Artist

‘I shouldn’t be 説 this because I’m her brother but what she did was 汚い. Some 刑務所，拘置所 time would give her a wake-up call. The things she’s done... I don’t want my kids to be around that.’

With the second part of the ITV 文書の 予定 to 審査する on Thursday and Netflix filming a 演劇, Apple Cider Vinegar, 奮起させるd by Belle’s story, the Daily Mail sought to 跡をつける the elusive Belle 負かす／撃墜する. Now 32, she’s the mother of a teenage son living in Melbourne where the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 罰金d her £215,000 in 2017 for her deception. にもかかわらず calling her and leaving 非常に／多数の messages, however, she failed to 答える／応じる to our interview request.

When questioned by Australian TV’s A 現在の 事件／事情／状勢 at a service 駅／配置する in February this year about her scam and why the 罰金 remains 未払いの, she said: ‘Have some humanity, I 港／避難所’t paid things because I can’t afford to. You know I can’t get into the workplace.’ When asked if she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to apologise for betraying her 信奉者s, she stayed silent.

His sister’s 欠如（する） of 悔恨 troubles Nick and he wants Belle to take 責任／義務 by at least 支払う／賃金ing the 罰金.

But it’s not just the lying that 乱すs her brother; it’s the fact that 攻撃を受けやすい 癌 苦しんでいる人s believed in her and saw her as a saviour.

Belle may be Australian, but the 冷気／寒がらせるing truth is her deception 繁栄するd across the globe. In an age when people turn to their phones as much as their 内科医s for 医療の advice, attractive and 納得させるing influencers can easily 利益（をあげる） from 悲惨 and desperation with their unexamined （人命などを）奪う，主張するs.

Kylie Willey is one of those who fell for Belle’s （人命などを）奪う，主張するs. This month 示すs ten years since the 49-year-old Melbourne mother-of-three learned she had a Grade 3b T-独房 lymphoblastic lymphoma. She had tumours from her neck to her pelvis and needed 緊急の 治療 to stop the 病気 spreading to her brain.

Belle Gibson leaves the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 in Melbourne in June 20, 2019

‘For the next 18 months the doctors 粉砕するd me with daily chem otherapy,’ the former personal trainer says.

‘Over the course of my 治療 I had 27 lumbar 穴をあけるs so they could 注入する the chemo straight into my brain to try to 妨げる the 癌 spreading throughout my 団体／死体 and getting to my brain.’

猛烈に sick yet 決定するd to fight the illness so her three sons would not be left without their mother, Kylie 戦う／戦いd daily 頭痛s, brain 霧 and 抱擁する 負わせる 伸び（る） 原因（となる）d by steroids.

‘I didn’t recognise myself,’ she says. ‘I was dying and horribly unwell and because I was so neutropenic [with a 厳しく 弱めるd 免疫の system 予定 to a low 血 独房 count] I couldn’t be around anyone, even my children, because if they gave me something it was likely to kill me. Nobody could come 近づく me unless they were in 十分な PPE so I’d be like, “just don’t bother.”’

As she languished in Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital, Kylie 設立する herself spending more time on social マスコミ and became ますます intrigued by Belle.

A friend had について言及するd the young 癌 苦しんでいる人 and as Kylie began scrolling through Instagram 地位，任命するs 十分な of health-giving smoothie and raw salad recipes, she became 入り口d by how luminous and 十分な of life she appeared even as she 恐らく 戦う／戦いd a brain tumour.

‘I was in awe,’ Kylie 解任するs. ‘She’d been 診断するd with 終点 brain 癌 but she’d shunned 伝統的な 治療 and instead 精密検査するd her diet and lifestyle to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the 病気. It seemed a reasonable thing for somebody to have success with eating healthily and while I look 支援する on it now and think it was a pretty damn na?ve way to think, I was so desperate to have 救済 from what I was going through.’

Keen to know more, Kylie messaged Belle to tell her how 奮起させるd she was by her 旅行. When Belle wrote 支援する, telling her she was thinking and prayin g for her, Kylie was その上の ブイ，浮標d.

‘Her 肉親，親類d words meant a lot and I felt she was my friend.’

So 奮起させるing was Belle’s 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 拒絶する 従来の therapies in favour of curing herself with recipes and 代案／選択肢 治療s that Kylie decided to do the same.

‘I threw a tantrum five months into 治療,’ she says. ‘I was so sick and upset with what my life had become I told my doctors that I was done. I said: “You can’t 保証（人） that this is going to cure me so I want to give the 代案／選択肢 a go because Belle is doing so 井戸／弁護士席.” She looked fantastic while I had this buffalo hump on the 支援する of my neck and couldn’t string 宣告，判決s together.’

Kylie Willey during her 癌 治療. She said she was 以前 'in awe' of Belle

Some will 見解（をとる） Kylie’s 決定／判定勝ち（する） with incredulity; but that is to underestimate both the nature of hope and the 力／強力にする of storytelling.?

In an age when we form attachments to famous or 奮起させるing people, is it really 信じられない that a despairing person might look to another who has seeming ly dodged death by に引き続いて an 代案／選択肢 path? Addled by 麻薬s, seduced by Belle’s message and pictures of health, and with hope ebbing away, Kylie was not gullible. She was desperate.

最終的に, her saviour would not be the self-styled wellness guru but a 従来の nurse who listened to her 合理的な／理性的な but was 明白な in her advice.

By telling Kylie that she would be nursing her through palliative care if she eschewed chemo 治療, she returned to 従来の 薬／医学.

A １０年間 on, Kylie is 解放する／自由な of 癌 and 栄えるing but, like many, she wonders about those who were 影響（力）d by Belle and 選ぶd to abandon 治療. Having persevered with chemotherapy, Kylie, ironically, was in the hairdresser’s tending to her 地位，任命する-chemo regrowth when a story on social マスコミ 警報d her to the fact Belle had lied about having 癌.

Belle's Instagram account, healing_belle, amassed hundreds of thousands of 信奉者s

The shock, fury and betrayal was instant. The radiant 癌 生存者 who had 入り口d hundreds of thousands with her message that a healthy lifestyle had cured her of the dreaded illness was a 詐欺.

‘It made my 血 boil,’ says Kylie. ‘It was total deception. I wasn’t an idiot. I look 支援する and think I was probably easily manipulated, but there would definitely have been other people who were ひどく 影響（力）d by her and perhaps didn’t have the support system to talk them through continuing with 治療 or didn’t have the money because 癌 治療 is expensive in Australia.’

Belle was 最終的に rumbled by her friend Chanelle McAuliffe, who 直面するd the wellness guru over her 癌 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs after realising she had no symptoms. 新聞記者／雑誌記者s began 調査／捜査するing and, in an interview in The Australian Women’s 週刊誌 in 2015, Belle finally 認める she had lied for years about having 癌.

‘No, 非，不，無 of it is true,’ she said. ‘I am still jumping between what I think I know and what is reality.’ The 出版（物） also checked her birth 証明書 and discovered she had been christened Annabelle Natalie Smellie in 1991, making her 33. She had 以前 追加するd three years to her age.

While her brother 認めるs that 存在 raised by their 選び出す／独身 mother, Natalie, who 苦しむd from 多重の sclerosis and died in 2019, was difficult at times, he says his sister has long struggled with telling the truth and had ‘a lot of 態度’ growing up.

He 確認するs that Belle left home 老年の 12 to live with an older man in his 60s, but can’t or won’t explain what 誘発する／引き起こすd her to do so so young. On the occasions he visited his sister she had a separate bedroom and he saw no 証拠 the pair 株d an intimate 関係. Asked if he thinks she’s a clever psychopath or a 深く，強烈に troubled liar, he says he’s 自信のない and often asked Belle himself why she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have 癌.

‘When I asked her those questions she just kept on changing the 支配する, as she does,’ he says.

While he remains 傷つける by her （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that he is autistic and 苦しめるd by her deception of others, he still cares for Belle.

‘I’m always going to have a bit of love there for my sister. I just hope she gets some help for herself.’

Instagram’s Worst 反対／詐欺 Artist is on ITV1 at 9pm on Thursday