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Annabelle Natalie "Belle" Gibson (born October 1991) is an Australian app developer, blogger, and alternative health advocate whose marketing platform was founded on her fraudulent claims of having donated significant income to charities, and of having foregone conventional cancer treatments to positively self-manage multiple cancers through diet and controversial alternative therapies. Gibson is the author of the ''The Whole Pantry'' smartphone application and its later companion cookbook, both of which were subsequently withdrawn from sale. The Whole Pantry application was featured in promotional material for the as-yet unreleased Apple Watch, but was removed from Apple advertising after the controversy broke. In early March 2015, after media reporting identified Gibson's apparently fraudulent claims of charity fundraising and donation-making, further media investigation soon revealed that Gibson had also apparently fabricated her stories of cancer, and lied about her age as well as other details of her personal life and history. Concerns were expressed that Gibson had led a profligate lifestyle, renting an upmarket town house, leasing a luxury car and office space, undergoing cosmetic dental procedures, purchasing designer clothes and holidaying internationally, on money claimed to have been raised or destined for charity.〔Donelly, Beau, and Nick Toscano, "(Supporters turn on Belle Gibson as cancer claims unravel )", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 14 March 2015〕 Mainstream media were increasingly reporting specified fraudulent claims by Gibson and The Whole Pantry regarding charity fundraising and donation-making, and detailed the many inconsistencies in Gibson's claimed medical history. With a collapsing social media support base, in an April 2015 interview Gibson admitted that her claims of cancers had been fabricated, stating that "none of it's true". Gibson and The Whole Pantry's claims of charity fundraising and donation-making remain under investigation by Victorian State authorities. Gibson's actions have been described as "particularly predatory", and "deceit on a grand scale, for personal profit". ==Biography== According to interviews she has given, Gibson left her then Brisbane family home at age 12, to live with firstly a classmate and later a family friend. Gibson attended Wynnum State High School in Manly, Brisbane, before, at around the age of 16, dropping out of school in Year 10, although she also later claimed to have been home schooled.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Cancer survivor' Belle Gibson retains lawyer )〕 Gibson worked for some time as a trainee for catering supply company PFD Food Services in Lytton, Queensland, but social media reflected that by late 2008, at either 16 or 17 years of age (given an October 1991 birth date), she had relocated to Perth, where she was involved in the skateboarding culture and actively participating in its online community.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=santa clause Page 2 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.skateboard.com.au/bandits/read.cfm?forum=15&thread=65113&archive=0&blog=0&p=1 )〕 Gibson subsequently moved from Perth to Melbourne in July 2009 at age 17, and became a mother in July 2010, at age 18. Gibson launched The Whole Pantry application in August 2013, at age 21. Gibson reportedly told a prospective business partner in 2014 that she had "several names" that she went under, and in her most recent interview with ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' claimed "her mother changed her name five times". Gibson's corporate filings indicate that she is three years younger than she publicly claims to be.〔 In interviews, Gibson stated that since 2009 she had self-treated her then claimed malignant brain and various other cancers (blood, spleen, uterus, liver, kidney and neurological) through diet, exercise, the "power of fruits, vegetables",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Friday Foodie: Chocolate Nut Butter Cups )〕 Ayurvedic practices, craniosacral therapy, colonic irrigations and (controversial) Gerson treatments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Whole Pantry withdrawn: Holistic recipe book taken off shelves as Belle Gibson's cancer claims are disputed )〕 Gibson attributed the onset of her claimed cancers to a reaction to cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belle Gibson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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