She’s my absolutely favorite kind of protagonist to write because she’s so deeply flawed and problematic, but we can only ...

As Netflix's series Apple Cider Vinegar is released, telling the story of scammer Bella Gibson, we look into three other ...

New Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar tells the story of an influencer who lied about having a terminal illness to promote ...

But in 2013, Gibson said on Instagram that she had inexplicably ... In 2019, The Atlantic published an article about ...

Back in 2013, a remarkable, against-all-odds story ... Some might attribute Gibson's knowingly false claims to Munchausen syndrome (a condition also called factitious disorder, and defined as ...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is the disturbing mental disorder in which caregivers, usually mothers, intentionally harm children in a twisted compulsion to create symptoms requiring medical care ...

The term “Munchausen syndrome” was coined in 1951 by Richard Asher, who named it after Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen (also known as Baron von Munchausen), an eighteenth ...

Belle Gibson was born in Tasmania, Australia, on October 8, 1991. She left her home in Brisbane at age 12 and lived with family friends, moving around until she relocated to Melbourne and welcomed a ...

Urker shared a snap of the new mom — whose experience as a victim of Munchausen by proxy made national headlines — cradling their baby in an Instagram post with the caption, "Welcoming 2025 with the ...

A documentary about the failed project emerged in 2013, providing further details about the troubled production, with the team assembled by Jodorowsky going on to influence the sci-fi boom of the ...