Blogger belle gibson casts doubt on her own cancer claims, so she outed herself. An investigation by the australian has uncovered a series of unusual and contradictory medical claims from may two thousand nine. She claimed to have undergone multiple heart surgery operations and momentarily died on an operating table. Gibson has also stated that in july that same year when she was enty, a doctor told her she had terminal brain cancer and would be dead in four months. But according to the birth date on her own corporate filings, she was 17 at the time.