A well-liked health influencer admits she faked having late-stage pancreatic most cancers for 3 years to her followers

• Influencer MianBaobao advised followers she’d been identified with late-stage pancreatic most cancers three years in the past.
• She reportedly shared updates on her most cancers therapies with hashtags like “#cancerfightingdaily.”
• However in early June, she deleted all the things from her account and admitted her most cancers analysis had been a lie.

A well-liked Taiwan health influencer admitted to mendacity about having late-stage pancreatic most cancers.

The influencer, who goes by MianBaobao (Bread Bao) on-line, has deleted all of her older posts, in line with the South China Morning Publish, leaving solely an apology that admitted she had been mendacity about her sickness.

“To all of the members of the family, associates, followers, and netizens who’ve cared about me, supported me, and cheered me on, I need to apologize,” a translation of the apology, which was initially in Mandarin, reads partially.

MianBaobao, who has greater than 11,000 followers, first introduced her most cancers analysis three years in the past, the South China Morning Publish reported. Her on-line profile described her as “a girl who aspires to be a non-professional weightlifting athlete and an expert most cancers fighter,” in line with the outlet.

She commonly documented her weightlifting journey, but in addition shared her most cancers therapies, posting pictures of IVs, hospital scenes, and hair loss, in line with the SCMP, and used hashtags like #cancerfightingdaily on her posts. 

In accordance with the SCMP, a person who stated he was her ex-husband turned suspicious about her analysis as a result of, he stated, she would by no means permit him to accompany her to therapies. “Each time she went for therapy, she insisted that her household drop her off on the entrance to the hospital and insisted on seeing the physician alone,” he advised the outlet, alleging the pictures she posted have been really sourced from the web. 

“I did the very last thing an individual ought to do. I lied about most cancers and lied to everybody for 3 years. I am sorry to anybody who ever gave me a bit of kindness,” her apology continued. “I do know I need to die for the issues I’ve carried out. And now I have to pay the value for the alternatives I’ve made.”

She additionally apologized to the businesses that had made sponsorship offers together with her. “If there’s an organization that requires me to fork out a sum for compensation, I’ll achieve this. However I do know there’s harm that has been carried out that cash can not compensate for. All I can do is apologize once more.”

She ended the apology by saying she had “been the worst instance to individuals, and damage everybody who loves me, and who I really like.”

MianBaobao didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark. 

MianBaobao is amongst a number of influencers who’ve faked most cancers for both social media or monetary acquire. In 2015, Australian well being influencer Belle Gibson admitted that she had lied about having terminal mind most cancers and curing it with a self-developed weight-reduction plan plan she marketed as an app. 

And in 2021, a Twitch streamer often called MsDirtyBird apologized for mendacity to her followers about having lung and mind most cancers. The streamer had raised funds primarily based on the faked most cancers and advised Insider she “began off mendacity as a younger child” and “lies turned second nature to” her.

Extra not too long ago, TikToker Maddie Russo was arrested and charged with theft after elevating greater than $37,000 by way of a GoFundMe, claiming she’d been identified with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and stage 2 pancreatic most cancers. Russo stated she had a “soccer measurement tumor that wrapped round her backbone.”

However her TikTok viewers turned suspicious after they seen the medical gear she would typically encompass herself with in movies did not look proper. Customers have been additionally skeptical of Russo’s claims that she was in a position to preserve her hair as a result of she was utilizing biotin dietary supplements and taking oral chemotherapy tablets in lieu of intravenous therapies.