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Milla Blake in 'Apple Cider Vinegar' isn't a real person, but her story seemingly draws from an Australian wellness influencer's life
- Netflix's 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is a 'true-ish' story based on Belle Gibson, a woman who built a wellness empire on the lie that she had cancer.
- The series features fictional characters, including Milla Blake (played by Alycia Debnam-Carey), who is reminiscent of the life of real Australian wellness influencer Jess Ainscough.
- Milla is presented as a young woman who was diagnosed with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, and despite the recommendation of amputation and repeated chemotherapy, she tries to treat her cancer through natural methods.
- As Milla's cancer worsens, she is joined by the fictional Belle Gibson as she tries to launch her own juice line and gets brand deals.
- Milla dies and the fictional Belle Gibson attends her funeral, which was reminiscent of a real life connection between Gibson and Ainscough.
- Before her death, Ainscough was a wellness influencer herself who died in February 2015 at the age of 30, seven years after she was diagnosed with epithelioid sarcoma.
- Ainscough used Gerson Therapy, an alternative medicine that has not been FDA approved, as treatment along with her mother, Sharyn, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and passed away in 2013.
- The fiction Belle and Jess Ainscough had met previously, but Ainscough's manager confirmed they were not friends.
- 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is streaming on Netflix.
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