Elizabeth Gilbert Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
She’s famous for her 2006 memoir, “Eat, Pray, Love”, which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks about the “New York Times Best Seller list”, and was likewise made into a movie by the exact same name in 2010. In 2006, Gilbert released Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Viking, 2006), a chronicle of her year of “religious and private investigation” spent traveling abroad. She funded her world journey for the novel using a $200,000 publisher’s progress after pitching the theory in a novel suggestion. The bestseller was critiqued by some writers as “priv-lit” and a “considered business decision.” Gilbert appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007, and has reappeared on the show to help discuss the novel and her doctrine, and to talk about the picture. She was named amongst Time 100 most influential people on the planet, by TIME magazine. The novel was optioned for a movie by Columbia Pictures, that was released as Eat Pray Love on August 13, 2010, with Julia Roberts starring as Gilbert.
Jose Nunes (m. 2007), Michael Cooper (m. 1994–2002)
Siblings
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Nicknames
Elisabeth Gilbert , Elizabeth M. Gilbert
Awards
John C. Zacharis First Book Award
Nominations
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Shorty Award for Best Author, James Beard Award for Personal Essay, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography
Movies
Eat Pray Love
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
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I have a great deal of sympathy for any cockamamie theory that tries to find meaning in randomness.
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I have trouble with orthodoxy in any form. I feel, having studied the 19th century evolutionary debate, a newfound sympathy for the pain that this discovery brought to people who - prior to Darwin - would have happily called themselves men of science and men of God. We now have a world full of scientists who have no faith and the faithful who have no reason, and that's a great loss for all of us.
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There is absolutely no ethical argument in defense of eating animals, and I eat them because I like to, you know? I know it's wrong, but I like hamburger because I like it. Also, sainthood can be extremely irritating.
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[on considering spiritual ideas] I think I'll be exploring those ideas forever. I've spent my entire life chasing wonder, and that word to me is synonymous with spirituality. I don't know what else there is to talk about.
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On Frenchtown, New Jersey: I love Frenchtown. I believe in this town. I think it's a remarkable place. And I definitely have been trying to lure people here who I feel like would get it or get something out of it.
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Fact
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In July 2016, Elizabeth Gilbert announced the end of her marriage to José Nunes (the man called "Felipe" in her book "Eat, Pray, Love" and its movie adaptation). Then, in September 2016, Gilbert further revealed (in a Facebook post) that the reason for that marriage's breakup was that she had fallen in love with her best friend of 15 years, Rayya Elias--something Gilbert only realized after Elias was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic and liver cancers. About Elias, Gilbert wrote: "She's my best friend, yes, but it's always been bigger than that. She's my role model, my traveling companion, my most reliable source of light, my fortitude, my most trusted confidante. In short, she is my PERSON....something happened to my heart and mind in the days and weeks following Rayya's diagnosis. Death-or the prospect of death-has a way of clearing away everything that is not real, and in that space of stark and utter realness, I was faced with this truth: I do not merely love Rayya; I am in love with Rayya. And I have no more time for denying that truth. The thought of someday sitting in a hospital room with her, holding her hand and watching her slide away, without ever having let her (or myself!) know the extent of my true feelings for her...well, that thought was unthinkable. Here is the thing about truth: Once you see it, you cannot un-see it. So that truth, once it came to my heart's attention, could not be ignored....For those of you who are doing the math here, and who are wondering if this situation is why my marriage came to an end this spring, the simple answer is yes. ... So. Here is where we stand now: Rayya and I are together. I love her, and she loves me. I'm walking through this cancer journey with her, not only as her friend, but as her partner. I am exactly where I need to be-the only place I can be.".
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Separated from her 2nd husband of 9 years Jose Nunes. [June 2016]
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Frenchtown, New Jersey [December 2010]
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Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from New York University, 1991.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Live and Let Die
2015
supervising producer
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Oprah's the Life You Want
2014
TV Series
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Eat Pray Love
2010
book
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Good Morning America
2016
TV Series
Herself - Author
Well Read V
2015
TV Series
Herself - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
TV Series
Herself - Author / Herself
The Dr. Oz Show
2015
TV Series
Herself
CBS This Morning
2015
TV Series
Herself - Author
Project Runway All Stars
2015
TV Series
Herself - Author, 'Eat, Pray, Love'
HuffPost Live Conversations
2014
TV Series
Herself - Host
Skavlan
2014
TV Series
Herself - Guest
One
2013
TV Series
Herself
Breakfast
2010
TV Series
Herself - Author
The Oprah Winfrey Show
2010
TV Series
Herself
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2010
TV Series
Herself
Known for movies
Eat Pray Love (2010) as Writer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Herself / Herself - Author
$25 Million
