Our reasons are very personal.Īt this time of transition, I hope you will respect our privacy.

He has been my dear companion for over 12 years, and they have been wonderful years. I am separating from the man whom many of you know as “Felipe” - the man whom I fell in love with at the end of the EAT PRAY LOVE journey. “Because I have shared details of my private life with you all so intimately over the years, I feel the need to share with you this recent change in my personal life,” she wrote. She called the parting “very amicable” and the reasons “very personal”. Camera Icon Author Elizabeth Gilbert has split from her husband. “Gilbert is irreverent, hilarious, zestful, courageous, intelligent, and in masterful command of her sparkling prose.THE author of Eat Pray Love is splitting up with her husband, whom she describes meeting at the end of her million-selling memoir.Įlizabeth Gilbert announced on her Facebook page on Friday that she was separating from Jose Nunes after being together for 12 years and married since 2007.

Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey. She published Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fearin 2016 and her most recent novel, City of Girls, in 2019. In 2010, Gilbert published Committed, a memoir exploring her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. Her work has been the basis for two movies: Coyote Ugly, based on her own experience working at the famously raunchy bar in New York City, and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. She's a longtime magazine writer - covering music and politics for Spin and GQ - as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home. Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of - running off for a year.

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