Eat Pray Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

And she's tall and broad shouldered and has great chin. So she could look male. And she got herself all dressed up male and they faked a beard and everything.

And she said it was the loneliest, saddest week she's ever experienced. Like, yeah, people gave her more respect in certain ways. But she said when they told me to back away from my own eyes, it was like my soul went dim.

I'd like need an uplifting thing.

Eat, Pray, Love.

It's good. It's like, it can't not be a good book because it's so famous, but I think it's just a corny,

It's giving me some like motivation. I've lacked motivation lately in my own life.

Elizabeth Gilbert is a really, really good writer and everything she's done after I have really loved.

We'd only bought this house a year ago. Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it? The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

We're going to play a few clips from the movies as we chat, and this one comes from the movie Eat, Pray, Love, featuring Julia Roberts.

We'd only bought this house a year ago. Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it? The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

She in some sense helps to epitomize both the strengths and the weaknesses of this modern contemporary approach to marriage where we're looking to our spouse again not only for love but also this sense of personal growth and fulfillment.

One example of this comes from the bestselling book by Elizabeth Gilbert about walking out on her husband and trying to create a more meaningful life for herself.

We'd only bought this house a year ago. Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it?

The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

She mentioned Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Eat, Pray, Love, noting how it follows the author's brutal divorce and her later spiritual practice.

She was a successful author of Eat, Pray, Love.

Have the best time. It's gonna be like very Eat Pray Love. I think I should watch that movie before I go.

Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller, EAT PRAY LOVE, which has been translated into over thirty languages, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

In 2010, Liz published the follow-up to Eat Pray Love called Committed.

Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller, EAT PRAY LOVE, which has been translated into over thirty languages, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

Elizabeth Gilbert is author of the international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, which has been translated into over 30 languages and sold over 12 million copies.

The book became so popular that Time magazine named Elizabeth Gilbert as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

I feel like to me, she's one of definitely one of the most five influential people in my world.

I wrote about this in Eat Pray Love. So this was like 25 years ago.

Sounds like the beginning of Be Pray Love or one of those.

Precisely, it was exactly that.

Emily's favorite author, Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of the viral sensation, bestselling author, Eat, Pray, Love.

She sold more than 12 million copies of this book, Eat, Pray, Love.

And she's got a new one out that is set in Siberia in the 1990s.

Gilbert announced she was pausing the project due to, from Politico, a massive outpouring of reactions from Ukrainian readers who worried the book would romanticize Russia at a time when the country is accused of committing war crimes.

You remember a long time ago they had that book, you know, eat like uh, why eat like a French woman be a skinny bitch bitch like the uh, fucking chick over there in Paris whatever whatever it was called.

They had that book, you know eat like why eat like a French woman be a skinny bench bitch Like the fucking chick over there in Paris, whatever whatever was called

They had that book, you know eat like why eat like a French woman be a skinny bench bitch Like the fucking chick over there in Paris, whatever whatever was called

They had that book, you know eat like why eat like a French woman be a skinny bench bitch Like the fucking chick over there in Paris, whatever whatever was called

I watched Eat Pray Love this morning and I cried

She moved to Italy and did an eat, pray, love thing and met a boy and decided to stay there.

And it was like her eat, pray, love moment.

Okay, do you remember that book eat pray love?

That's where this woman breaks up with her significant other, this boyfriend. I think it was her boyfriend. She might have been getting divorced. I don't know, but she broke up with him.

Julie Roberts played the part. She goes to Italy. She eats a bunch of pasta, then she goes to India and is all into like yoga and praying and then she goes I forgot which the last place she goes.

But that's where she fell in love, met her second husband and then in real life because the book was about Elizabeth Gilbert the writer, was her own story in real life.

I just I would not be surprised if he has his own eat pray love and the love is like I don't know. Maybe just spends like a fun summer like at Fire Island or P town or whatever.

It's like the caveman eat prey love. No, Mike's like on a fucking journey now. Me eat what me want.

In addition to her global sensation Eat, Pray, Love, she's the author of Big Magic, a book about creativity.

And then I started dreaming about learning Italian. I think it was that little spark in the right side of my amygdala that said, want to create, want to make something, want to do something other than live in fear and despair. And that was the beginning of Eat Pray Love.

It's the 10th anniversary of Eat, Pray, Love, and there was a thing on Good Morning America today about it, and as props they made spaghetti and meatballs.

And then I was like, wait, is this fake food or is it real food? If it's real food, I'm eating it. And it was delicious. And that was my breakfast.

Elizabeth Gilbert's name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love.

Eat, Pray, Love was born of a moment of total collapse in her life. And you can call it chiclet, but it's inspired millions to move forward with their lives differently.

So I kind of resisted interviewing you earlier because there was a time when, you know, eat, pray, love was everywhere.