It was the romance that provided the happiest of endings to an iconic memoir that became an international bestseller and spawned a Hollywood movie starring Julia Roberts.
But “Eat Pray Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert announced Friday that she was parting from her husband, Jose Nunes, with whom she fell in love at the end of a journey of self-discovery more than a decade ago.
“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,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
“He has been my dear companion for over 12 years, and they have been wonderful years. Our split is very amicable. Our reasons are very personal.”
The couple married in 2007 and lived in Frenchtown, New Jersey about 96 km west of New York where they ran a store.
“Eat Pray Love” tells how Gilbert spent four months in Italy savoring food, four months exploring spirituality in India and then traveled to Bali, where she fell in love, following a messy divorce.
In 2010, she published a follow-up memoir called “Committed” which explored her ambivalent attitudes about marriage and which also became a New York Times bestseller. Time Magazine named Gilbert one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.

Source: Arab News