Real question is "Why the fuck..." She sold "Eat, Pray, Love" into a movie and I guess her agent made her a good deal is the "where."
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Yeah but she also had the money to fuck around the world and do Eat Pray Love, that comes from somewhere.
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 6 0 • view
I was told that she wrote a book proposal for "Eat, Pray, Love" that sketched out the adventure that she was *going to have* and got a large advance based on that. I have not verified that.
aug 31, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, sort of, the book she proposed didn't look anything like what came out of the trip. She talks about it in Eat Pray Love
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It comes from selling the film rights to “Coyote Ugly” and having written like three other books before it
aug 31, 2025, 7:39 pm • 21 0 • view
she also wrote that book on contract and had a huge publishing advance to pay for the year abroad
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 pm • 4 0 • view
It's always baffling when people pretend she wasn't already a successful writer before Eat, Pray, Love.
sep 1, 2025, 8:38 pm • 1 0 • view