Is Elizabeth Gilbert a lesbian?
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.
Is Elizabeth Gilbert a lesbian?
Elizabeth is a lesbian, Gilbert published a Facebook post saying that she was in a relationship with her female best friend, writer Rayya Elias and that this relationship was related to the breakup of her marriage.
The relationship began because Gilbert realized her feelings for Elias following the latter’s terminal cancer diagnosis.
On March 25, 2019, Gilbert posted on Instagram that she was in a relationship with United Kingdom-born photographer Simon MacArthur, who was also a close friend of Elias.
In an interview in February 2020, she shared that she and MacArthur were no longer together, calling the relationship “short-lived”.
After college, Gilbert moved to Philadelphia and worked as a waitress or bartender to save up enough money to travel.
Gilbert stated in a New York Times interview that she was influenced by Ernest Hemingway’s early career, and his short story collection, In Our Time. Gilbert believed that writers find stories not in a seminar room but by investigating the world.
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