Gilbert recalled being so depressed that she was unable to eat and said her body at that time was 'in constant pain. After the success of Gilbert's bestselling memoir 'Eat, Pray, Live,' Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search for their own best selves. (What kind of woman can’t keep a husband and doesn’t want children? #failure) And I was now lovesick (literally: SICK AND SUFFERING) over an emotionally unavailable man, who held me in such contempt that he couldn’t even make eye contact with me.' Elizabeth Gilbert speaks during a 2019 TedTalk. 'I felt like a failure because I’d blown up my marriage and didn’t want to have kids. About the Title The title Eat, Pray, Love matches the division of Gilbert's memoir into three books. She spent four months in Italy studying food and language she then went to India. The narration of Eat, Pray, Love is in the present tense, although Gilbert also uses the past tense to share her memories of key events leading up to the year of travel the book memorializes. I had been in a state of depression, anxiety, and shame for nearly three years,' she continued. Eat, Pray, Love is a book about Elizabeth Gilberts journey around the world. 'This is what I looked like, just a few months before I left for Italy.' 'Sixteen years ago today - on SeptemI got on a plane to Italy, to begin the journey that would eventually become EAT PRAY LOVE,' she wrote in the caption on Instagram. Gilbert, 51, marked the anniversary Thursday by sharing a throwback photo of herself shortly before she embarked on her life-changing trip.

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