Eat Pray Love is based on Elizabeth Gilbert's mother.
Eat , Pray , Love : One Woman 's Search for Everything Across Italy , India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert . The memoir chronicles the author 's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels . Eat Pray Love is a 2010 American biographical romantic comedy-drama film starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert , based on Gilbert 's best-selling memoir Eat , Pray , Love .