{"id":2193542,"date":"2025-12-10T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2193542"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:38:04","slug":"confessions-of-a-shopaholic-author-sophie-kinsella-dead-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/confessions-of-a-shopaholic-author-sophie-kinsella-dead-at-55\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Confessions of a Shopaholic&#8217; author Sophie Kinsella dead at 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2Fkinsella-41.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sophie Kinsella has died at the age of 55.<\/p>\n<p>The British author, best known for her 2000 novel Confessions of a Shopaholic, was with an \u201caggressive\u201d form of glioblastoma brain cancer in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Her family announced her passing via Instagram on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\">\u201cWe are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy),\u201d her loved ones shared on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSFUBmeDKW7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media.<\/a> \u201cShe died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\">The family continued, \u201cWe can\u2019t imagine what life will be like without her radiance and love of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite her illness, which she bore with unimaginable courage, Sophie counted herself truly blessed \u2013 to have such wonderful family and friends, and to have had the extraordinary success of her writing career. She took nothing for granted and was forever grateful for the love she received.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The message concluded: \u201cShe will be missed so much our hearts are breaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is developing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Kinsella has died at the age of 55. The British author, best known for her 2000 novel Confessions of a Shopaholic, was with an \u201caggressive\u201d form of glioblastoma brain cancer in 2022. Her family announced her passing via Instagram on Wednesday. \u201cWe are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2193543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21751,22062,304719,25601,21741],"class_list":["post-2193542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-death","tag-deaths","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Confessions-of-a-Shopaholic-author-Sophie-Kinsella-dead-at-55.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193544,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193542\/revisions\/2193544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}