{"id":2194257,"date":"2025-12-11T01:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2194257"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:20:55","slug":"sophie-kinsella-author-of-shopaholic-novels-dies-at-55-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sophie-kinsella-author-of-shopaholic-novels-dies-at-55-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Kinsella, Author Of &#8216;Shopaholic\u2019 Novels, Dies At 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Sophie Kinsella, the author of \u201cConfessions of a Shopaholic\u201d and a series of millions-selling sequels died Monday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The family said in a statement on Kinsella\u2019s Instagram account: \u201cWe are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy). She died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t imagine what life will be like without her radiance and love of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Kinsella, who also published under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, announced in April 2024 that she had been diagnosed in late 2022 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI did not share this before because I wanted to make sure that my children were able to hear and process the news in privacy and adapt to our \u2019new normal,\u2019\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Starting in 2000 with \u201cThe Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic,\u201d (titled \u201cConfessions of a Shopaholic\u201d in the United States), about a financial journalist who writes about money matters but fails miserably at managing her own, Kinsella published 10 \u201cShopaholic\u201d novels, along with other fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Her books have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and have been translated into dozens of languages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The first two \u201cShopaholic\u201d books were adapted into the 2009 film \u201cConfessions of a Shopaholic,\u201d starring Isla Fisher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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 www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Sophie Kinsella, the author of \u201cConfessions of a Shopaholic\u201d and a series of millions-selling sequels died Monday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The family said in a statement on Kinsella\u2019s Instagram account: \u201cWe are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2194258,"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":[423701,361036,423702],"class_list":["post-2194257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-confessions-of-a-shopaholic","tag-glioblastoma","tag-sophie-kinsella"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sophie-Kinsella-Author-Of-Shopaholic-Novels-Dies-At-55.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194257","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=2194257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194259,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194257\/revisions\/2194259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}