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Saturday, June 6, 2015

E.L. James Is Just “An Ordinary Mum”

E.L. James may have written one of the biggest blockbusters of all time with the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy and made erotica romance novels mainstream, but her neighbors and people close to her describe the bestselling author as “an ordinary mum” at the end of the day.

In a testament to the popularity of E.L. James’s books, her latest novel, ‘Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian Grey,’ is already #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list, and that’s just for the preorder. Yet her regular life is pretty down-to-earth. For one, her family aren’t exactly huge ‘Fifty Shades’ fans. A friend told People:

Her [two] kids are kind of embarrassed about the content of the books, and she’s always telling funny stories about her husband who doesn’t quite get the craze over the books.”

Well, those books are likely the reason they now live in a 2.6 million pound mansion, so hopefully they at least appreciate that- LOL.

E.L. hangs out with her Ealing neighbors, keeping things low-key. One neighbor said:

She goes to the local pub for the pub quiz with a group of friends and just sits in the corner having a couple glasses of wine. We only found out who she was when someone on our quiz team heavily into literature pointed her out.”

You can see her “regular” life on Instagram. Check out these photos of a cake-making session:

Nothing plain or old about vanilla…

A photo posted by E L James (@erikaljames) on May 30, 2015 at 10:32am PDT

Whipping…

A photo posted by E L James (@erikaljames) on May 30, 2015 at 10:35am PDT

Licking…

A photo posted by E L James (@erikaljames) on May 30, 2015 at 10:44am PDT

Delish #NotMyCooking

A photo posted by E L James (@erikaljames) on May 30, 2015 at 2:26pm PDT

Love the licking pic: that’s the best part of baking, is it not?

One surprising thing that People found out is that E.L. James actually isn’t a big fan of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ movie.

She thought the scenes were beautiful, but the story was a little bland. The shots are great but as the writer, she didn’t like how it was translated on the screen. It sort of seems like a long extended music video. She wanted it to be a very sexy film but it wasn’t.”

Some could argue that the story was a bit bland because there wasn’t much plot in the book, but that’s one opinion. Given the huge success of the first film, it’s clear the fans were happy! Wonder what they’ll do to liven up the second and third books, ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ and ‘Fifty Shades Freed’? I’m sure she’s going to work closely with her husband on the scripts ;).