Tyra Banks really is following the journey of the book Eat, Pray, Love. She was said to be going on a similar spiritual voyage when she headed East following her breakup with boyfriend John Utendahl, but now reports that she picked up a new man along the way suggest she really did follow in the footsteps of author Elizabeth Gilbert.

A source told PEOPLE that Tyra met her new man in Bali and said: “It’s a total long-distance romance, but it’s a big deal.”

Tyra supposedly went to China right before the holidays to tape the latest season of “America’s Next Top Model,” and after flying back to New York, the source says she turned right around and flew back to Bali to spend the holidays with him.

A rep for Tyra didn’t confirm the details, but we hope she really found love in a hopeful place. Maybe a spiritual retreat was just what she needed to find the right man for her.

Do you think it’s a good idea for Tyra to start dating again already?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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Media mogul Tyra Banks and her boyfriend, Brooklyn businessman John Utendahl, have gone their separate ways after more than three years together. But rather than sit at home and cry herself to sleep, Tyra has headed far east on a spiritual trip many are likening to the book “Eat, Pray, Love” to get over the split.

“Tyra has gone away with a female friend and has been island-hopping, visiting Bali, and taking a spiritual retreat,” a source told the NY Post.

Tyra seems to undergoing a personal overhaul all around. The new author and Harvard student recently appeared on Larry King’s “Dinner With the King” and confessed her no-nonsense attitude on “America’s Next Top Model” is just an act. “In real life, I’m passive-aggressive . . . I’m even in coaching to learn how to be confrontational,” she said.

Meanwhile back in the U.S., Utendahl has already been spotted with another woman whose been described as a “leggy Russian model.” Tacky.

Sounds like Tyra is on the right path. What do you think about her spiritual journey? Is that a good way to mend a broken heart?

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In Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir Eat Pray Love, six years into a marriage and after months of “trying” to get pregnant, Gilbert discovers that she does not want to be a wife or a mother.  Rather inconvenient timing for such a revelation, especially from her husband’s perspective.

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