'Confessions of a shopaholic' trivia and fun facts

The novel is set in London, however the setting was changed to New York in order to make it connect with an American audience and as New York was seen as a selling point to female audiences following the success of Sexo en Nueva York (1998).

Isla Fisher required five-inch stilettos to wear during filming.

"A shopaholic" is not a medical nor a technical term. The proper definition is oniomania, the technical term for the compulsive desire to shop.

Isla Fisher is only 14 years younger then Joan Cusack who plays her mother, Jane Bloomwood.

Isla Fisher researched shopaholism by visiting some overspend/under earner groups, who essentially are shopaholics and whose lives have essentially become unmanageable because of their shopping addiction.