That's why the bestselling author's latest title is something of a departure from the standard cookbook format. It's all about trying to genuinely give goods and services that are helpful." While the business has mushroomed, that purpose has remained the same, Mills insists: "I obviously started Deliciously Ella for my own needs, but I've always been really passionate about being useful for people. I've been really surprised by how much that's changed me." "That has totally transformed everything I do - that sense of excitement around a meaning. "I think I've realised the power of finding a purpose," she reflects. I was really not someone who had big plans in life." "It's said with love, but it's completely true. "My mum's the first person to say, 'No one expected this of Ella'," she says with a laugh. Six cookbooks, an app, a restaurant and a supermarket product range later, the mum of two daughters (Skye, three, and May, who'll turn two in October) is as surprised as anyone about her phenomenal success. That's not dinner! Now you find amazing options everywhere, which is completely new and so exciting." "Going out for dinner, I'd be like, 'Do you have anything that's plant-based?' They'd be like, 'Oh, you can have a green salad'. "Ten years ago, you felt really lonely and like you're a complete weirdo," Mills says. Today, plant-based cookery has well and truly hit the mainstream, but back then it was a different story. Teaching herself to cook from scratch and sharing her experiments online, the culinary seeds were sown and the novice cook's following began to grow - today Deiciously Ella has 2.1m followers on Instagram. Taking matters into her own hands, Mills - who was born in Warwickshire, and is the daughter of former Labour MP Shaun Woodward - decided to overhaul her diet, cutting out meat and processed foods, which she found worked wonders for her health, and gradually she came off all medication. "I just hit an absolute rock bottom with my physical health, but also with my mental health," she recalls. "I was on antibiotics, I went into hospital for antibiotic drips, I was on steroids, I tried beta blockers."Įventually diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome and prescribed drugs that still weren't working a year later, the then 21-year-old was running out of options. "I had lots of digestive issues, I had chronic fatigue, chronic pain, I had a consistent UTI for four years," she says on a Zoom call from Deliciously Ella HQ.
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