Rob Lowe Memoir Grazes Over Tumultuous Love Affair With Melissa Gilbert
In her 2010 tell-all memoir 'Prairie Tale,' actress Melissa Gilbert revealed she had had three nose jobs by age 20, struggled with drugs and alcohol and shocked the world with pages and pages on her tumultuous love affair with
Rob Lowe, including losing his child. Laura Ingalls all grown up. Now, Rob has released his own biography and, amazingly, it contains only a handful of passing mentions of her.
The book, 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends,' hit shelves on Tuesday and is heavy on his Hollywood bromances with Charlie Sheen and Sean Penn, dining with Chris Farley and his eery connection with the 9/11 tragedy. An amazing and fun read, no doubt.
Much has been made of the fact 'Stories' only grazes over his infamous (underage) sex tape, but a close inspection shows just as little attention on his former love, Melissa, whom he dated off and on for six years and proposed to.
A search using Google Books of both tell-alls surfaces
77 mentions of "Rob" in Melissa's book, but only
four "Melissa" shout-outs in 'Stories.'
She writes that she "fell instantly, hopelessly and stupidly in love" with him and later talks about the anguish of losing him.
Oddly, the most he talks about her is when he describes how when her mom was keeping her from seeing him, he began spending more time with Sheen and his brother, Emilio Estevez.
There is no mention of the length and intensity of their relationship -- which was filled with infidelities -- nor their brief engagement and tragic miscarriage.
It's a far cry from Melissa's description of losing their child in 'Prairie Tale.' After praising Rob for vowing to stand by whatever decision she made, she described waking up one day with blood on her sheets.
"Scared, I finally told my mother what was going on and she took me to my doctor. He did an ultrasound and told me that I was having a miscarriage. I went home in a daze and let nature take its course. I called Rob and told him what had happened. He seemed relieved. We made an attempt at a conversation but it was too sad."
She later writes about the tragedy, "There was nothing left for me to do afterwards but go home and face reality. I had lost the baby and my relationship with Rob. Now I was completely, totally alone, and it hurt like hell."
I've left messages for comment from reps for both Rob and Melissa, but a friend of the actress tells me she's "devastated" by the apparent slight.
"Of course Melissa has read it," a friend of the actress tells me. "She's devastated that someone who meant so much to her, someone who dominated her young life, doesn't think she was as important to him as he was to her."
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He saw the picture of her two weeks ago with the bad "bloated worms" lip job and the horrid unrecognizable face and he said - "not me I wasn't with that thing".
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Those are the breaks sista!
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Those are the breaks sista!
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THE KEY WORD HERE IS "EX" I THINK THAT MEANS NO LONGER INVOLVED WITH.........SO PRAY TELL WHY SHOULD HE WANT TO TALK ABOUT HER?
BUT THE REAL THING HERE IS WHO CARES???????
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Now matter what she is to him..For God's Sake man ..man up and quit with all the BS.. You are a low life if you cannot own up to the 6 years with her..You just lowered even more in my eyes what you think you are..
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Melissa in her book Already Wrote a lot about it so why keep beating a dead horse!!!
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Rob Lowe?? Well, in my corner of the world, he's exceptionally talented, a wonderful actor, and is handsome/gorgeous beyond words. And, who doesn't have a skeleton in one's closet -- we all grow-up, as he has done.
Seeing his beautiful smile should make anyone's day! Go, Rob!
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Melissa Gilbert will always be Laura Ingalls, sorry. I never could take her seriously in anything else. She had ruined her face with plastic surgery to the point that she looks disfigured. I agree, Rob didn't need to go in to details about her in his book .. it wasn't about her.
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I have made several bad choices in my life, I made amends where I could ... but I would hate having my life disected with a tell all book. Rob Lowe and Melissa Gilbert were dating off and on and maybe they were serious ... but whatever caused them to go their own way shouldn't matter to anyone. How many of you are concerned about what your exes are up to? The ONLY reason for a tell all book is to cause painful memories that should be left buried in the past. Nothing SAID or DONE will ever change the past ... so why waste time reliving the past relationships. THEN as in NOW ... who cares who is dating who? Who is sleeping with who? There are much more important things to concentrate on than past relationships of Rob Lowe and Melissa Gilbert.
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LeAnn Rimes needs a cheeseburger stat!
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This guy was never anything big anyway. Who cares???!!!
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The problem with this Gilbert woman is that she's a legend in her own mind! She hasn't had a career since she was 12 years old but thinks she is a movie star. A total JAP! He did the right thing not mentioning her much in his book.
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Say goodnight Laura. Rob wrote a book to sell. Any further mention of "the nose" would simply bore people and diminish sales. Don't judge the man if he doesn't want to write about someone. Hell. she may not have been that memorable to begin with.
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Oh yeah, before I forget, Gilbert is the female version of Scott Baio. He's another one who still thinks he matters. Chachi hasn't had a career since he was uh, Chachi! But the dude thinks he's a movie star!!?? I guess it gives them some kind of peace. Ignorance is bliss!
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who cares about your predjudice bullshiit
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Typical guy. Girls remember every detail, every feeling, guys are like What?
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I would want to forget her, too! She was about as much fun as piss*ng on an electric fence! By the way does he mention his little escapade with the underage girls at the Democratic convention in Miami. I wonder if he still plays the video tapes.
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I am very familiar with both of these people but certainly don't know them and don't know what went on between them. I get the point that a 'tell-all' book should be scandalous. But with both parties still alive and Melissa going through a big break up now with Bruce Boxleitner (sp?) I think I have to agree that Rob took the high road on this one. They were both young and made mistakes....didn't we all? Why drag all that through the mud again so that his kids, her kids and whoever have to relive it? I certainly wouldn't want to have a chapter in my life from that age printed for the public to read. You could just print one word on one page STUPID and that would cover it all!
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I think his male actor friends were obviously famous and noteworthy, and that his decision to write more about them would result in more sales...hey it's about selling books right? It could also be the case that the recollections of an early love affair are often obscured with time, especially in the case of how a girl and a guy would remember them. Judging from the turmoil in their relationship and in the other events of Lowe's life, (sex tapes, etc.), he didn't want to revisit those incidents. Some might argue that this isn't an honest account of his life, but who cares! Are you really going to go out and buy a book of memoirs of Rob Lowe!
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Rob is such a dirt bag. He has never cared for anyone but himself. Melissa should be happy she is not with him anymore. Rob has always been a B actor while Sean Penn is an A.
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