Rob Lowe Memoir Grazes Over Tumultuous Love Affair With Melissa Gilbert

By Rob Shuter Posted Apr 27th 2011 11:40AM

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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Wednesday 27 April

By jwblackpride

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if i was married to that thing i wouldnt mention it either

By Hello Richard

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Thing???!!! Anyway, they were ENGAGED.

By stu

7 less nose jobs than MJ. she's a pip!

By wlh1923

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".

By Judd

Those are the breaks sista!

By gcwhitepride

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who cares about your predjudice bullshiit

Thursday 28 April

By janilee

THAT THING? She is a human being, not a thing, as are all women. How dare you! She was the president of the Screen Actor's guild and grew up on TV which must not have been easy. Have some respect.

By proudtbb

Oh Janilee you paint such a sad picture of Gilbert, I think I'm going to cry.

By facfgd

Little House on the Prairie was hardly a kids' show. One of the girls went blind and her baby was killed in a fire. It was a family-type show like The Waltons. People grew up with Little House and it meant a lot to them, just like those "Brat Pack" flicks meant a lot to people who grew up in that era.I love this , So does My boyfriend .he is almost 11year older than me .i met him via agegapsin gles.c'om a nice place for seeking age le ss love.which gives you a chance to make your life better and open opportunities for you to meet the attractive young girls and treat you like a king. Maybe you wanna check it out or tell your friends.. Just love it

hey Gary i like your new screen name gcwhitepride very original ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

hey gary i like your new screen name gcwhitepride very original ha ha ha ha ha ha bet you secretly wish it was gcblackpride ha ha ha ha ha

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peace to all my brothers and sisters i love all of you

By Carrieann

As if anybody cares about these two has-beens -- trying to grab a little bit of the spotlight again -- have to say! GAG! Their 15 minutes of fame were up a long time ago.

By maria1963

Melissa needs to get over it. I think she's a little too self centered. He probably looks at her now and says "yikes!"

By ruby

Don't bother this book is a bore! It covers non of his more news worthy facts, such as his relationships with Melissa or Princess Stephanie or the trouble between he and the Nanny,the sex tape nor anything else interesting for that matter. Guess his friends are the only ones that enjoyed these stories, hope they'll buy plenty of his books before they end up at the 99c only stores.

By sue

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Jealous, Maria?

By Crys

To be quite honest, I actually respect Rob Lowe for not digging up the "dirty laundry" on Melissa. There were things that are best left unwritten or not discussed. A lot of things written about ex-lovers can be seen as tarnishing or negative. Not writing about such things allows for a few things to be left sacred in a very public life. People know that he dated her. People know that he had scandel in the past. It just seems rather silly to dig it all up just to try to sell books.

By Ha

Yes, but that's kind of the point of a scandalous, tell-all book now isn't it?

By QueenKate

Without the "dirty laundry", he is just like every other Joe Schmoe on Main Street. So why would I then pay to read his "memoire"?

By Dee

You said it best.

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