Rob Lowe laments ‘bias towards good-looking people’

CEBU, Philippines - Pretty people have problems, too, y’all — just ask Rob Lowe!

The 50-year-old actor-author is obviously a handsome man, but sometimes being a dreamboat has its drawbacks. As the former “Parks and Recreation” hunk tells the New York Times, “There’s this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can’t be in pain or they can’t have rough lives or be deep or interesting.”

“They can’t be any of the things that you long to play as an actor,” he explains. But now that the actor is a bit beyond his Brat Pack days, he’s finally “getting to play those parts now and loving it.” He fully admits, though, “When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn’t have taken myself seriously.”

Lowe, whose second memoir “Love Life” is on sale now, thinks people were surprised by his “Parks and Recreation” and “Californication” characters because, as he puts it, “There’s a historical bias that good-looking people are not funny.”

His “Parks” co-star and onscreen love interest Rashida Jones calls him a “benevolent narcissist,” he reveals in his new book. “I’ve had years of psychiatry,” he tells the Times, “and I ask about every six months — it’s sort of like getting your oil checked — I ask, ‘I’m not an actual narcissist, am I?’”

“The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria,” he says. “There is [an actual list of narcissistic qualities], and the fact that we can even ponder the question immediately disqualifies me from being one.” (FREEMAN)