Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

Remember that line (and how you hated her anyway)?

Sure, there’s plenty of upside to being a Betty (never dreading the Snapfish photo album or bikini shopping), but there are definitely some downers: getting picked last on trivia game nights and those nagging Derek Zoolander moments when you think all you’ve got to offer the world is a pretty face.

Irini Spanidou tackles the ugly side of pretty — and the underbelly of the early ’70s — in her darkly glam new novel, Before.

Beatrice, twentysomething and too hot for her own good, lives in a Soho loft with her husband, a talented but angry artist. She’s desired by practically everyone she meets, and those responses become a fix she can’t live without and the only gauge of self-worth she has.

But everyone knows you can’t keep a PYT down, and how Beatrice gets back up and on with her bad self is a beautiful thing to behold.

Kind of like Blue Steel.

Available online at amazon.com.