Lowecarb Lifer

It might seem like ROB LOWE represents the anti-transformation. But his consistent look is due to an evolution in his diet and exercise plans.

- Alex Bhattacharji

WHEN ROB LOWE looks in the mirror, he expects to find the same person looking back at him every day: a lean, toned, fresh-faced man in peak physical condition – himself at 28, the age when he had already got sober and married Sheryl Berkoff. “I feel exactly like that guy,” Lowe says. “And I see him.” It’s not that Lowe, 54, is oblivious to the passage of time – he’s just made himself impervious to it. “I’m fitter than I’ve ever been. More experienced. Smarter,” says the actor, who landed his first major TV role in 1979 and whose breakthrough came in the 1983 film The Outsiders. “I’m not looking at a 20-year-old kid in a cape as my due north,” he adds. “I’m looking at a guy like Springsteen.”