Novelist reveals breathtakingly cruel way top economist lover told her that she wasn't beautiful enough to be his girlfriend after sex that hurt her back

An acclaimed writer has revealed how a muscular economist lover told her she was not beautiful enough to be his girlfriend after showing her a spreadsheet detailing his other paramours. Merritt Tierce, a Los Angeles-based novelist and scriptwriter, revealed in her new book that her 'older' European lover treated her callously during their brief fling because of her 'plainness.'She claimed he told her he wasn't particularly attracted to her and would often give short responses to her lengthy writing, in a soul-baring extract published in the New Yorker that has caused a sensation on social media. Tierce, who was also staff writer on the hit Netflix show Orange Is The New Black, wrote in her upcoming book A Life in Men that he told her he wasn't as attracted to her as he needed to be. She wrote, in an extract published by the New Yorker, that he claimed he would choose her over 'someone gorgeous' if he were being sent to a deserted island as she would be more interesting to talk to. But, she wrote, 'in the real world, surrounded by other people who’d be looking at him with me, he knew that he would feel ashamed of me because he could have been with a more beautiful woman.' Merritt Tierce has shared a soul-baring account of dating a top economist who told her she was not beautiful enough to be his girlfriend Tierce, a novelist who also wrote scripts for prison drama Orange Is The New Black, told of how she tried to convinced herself that her lover would fall for her The incident, which she said took place in the kitchen of his New York apartment, came after he showed her his dating spreadsheet 'to see how many people he’d had sex with so that he could compare his percentage with mine.Tierce, now in her late 40s, did not reveal the man's identity in the extract though said they met on OkCupid and developed a casual relationship that she initially wanted to become more serious. She said they met at Buvette, a French bistro in New York's West Village, but that she could tell 'tell as I walked up that he wasn’t blown away by my beauty.'Tierce described him as having a body like a Greek statue, though said his lips were too thin for oral sex. Despite him not committing himself to her, she said she sunk a vast amount of time into the relationship. One Valentine's Day, Tierce said she wrote him a 3,400-word email about the romantic holiday. But, she claims, he wrote a mere 24-word-long response saying he was busy meeting with the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Tierce said her lover did not post any photos of her on his Instagram - except on one occasion where she suspects he wanted to show off her glitzy showbusiness connections Tierce's account of her lover features in her upcoming book A Life in MenShe said that after seeing him in New York while shooting the final season of 'Orange Is The New Black', she wrote him an 'infinite letter' that she posted to him for 37 days in a row. Tierce said she put herself through physical and emotional turmoil during their fling. At one point, she said they had sex that was so rough she tweaked her back and needed to see a chiropractor the following day. She also took up rock climbing, one of his hobbies, in an attempt to become 'thin and muscular enough for him to fall in love with me.'Despite all of this, she said she was desperate to keep herself in the 'running' to be a serious partner. Before a New Year's Eve party at his home, she bought live lobsters for him to cook for her and two close friends, 'even though everything already felt moot because of what he’d said in Cuba.'She said she also took issue with his social media use. After the pair travelled to Cuba together, she said he posted several photos of the trip to his Instagram but did not include her in any of them. Tierce is pictured on horseback. Her account of her relationship with the economist has caused a sensation online Tierce added that he told her a partnership was not real unless children are present, knowing that she had her fallopian tubes tied years ago to avoid future pregnancies.Tierce, who in 2019 won a Whiting Award for her fiction work, revealed in a 2021 essay for the New York Times Magazine that she cancelled plans to study at Yale as she had become pregnant. She said that she later married the father of her unborn child in a shotgun wedding, before later divorcing him. Tierce eventually began ignoring her economist lover on realizing that he was causing her pain and that there was no prospect of love.He got married to a woman and proudly shared photos of himself with her on social media.That was a spot for Tierce, who was conscious that the economist never shared any photos of her on his Instagram feed.He made one exception - the two of them at a season wrap party for Orange Is The New Black, which Tierce suspects was only uploaded so the economist could show off his showbusiness connections. It was later taken down. Tierce said she got one final email from her ex-lover on Thanksgiving, weeks after he married, saying: 'Wherever you are, whatever you do, I hope you are happy.'She did not send a reply.