Sex & Relationships

Nice girls are ‘out of luck’

Forget goofy and adorable, the 21st century man is looking for a bad “bitch.”

Author Helen Fielding — whose 1996 book, “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” sparked the chick-lit craze — said she was shocked to learn that in today’s online-dating world, nice girls like her heroine are out of luck.

During research for a third installment of the “Jones” series, set in today’s social-network-driven dating scene, Fielding posted two fake profiles on an Internet dating site.

Helen Fielding

One was for a friendly “Jones-esque” lady. The other bore the screen name “SuperLuckyBitch,” wore sexier clothes and acted like a mix of Amanda Bynes and any random Kardashian.

“So I had SuperLuckyBitch, who was glamorous but really horrible, and it said on her profile, ‘You’d be lucky to get a date with me.’ And the other woman was really nice and sweet,” said Fielding during a party hyping the release of the new book, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”

“Well, I bet you can guess who was the most popular. SuperLuckyBitch got all the replies,” Fielding said, according to the UK’s Daily Mail.

The author — whose “Jones” books led to two hit rom-coms starring Renée Zellweger — said it was hard to capture the voice of the Jones character, now a 51-year-old widow and mother of two.

“It took me about three months to become Bridget again,” Fielding said.

In the new book, Jones has to take her shot at modern love because she is widowed from her love Mark Darcy, who is killed by a land mine in Sudan. She said “Jones” fans were crushed at the loss.

“I knew there would be a reaction, but I wasn’t expecting to be watching the news and see something about the Syria crisis and the next thing is: ‘Mark Darcy is dead,’ ” Fielding told The Miami Herald.

Fields won’t rule out another Jones book but conceded that Bridget as a senior citizen might be a tough sell.

“I don’t know if I’ll bring Bridget back again at 61 or 65,” said the author. I’d only do it if I had something to say.”