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Ali Lohan may score a lot of perks thanks to big sis Lindsay – think nights out in Hollywood hotspots, Beverly Hills shopping sprees and the recent trip to Hawaii where the pair wore teensy bikinis and were photographed constantly.

Unfortunately, one thing the 15-year-old starlet isn’t getting from Lindsay is a good role model who’s making positive life choices. Experts say the sibling relationship could actually be harmful to Ali’s mental health.

“If you have an older child who is breaking a lot of the rules and engaging in dangerous and risky behavior, this can have a negative impact on the younger child,” said Dr. Eva Ritvo, psychiatrist and vice chair of psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

“Adolescents are trying to break away from their family and they don’t always make the best choices. They’re looking for role models other than their parents, and often turn to peers and older sisters, who can have a very powerful influence on the younger child,” she said.

Impressionable Ali can hardly help but notice Lindsay’s partying, stints in and out of rehab, and her skin-and-bones appearance. But how she reacts to those things could go one of two directions, experts say.

Some teens with out of control older sibs may copy them, while others fall into the role of trying to protect loved ones from the person. “You either try to outdo or you become a caretaker,” says Dr. Keith Ablow, psychiatrist and Fox News contributor, who founded the website www.LivingtheTruth.com.

“The course Ali is taking appears to be more in the direction of copying than in shrinking from the cameras and the revelry,” he said.

Besides the risk of having Ali try to emulate an older sib who’s engaged in some negative behaviors, there’s the danger that she’s not getting enough parental attention because so much of it is focused on Lindsay.

“When you are a sister of the woman the world watches and who is seemingly more heat than light, you can get lost in the attempt to get attention,” Ablow said. “It’s like sibling rivalry on steroids, and to step out of that kind of energy is like stepping out of a tornado and hoping to not get chewed up as you step out of it.”

Psychologist Donna LaMar said that Ali could be helped if a caring adult steps in and offers guidance, support and perspective. That person does not necessarily have to be a relative in order to be effective, she said.

“It could be a teacher or in her case, maybe someone in the business,” LaMar said.

“The person could just say to her, hey what are you doing? What are you searching for and what do you need in your life right now?” What’s important for those close to Ali is to not give up, LaMar said.

“It’s never too late,” she said. “There is always a choice to be made.”

For now, Ali, who was recently spotted holding Lindsay’s hand as they left West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont together, appears to be choosing Lindsay.

She’s in a tough spot, acknowledged Ablow. “Trying to get what you need as a 15-year-old girl can be a tall order when your sister is very famous and very unpredictable,” he said.

“A 15-year-old should not have to be in the role or either caretaker or competitor, but she should be in a comfortable place where she can become an individual, where she can look at the world with security and choose what defines her.”

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Yankee fans snapped up copies of the bombshell new Alex Rodriguez book Monday as the tell-all tome went on sale at stores and on the Web.

The inside account of A-Rod’s steroid-tarnished career by Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts debuted at No. 59 on Amazon.com and is now the best-selling sports book and best-selling biography on the site.

Ishmail Jones, a student living in Manhattan, said he’s a “big fan” of A-Rod and plans to read the book.

“I’ve heard so much about it, I want to read about the steroids and about his personality,” Jones said. “I look up to him a lot, and when the controversy came out I was like, ‘Wow.’”

At the Yankee Clubhouse Shop in Times Square, Leo Giargiana said he’ll buy the book because he trusts Roberts’ reporting.
“Everything she’s written before has been accurate,” said Giargiana of Brooklyn. “This book’s going to open a whole can of worms.”

The book’s release was moved up by several days after the Daily News reported some of its key details last week.

Roberts reveals in the book that Rodriguez may have used steroids as early as high school and was suspected of being on the juice while playing for the Yankees.

A sales clerk at the Borders store at W. 33th St. said “A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” is still not outselling Joe Torre’s book, which came out several weeks ago.

Richard Wilt, an actor from midtown, couldn’t resist buying a copy on the first day.

“How can someone who has it all make himself so unpopular and unattractive to others?” he said. “It’s fascinating and a shame, too.”

A-Rod isn’t talking about the book. Yankees manager Joe Girardi blasted the author for her unflattering portrait of the MVP slugger.

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The upcoming paperback version of his best-selling novel, “Bright Shiny Morning,” includes two passages omitted from the hard cover, which came out last year.

The first passage is a triple X-rated story of an affair between a lawyer for the ACLU and the wife of a Republican senator who meet in a bar and proceed to have raunchy sex in bathrooms, alleys, seedy motels and the backseats of the cars. The sex scenes — deemed too racy for some readers — are included in the paperback.

The second passage is more controversial because it seems to be based on Frey and his nemesis, Winfrey. Who doesn’t remember Frey’s disastrous appearance on Winfrey’s show three years ago after his megabest-selling memoir, “A Million Little Pieces,” was found to have been embellished — an appearance that publishing legend Nan Talese, who appeared on the show with Frey, characterized as “mean and self-serving” and a “public scourge.”

The new section contains a story about someone caught up in a highly publicized controversy and a television show that he knows is going to end badly for him. When he feels people “turning on him,” he starts taping all his phone calls, including some with “the producers of the show, the executive producer of the show.” After getting publicly eviscerated, he tapes one with “the host,” where she checks to make sure he isn’t “going to hurt himself” and reveals some startling information about herself.

When asked for comment by Page Six, Frey laughed and said, “The book is fiction. Interpret it however you want.”

Near the end of the passage, the narrator informs us that he has made copies of the tapes and distributed them to friends for safekeeping.

“Someday he might discuss it,” the book says. “Someday he might tell his side of it. Someday he might play the tapes. Someday.”

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Joan Rivers earned the ire of female poker players when she went off on pro player Annie Duke on “Celebrity Apprentice” last week. Rivers, upset that Duke and Brande Roderick had conspired to boot daughter Melissa out of the show, screamed at Duke, “Poker players are trash, darling! Trash!” before calling her a “Nazi.” Rivers, who’s been receiving loads of irate e-mails, called us and said, “Oh, calm down! I said it about one person. How can I hate poker players? Did you ever look at the cards? Everyone knows I love queens. Poker playing is a very noble profession. A little-known fact is Florence Nightingale had to choose between nursing and cards.”

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Campbell said she’d boycott the Costume Institute gala at the Met last night not because rival mannequin Kate Moss was co-chairing but because her dear friend, designer Azzedine Alaia, wasn’t invited. A rep of the diva said, “Naomi, having supported this gala event for many years, planned to attend this year and even purchased a table. However, as she does not wish to be disloyal to Alaia . . .” But a spy said, “Please. She only decided not to go after Karl Lagerfeld decided against going.” We also hear that Campbell had her own “Supermodel” party Sunday night at her Time Warner Center apartment and that Vogue’s Hamish Bowles showed up “begging her to come to the Met.” Campbell’s rep didn’t comment, and a Vogue rep didn’t return calls. Meanwhile, Linda Evangelista told us, “I’m not able to attend. I will be there in spirit.”

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The supermodel gave no hint of the happy news as she left an OB/GYN office on Park Avenue yesterday with her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who was equally stone-faced. The couple (right) wed in February in LA, after dating for more than two years, and married again last month in Costa Rica with Brady’s son, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, present. Asked if Gisele was with child, a spokesman at IMG said, “We have no comment on our clients’ personal lives.”

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Cox, who is supposedly best pals with her former “Friends” co-star Jennifer Aniston, was spotted chatting with Aniston’s ex-husband Brad Pitt at a concert Sunday night. Cox was at the Wiltern Theater in LA with husband David Arquette for the final stop on rocker Chris Cornell’s Scream album tour when Pitt showed up. Our backstage spy told us, “Instead of ignoring him, Courteney chatted away with Brad all night. The three were in great spirits and seemed really happy to see each other.”

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