In the immortal words of "Saved By The Bell's" resident perfectionist, Jessie Spano, "I'm So Excited... I'm So Scared!"

Scared of what you ask? Elizabeth Berkley, the actress who played Spano for the four years of SBTB's television reign, has started her own advice site for teenage girls. While there is certainly nothing wrong with wanting to help America's youth, Berkley is perhaps the last person I would think of when it comes to self-fashioning. Well, I guess that's not true. Amy Winehouse hasn't exactly been having a banner year...

Besides playing Jessie "Type-A" Spano on SBTB, Berkley is best known for her very...ahem... revealing role in the 1995 movie "Showgirls." Without going into the specifics of the soft-core porn film, suffice it to say that Berkley played an aspiring Las Vegas showgirl who scrapes by as a stripper while chasing her stage dreams. Seriously.
The film bombed and has historically been included on lists of worst films of all time, holding the record for receiving the most Razzie awards (for the worst in bad entertainment) until it was usurped in 2008 by Lindsay Lohan's horrifying horror film "I Know Who Killed Me." The fallout from the film ruined Berkley's career and only recently has she clawed her way back into legitimacy on the small screen, hosting Bravo's reality show "Step It Up and Dance" and accepting a recurring role on CSI.

Despite these career advances, I was skeptical of Berkley's abilities to counsel young girls regarding their life decisions, unless she was acting in a "cautionary tale" capacity. (It seemed a bit like Henry VIII giving out marriage advice.)

Checking out her website though, I was impressed. While I clearly don't fall into Berkley's target market -- I'd guess 11 to 14 year-old girls based on the site's color scheme-- I can appreciate the effort she's put into creating what can best be described as an online self-esteem workshop. Tween girls will be instantly attracted to the layout of the site, designed like a stereotypical girl's diary, covered in doodles of hearts and clouds and navigated by a fairy version of Berkley, complete with Tinkerbell-green wings and a magic wand. No saccharine detail has been spared and everything is bathed in pink so that one gets the impression that someone vomited Pepto Bismol all over the server. Not that that's a bad thing.

Looking beyond the cutesy details and the irritating refrain of Corrine Bailey Rae's pseudoinspirational "Like A Star" playing in the background, Berkley may be onto something. Not that the website is anything particularly innovative (how many different ways are there to tell teenage girls to eat healthily, to apply "natural" makeup and to put their girlfriends before boys?) but Berkley's story could be. Evolving from a failed teen star to a motivational figure for young girls is a tough turnaround and I'd like to give Berkley the benefit of the doubt.

If nothing else, the actress has hopefully learned a lot from her professional journey. She should at least have some solid advice to offer and I imagine she knows a thing or two about what movie offers to turn down.

However, news recently broke that Berkley will be co-starring in the upcoming "S Darko," the sequel to the 2001 cult hit "Donnie Darko." So maybe not.