While CGG was in LA this weekend, we picked up Sunday’s LA Times and read a surprising article about Elizabeth Berkeley, host of Bravo’s new show “Step It Up & Dance” (it premieres on Thursday). The piece also gave the lowdown on the star’s big sister-like web site, ask-elizabeth.com, which promotes self-esteem among teen and tween girls.

Why is this so surprising? Well, as your older brothers and sisters (and probably even your parents) will tell you, Elizabeth is probably best known as the girl with the perfect body in the ridiculous film (and cult fave) Showgirls. So what does this chick, who also played a hottie on 90s kid-com Saved By the Bell, know about about poor body image?

Turns out, quite a lot. As the non-drinking, non-smoking, pretty-much-vegetarian Elizabeth tells the Times, at Ask Elizabeth:

“We deal with a lot of really intense issues. It can get pretty deep – body image, health, fitness, goalsetting, family, you name it. . . It’s a sisterhood, if you will.” (source)

Ask-elizabeth.com is adorable, if on the young side; it’s very pink, there are diaries and lockets, as well as Elizabeth illustrated as a Tinkerbell-like figure. (“I wanted to create a place that feels very magical,” she explains.) However, the message is as clear as black and white: Her mission – and Ask Elizabeth’s mission – is to be “a forum for you to anonymously ask your deepest questions on themes ranging from body image, fitness, beauty, friendship, health, boys, family, goals, etc.” (source)

Elizabeth adds that she’s in negotiations right now “to take the seed of the work that I do into a documentary show with MTV. It’s going to be pretty powerful.” (source)

So next time your brothers or sisters refer to Elizabeth Berkeley as “the chick who was buck-naked in Showgirls,” remind them that the actress has a new, more important role: as a Celeb Gone Good.