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Thomas in St.

Paul.

Sigler's talk, "Wise Girl: What I Learned About Life, Love and Loss," begins at 7 p.m.

in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium.

The talk is free.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, call Jennifer Perusek, chairwoman of the University Lectures Committee, at 651-962-6136.

Send western Wisconsin events to John Brewer, 345 Cedar St., St.

Paul, MN 55101, fax to 651-228-5500 or e-mail jbrewer@pioneerpress.com.

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...ba href=/eating disorder/a/b, and was over very quickly.

But my daughters and their friends have skinny role models such as Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Girls Aloud.

The more successful these girls get, the more emaciated they appear.

You're not telling me any one of them would give two hoots if their boyfriends said they would fancy them more if there were more of them to fancy.

Meanwhile, this study of self-esteem in girls and young women has found that by the age of 16 nine out of ten desperately want to change the way they look.

A startling quarter of them would go so far as having plastic surgery.

Just as worrying, it says that a third of girls aged between 15 and 17 won't go to the beach or pool because they can't bear the way they look in a swimming costume.

The thought of my girls having similar crises of confidence at that age horrifies me.

Whether they're a downy size 8 or voluptuous 16, I hope they spend their teens celebrating the beauty of their youth.

'So who is to blame?

' I would much rather see them showing off on the beach, whatever their shape or size, than skulking behind an oversized robe in case somebody judges them for the way they look.

So who is to blame for the production of this generation of girls weighed down with the burden of self-loathing?

First in the dock are the glossy magazines that unashamedly equate beauty with slenderness and which our daughters (and we, their mothers) eagerly devour.

And surely we must blame a government that pushes trend...

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