Elizabeth Berkley eventually joined the multitude of celebrities who decided to become published authors. The only difference between her book and the many others released, however, was that her’s was actually a hit.
Berkley published her book “Ask Elizabeth: Real Answers to Everything You Secretly Wanted to Ask About Love, Friends, Your Body … and Life in General” in 2011, a self-help book written in the form of diary-like entries designed to help teenage girls answer all their burning questions. The actor was inspired to write the book after “Saved by the Bell” went into international syndication and she had started to get stopped in public, especially by the younger generation, looking for advice. Eventually, she started her own “Ask Elizabeth” workshops, which morphed into a website and later the book.
“Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they’re dealing with,” Berkley told Entertainment Weekly. “But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, ‘Wow, I’d love to create something.'” Fortunately for her, “Ask Elizabeth” was a success story, garnering positive reviews. “I wanted it to feel like I wrote a book and passed it across the country and had girls tape in, glue in, staple in pieces,” she explained. “It was this community of, I call it different heartbeats on every page.”
