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Fashion Club
Natalie Sparrow, left, owner of Ultimate Model and Talent Management, shows 16-year-old Cassie Bjerke how to apply blush during a weekly Fashion Club meeting for teen and pre-teen girls to learn about healthy body image and pick up fashion, hair and makeup tips. Bjerke feels her confidence tumble as she watches "America's Next Top Model" or pages through Vogue magazine, where everyone is very tall and very skinny. Bjerke signed up as a model with Sparrow's agency in January 2007. "I think Natalie [Sparrow] really knows that as a teenager it's hard to go through life without worrying about how you look," she says. "She knows everyone thinks, 'Oh, I wish I was a little bit prettier or a little bit thinner.'"