Emma Roberts is fabulous: mean girls, braces, braving a 14th birthday without ever being kissed. Sound like your life? Read on. Emma Roberts has eight rules for any girl to get fabulous. Starting now.

Fabulous isn't easy. Especially as the indignities of being a teen keep mounting. Seventh-grader Addie Singer is braving them all, one episode at a time. And when things are not fabulous, Addie writes a song.

Isn't it a relief to know the Unfabulous star, 13-year-old Emma Roberts, who is releasing her first CD this month, is not a privileged Hollywood starlet immune to the mortifying moments of Addie's life, of your life? No teen gets an Unfab pass card. Not even if your aunt is Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts. It's the law of being a teen: Your choices include grande embarrassment or venti embarrassment. Teenaccino.

Take, for example, braces, which Emma just got. Even when you are finally done with your orthodontics, the lisp-making retainer makth it hard to talk to boyth, which luckily most girls don't do much since boys would rather record burps on their iPods. And the teengirl truncheon gets worse.

Like in the hideous but funny episode "Kissed List," touching tongues with a guy determines your cool factor. In some schools, maybe even yours, if you haven't Frenched someone (viewed by at least three witnesses) before your 14th birthday, then you're clearly not with the program. What cave-clan member made up that rule?

This is why a show like Unfabulous with its down-to-earth star is so great--all the awkwardness of junior high and high school is easier to deal with if you can laugh at it for a minute.

Fab. Not lab. This is the stuff you face, what Emma faces, fortunately with tons more grace than her on-screen counterpart. In fact, that's why we're here. Emma's totally outgoing with an impressive self-assured maturity and, yes, fabulousness about her. So we asked her to share her secrets to staying cool, fashionable and real, no matter what's up in the world around her. Check her out. The girl's got it....

FOLLOW NO FASHION ROLES "The cool thing about fashion is that even though every magazine has fashion rules, there are really no rules to fashion as long as you do what you want and you're comfortable and into it. Like on the show, it's funny because I don't like wearing coats or sweaters [in real life], and they're always putting me in that stuff because Unfabulous is supposed to take place on the East Coast. So my outfits are a blend of what I wear. Fabulous people have their own kind of style."

PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS "My favorite thing is purses. I love purses. I'm also really starting to get into jewelry. I wear a bunch of different earrings. My favorites are these little guitar earrings that hang down. I got a pair of rhinestone heart earrings and crown earrings. And I love gems. I love a lot of glittery stuff. You can make stuff just for you. I have a Mac laptop [computer], and I went to a bead store [on the internet] and got some really cute rhinestones. I outlined the apple on the top and filled it in so the apple is all rhinestones. It looks really cute."

A SMILE IS YOUR BEST BEAUTY SECRET "I've been procrastinating on my braces for a long time because it never seemed like a good time to get them. I was always working and stuff like that. So, finally, my morn and I were like, we have to do this. I got these braces that go behind the teeth. You can't see them at all. For the first few days, I couldn't talk at all and, even now when I talk, my tongue gets cut. But they're removable. I took them out the other day, but then I forgot I put the braces back in, and I was like 'Oh my gosh! My braces!' And everyone was like, 'All right, Emma!' I have to wear them for two and a half years, but that's OK. It's your smile."

GET YOURSELF SOME GUY FRIENDS "It's great to have both boy and girl friends. You don't want to have just all girl friends or just all guy friends. I'm friends with a bunch of guys near my house, and I'm also friends with a lot of the guys on Unfabulous. We all hang around and get along great. Yesterday, I had to do a scene with Malese [Jow], who plays Geena, and Jordan [Calloway], who plays Zach. Malese and I were sitting at a table, and Jordan had to come in on a pogo stick. He accidentally fell on the table--he wasn't supposed to Fall. It was so funny! He was just laughing, then he got up and did it again. Boys are funny like that. It's good to have variety. And you can learn different things from a guy friend than you'd learn from a girl friend."

TREAT SCHOOL LIKE A JOB YOU LOVE "School is something you have to do, and it's not going to go away. So you have to make it fun. I used to complain when I was younger, but now I don't. The hardest part for me is getting up early, because I like to sleep late. English is one of my good subjects but this year and last year I had a hard time with science and math because they don't really interest me too much--I don't understand those subjects. What I did was ask for extra help, and I tried to study extra hard. My teacher made it fun by doing experiments with me or putting math into perspective by making it real life, like when you're buying something at a store. School's not so bad. And, if nothing else, you get to see your friends."

BABYSIT WITH STYLE "I really like to babysit. Make sure there are a lot of toys to play with because kids can get bored easily. I watch my sister and, mostly, we'll play whatever she wants to play, usually Barbies. We watch TV and do what she wants to do. Grace is funny--she always runs around, singing songs. Sometimes she acts kind of mean just to get attention or to get a laugh. I haven't seen her all day long, and she'll say, 'Hi, want a hug?' then say, 'No, sorry!' and laugh and run away."

KISS BOYS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO "The first kiss? I've never been in that situation yet. I think, for some people, the pressure from friends to get it over with is realistic. I don't think my friends would pressure me if I didn't want to. If that's the case for you, I think you should just do what you think. I'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon."

TAKE LOTS OF VACATIONS "I like school and I like to work, but it's fun to have a break. It makes you do better at school and other stuff if you take time off. I like going to camp because I get to meet people from all over and learn a lot of new stuff. This summer, I learned how to waterski and stuff like that. And when I'm at camp, I have an excuse not to do stuff every day, like, 'Emma, you have a photo shoot!' I'm like, 'Nope, I'm at camp.' You also learn stuff about yourself when you're away. I went on a bike trip this year, and I didn't think it was going to be that far and it was really Far, so I learned that I could do more than I thought I could."

APPRECIATE YOUR FAMILY "A lot of people ask me about my aunt [Julia Roberts]. If I had a penny for every time someone asked me about her, I'd have a lot of pennies. No one's ever asked what I would tell my sister Grace, who's 4, if I got famous and, 13 years later, she had her own show. I would probably tell her ... Hmmm, that's a tough one. I would tell her to do what she loves to do. I think she's going to be a singer because all she does is sing. She would need to know that I would be there for her."

DREAM BIG "I've never been trained in singing but, ever since I was little, I would sing in front of the camera. I knew I'd be a Fashion designer or an actress. I hope to have my own line of clothing. I'd do a line of cute tops, pants and bags, and a line of evening gowns that people would wear to the Oscars."

And, somehow, GL is fairly certain Emma will be making her Academy Award acceptance speech one day (clad in one of her own designs, of course).