It is a typically busy day on a phone-in radio show where the topics of conversation are wide and varied. But when one young girl phones in to talk to her about her relationship it is not the story and type of conversation that Angie is expecting or had to date experienced on
the show.
The young woman tells Angie about how she is forced into having sex, not just with her boyfriend but with all of his friends too.

As a result of the horror and disbelief that this conversation engendered Angie, a mother herself, was moved to use her skills as a writer, director and producer to create a forum for that young girl and the many like her to be able to discuss thoughts, feelings and emotions and share experiences. To provide a safe space for the young women who still don't have the right tools to get them through life, who lack the confidence to say „no!, who have low self esteem and live in fear and who can't even share that with their own mothers.

Out of a desire to do something and the obvious need that the young woman's call for help identified, The Beautiful Daughters Project was born.

“Our daughters are under serious pressure to conform to a sexualized society who sometimes sees them as objects. I have taken workshops in schools for years and have witnessed the low self esteem and lack of direction of some of the young women who are growing up with not enough tools to get through life. The Beautiful Daughters Project is about getting us all to talk honestly and openly about the peer pressure on our young girls today, and to ask what we are doing to support and protect them”

Angie Le Mar