By Briyah Paley

Fresh from presenting at the Grammy Awards, Jamie-Lynn Sigler was on hand to talk about her experience with eating disorders at Harvard University on Monday night for the Harvard Eating Disorders Center Public Forum.

The star, made famous by her role as Meadow on the HBO television show “The Sopranos,” was also in town to promote her new book, “Wise Girl: What I’ve learned about Life, Love, and Loss.”

The 21-year-old Sigler was born in Queens, New York where she lived for a short time before her family moved to Long Island. Her mother, a Cuban immigrant, and her father, of Greek descent, raised their children in a loving home where show business seemed to run in the family.

“My older brother wanted to be a movie director and my other brother and I would star in his movies,” she said.

Besides acting, Sigler began to pursue a singing career.

She first performed in front of an audience when she played the title role in the musical “Annie” at nine years old.

“I started to fall in love with performing,” she said.

But success didn’t come without a few letdowns. Sigler got rejected after auditioning for “Les Miserables” on Broadway, and only recently did she make her Broadway debut as Belle in “Beauty and the Beast,” a role she finished playing three weeks ago.

In fact, when her manager called her about “The Sopranos” audition, there was a slight misunderstanding.

“I thought, well, maybe I’ll go ’cause it’s sopranos, so it’s obviously musical,” Sigler said. The pilot was filmed during the summer, and she had a great time being in it. However, at the end of filming, it seemed the show wouldn’t get picked up to air on television, so Sigler began to get ready for her junior year of high school.

That’s when the trouble began.

After a boyfriend broke up with her, she began to question her appearance and she started to develop an eating disorder. This is the subject of her book, “Wise Girl,” which anecdotes her battle with exercise bulimia.

Now that Sigler has been on the road to recovery for a few years — although she says she’ll always have the illness in her, like a “scar” — she has written her story and is giving speeches in order to help anyone she can. She is now the spokesperson for the National Eating Disorders Association.

“I came out about it to help myself and to help other people,” she said.

The actress/singer has been quite busy lately. Last year, she released her first CD, “Here to Heaven,” and she has finished filming “Extreme Dating,” coming out this year.

On top of all that, next month she returns to “The Sopranos” while planning a summer wedding to manager-fianc