COSMO'S GUIDE FOR THE BUSH GIRLS.

Sweet-as-pie Chelsea escaped the spotlight, but George's twins, Barbara and Jenna, are ready for their close-up. Here, a report on their first 100 days and a few pointers on how they can handle the hurdles ahead--winningly!

* Picture this: You're going away to college and are supcrpsyched about your new freedom. But suddenly everything changes: You're going to have large men with earpieces looming around you 24-7, your dorkiest moves maybe captured on film for the world to see, and everyone will recognize (and possibly hate) you before they even get to know you. Sound like a nightmare? It could be reality for the Presiden'ts daughters.

Maybe that's why Jenna and Barbara Bush, the 19-year-old twins of George W Bush, reportedly cried when their dad first discussed running for the highest office in the land. While the job would undoubtedly bring them huge perks--jetting around on Air Force One, watching the latest flicks in the White House screening room, meeting young international royal studs--they knew it would also be a huge pain in the butt. When he eventually did announce his candidacy, Bush said: "One of my greatest hesitancies about making this race is that I really don't want [my daughters'] lives to be affected by me, and I know they're going to be."

Up until now, the Bushes have been successful in shielding their daughters from the public eye--they weren't filmed for their father's commercials, and in their rare appearances on the campaign trail, they stayed in the background. Not that we wouldn't want them to strut their stuff a little more. Unlike Chelsea Clinton, who arrived at the White House at the impossibly awkward age of 12, Barbara and Jenna are technically adults and are apparently very stylish and fun-loving, Unfortunately for them, their maturity may also prove to be a disadvantagde--Chelsea was protected because she was a minor. R.G. Ratcliffe, a state political reporter for the Houston Chronicle who has covered the Bushes, believes that the Clinton's behavior--demanding Chelsea be left alone only to trot her out for her mother's Senate campaign--may backfire on the Bushes if they make similar requests. "There's a frustration among the Washington press corps that in the past we may have been too soft on Presidential children," says Ratecliffe.

In other words, Barbara and Jenna can forget about remaining as unscrutinized as Chelsea was. Cosmo checked in to see how the Bush twins have been dealing with the first few months of First Daughterhood--and has collected invaluable advice for them to use as they steer their way through the next four (or eight) years.

PRIVACY PARTYING, AND THE PRESS

Jenna and Barbara, who were born on November 25, 1981, and were named after their grandmothers, are the first twins to inhabit the White House. Being fraternal twins, they look nothing alike (Jenna's the blond; Barbara's the brunette), and their personalities are equally diverse. Barbara's more reserved--" "more taciturn, but with a twinkle in her eye," says Susanne Broussard, a former teacher of theirs at the Hockaday School in Dallas. Midway through the seventh grade, they moved to Austin when their father was elected Governor and went to a public high school, where Barbara got straight As and was homecoming queen and where Jenna wrote for the school newspaper and worked at a local clothing boutique. The choices they made last year about where to go to college further illustrate their differences: Barbara's at Yale, making her the fourth generation of bushes to attend the rigorous Ivy League school, while Jenna preferred to stay closer to home by going to the University of Texas at Austin.