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/^t/The negative effect of modern advertising is particularly visible in young girls' lives who search for examples to follow. Looking for such role models they come across TV commercials with unbelievably beautiful and unnaturally thin models. The increasing numbers of occurances of teenage girls, but also prown-up women, suffering from anorexia and bulimia, or other eating disorders, may have its source in the mismatch between the image of perfect womanhood promoted by commercial specialists and the girls' own looks and desires. Perfect breasts, flawless skin, gleaming hair, slim legs - one after another these fetishes accumulate until the chief mantra for the modern teenager becomes 'I hate mu body'. Targeted by commercial and pop culture they live with a nonstop 'voice-over' criticising what they eat and hoe they look. Pathological insecurity has become a feminine reflex.