http://antisocialbehavioringirls.blogspot.com/2012/03/statistics.html

Above is a link to a website I found while searching for statistics on teenage girls and the way women and girls are portrayed in the media and the effects it has on the viewers (young girls). I found some interesting stuff on this website, in a survey of 9-10 year olds, 40% of them have tried to lose weight, due to the media. Another mind boggling statistic is that nearly 1000 teenage girls die each year from anorexia due to dissatisfaction with their bodies. The link also says that 8,000,000 people in the United States of America have an eating disorder and that nearly 90% of them are female.

An interesting fact I found on here is this, "Another side effect caused by images portrayed in the media of girls is over eating. Girls see these images and may realize that they do not look like that, and may never look like that, and they over eat. This causes them to gain weight, which makes them even more sad as they realize that they are farther away from "perfect." This sadness causes more eating, which leads to obesity." This to me just shows that everyone deals with their problems in a different way and it's sad that such a problem has to happen because of what people put in the media and advertisements for capital gain.