How is media affecting eating disorders?

You can find good-looking people on most of the ads, tv-shows, magazines, commercials and also in news. From the beginning of their life the majority of children are taught by society that their looks make a difference, are relevant and matter. “Pretty” kids get more attention than other kids from maybe family members by calling them cute or adorable. This is continuous and lasts for years; they get older knowing that they are good-looking and unconsciously feeling superior somehow than someone who isn’t as attractive. So this necessity of being good-looking is grown in to people since early-on. Following the CSUN website the number of hours per day that the TV is on in an average U.S. home is of 6 hours and 47 minutes. With an increased population of children who spend a lot of time in front of television, there are more superficial ideas and concepts of how the should be like and how they should look like. TV-Shows and commercials on the television spend countless hours telling us to be thin, look beautiful, lose weight, buy more things that make us look better for people to like us. These programs rarely depict men and women with "average" body-figures and cheap simple clothes, ingraining in the back of all our heads that this is the type of life we should have and want. Overweight characters are typically portrayed as slothful, lonely, or "the bad guy", while skinny women and buff men are the popular, prosperous, sexy and powerful ones who frequently everyone like. How could we tell a person suffering from anorexia or people in general that what counts is on the inside when media is contradicting this entirely?