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This article is about recent study by Dirk Smeesters and colleagues into the effect of body images in advertisement on the self-esteem of young women. Their research reveals, significantly, that advertisements featuring plus-size models can have as damaging as effect to a woman's self-esteem as ads featuring extremely thin models.

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