Eating disorders are one of the most common psychosomatic illnesses among girls and young women in western industrial countries. This study aims at giving a voice to girls currently receiving therapy for an eating disorder. Our informants were n=95 girls between 11 and 18 years of age. They filled out questionnaires with open and standardized questions regarding the role of TV shows in the context of the participants’ eating disorders. There was one program mentioned, unprompted, above all others: Germany’s Next Topmodel (GNTM). It fosters unrealistic standards and body dissatisfaction when the girls started to compare every detail of their body with the candidates’ bodies. They adopt the implicit logic of the format and disconnect from their own perceptions, feelings and needs in order to succeed. If this happens at a time of identity crisis and among girls with corresponding psychological dispositions it can lead to an eating disorder.