Of the 2,000 girls who took part, only eight per cent were happy with their bodies.
Four in ten had considered plastic surgery, while a third thought that they were overweight.
There is no simple explanation of why young people may be unhappy with the way they look. They may be influenced by the attitudes of the adults around them - particularly parents who are themselves unhappy with their looks - or their confidence may be affected by the physical changes of adolescence. But as the Bliss survey implies, media images also have an important part to play.
A significant number of girls feel under pressure from the apparently perfect bodies of celebrities, with many believing that boys increasingly expect them to have the same supermodel looks.
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