Fashion industry to blame for suicide of schoolgirl, rules coroner Mr Rose said: "Professor Bryan Lask said to me that the prevalence of eating disorders around young people did not exist before the 1970s. From that period onwards the fashion industry, particularly magazines, promoted the thin figure. I do ask for magazines that trade in the fashion industry to stop publishing photographs of wafer thin girls. For their vanity families like this suffer. Mr Rose added:"This is one of the most tragic cases to come before me over the four decades I have sat in Taunton." Her parents were planning to move Fiona and her older sister away to Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire when she killed herself. The inquest heard Fiona weighed about 60kg and a letter from her GP to a community mental health team stated:"She says she started doing this following taunts from girls because she is fat." Later in June Fiona wrote an English school essay about eating disorders and self loathing - but the essay was not brought to the attention of her mother or father. Headteacher Richard Biggs said of the essay:"With hindsight I wish we had (alerted her parents) but I understand the reasons that resulted in them not doing it." He added that staff believed Fiona was still receiving treatment with community health team and said eating disorders were a common topic at that time due to the movie The Black Swan. Verdict: Misadventure. ends