Fiona Geraghty was a bright and beautiful 14 year old. She was found in her home, dead, on July 14, 2011. The young teenager resorted to taking her own life after she developed an eating disorder, and was being taunted by her peers. The thought of her not being thin enough tore her life apart. Fiona’s parents claimed that her eating disorder stemmed from the cruel insults from her classmates. However, the coroner, believes that the main culprit is the fashion industry, and how the media portrays women (Adams, 2012). Today, eating disorders are on the rise. The fashion industry, and the way the media presents women, gives young girls a false image of an ideal body. People are surrounded by the thin, and beautiful faces, and bodies of celebrities. This gives girls the impression that they must be thin, in order to fit into society. To attain this, they take drastic measures to change the way they look. The National Institute of Mental Health defines eating disorders as an illness that causes serious disturbances to your everyday diet; this includes eating extremely small amounts of food, or severely overeating. According the the National Institute of Mental Health, there are 3 different types of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorders. People who are diagnosed with anorexia nervosa are mostly underweight, and they firmly believe that they are overweight. They look at themselves in the mirror and see a distorted body figure that they are unsatisfied with. As a result, their self esteem is heavily influenced, and they try to change their bodies. People with anorexia, often eat very small amounts of food and they restrict their food intake (Nordqvist, 2013). They constantly weigh themselves, having the intense fear of gaining even the slightest of weight. As the disorder progresses, other symptoms may start to develop. These other symptoms include losing hair, bone loss, low blood pressure, brain d