Head girl, 17, died weighing just six stone after trying to hide four-year battle with anorexia from her parents
A former head girl died aged 17 after struggling with anorexia for four years.
Charlotte Seddon, who was described as ‘intelligent, self-assured and popular’, tried to hide the effects of the illness from her parents.
She only revealed her true feelings in her journals, which were discovered after her death, an inquest heard.
Charlotte wrote how she felt trapped in a cycle of losing weight, exercise, calorie counting, bouts of depression and purging herself.
The teenager would refuse to have dinner with her family, claiming she had already eaten, but then would go without food.
Despite her illness, Charlotte, who had a twin sister, Abby, won many awards at school, including student of the year after achieving the best GCSE results of her peers at Shuttleworth College in Padiham, Lancashire.
In her final year at school she was also head girl, and was nominated for the Young Burnley Achiever Award for her voluntary work.
When she died last November, Charlotte weighed only six stone and had a seriously weakened heart, the inquest heard.
She had been discharged from an inpatient clinic only a few days before.
