“Do you remember Karen Carpenter of “The Carpenters”? She had a beautiful voice and she died of this!!!”
The selfish nutcase. Deprived us all of that beautiful voice because she wouldn’t just eat a sandwich.
Karen Carpenter was one of the first people to die of this that we know if. Until her death we did not know much about it and not much attention was paid to anorexia nervosa. Karen’s death brought it the attention that it needed.
I remember it happening, and all the articles about anorexia nervosa that followed her death.
You want to know what the real problem was? I read articles of teen girls who wanted to know HOW Karen did what she did so they could lose weight. They would read article after article on anorexia nervosa and do what Karen and others had done. Not making this up.
Another famous person to have had it? Cherry Boone O’Neil.
These girls feel like they “have control of their bodies” when really they have no control, and with anorexia they are out of control.
Our society has said that a beautiful woman is a thin one and these woman are pushing themselves to be that. There are women in certain cultures and time periods where rolls of fat on a woman was considered a sign of wealth and beauty but in or day and age every woman must look like the model Twiggy or she’s just ugly. Now we are upset with her that she gets this illness?
Enough already!
(Karen Carpenter) Deprived us all of that beautiful voice”
I know. I cried when she died, and I cried when Andrew Breitbart died. And my cats. That’s it.
The really sad thing is that everyone was pretty sure was in a good recovery when she died. But the damage to her heart had been done during the years before. Besides the non-eating of anorexia, she had been chowing down on ExLax. Also, somehow she’d scored something else — I think for thyroid (she had no thyroid problems) — which kept her weight down. A real mess. The best voice ever.
“Deprived us all of that beautiful voice because she wouldn’t just eat a sandwich.”
And Cass Elliott (another exceptional voice, if not Karen Carpenter class) died because she did eat a sandwich.