[Dionysius]

Reading a biography of Karen Carpenter should be mandatory for every adolescent female.

[Publius]

Reading a biography of Karen Carpenter should be mandatory for every adolescent female.

TEENAGE BOY'S REACTION: Like, dude, I woulda dated Karen Carpenter if she just lost 5 more pounds.

[68skylark]

Reading a biography of Karen Carpenter should be mandatory for every adolescent female.

But for every Karen Carpenter who kills herself with excessively low weight, aren't there a hundred who are hurting or killing themselves with excessively high weight? Shouldn't we be attacking the more serions problem first?

[Redcloak]

The problem there is that you could show these girls Carpenter's autopsy photos and they'd react with "Wow! She's so pretty!"

[Slyfox]

I think that standing at the check-out line is a visual assault to the senses. I have talked to a number of women who said that when they were holding their firstborn child at the grocery store, nothing made them more depressed than looking at the front page magazine photos of all the young skinny models. They said it made them feel fat and somewhat insecure.

I would imagine that those models are having the very same result on young teens.

[Britton J Wingfield]

If Mama Cass would have shared her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter they'd both be alive today!