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Feb 4, 2015 · The lead singer of The Carpenters, the Grammy-winning band she’d formed with her brother, died on this day, Feb. 4, in 1983, of heart failure related to her years-long struggle with anorexia....
Oct 31, 2023 · New details about Karen Carpenter's struggle with anorexia revealed in book 'Lead Sister' by Lucy O'Brien. Read an excerpt.
Nov 29, 2010 · The real reason Karen Carpenter was driven to anorexia. A new book lifts the lid on how the 1970s pop sensation was denied the love she craved from her mother, writes Edel Coffey
In 1975, Carpenter started exhibiting symptoms of anorexia nervosa due to the severe pressures of fame and her complicated family dynamics.
Jan 30, 2023 · And on Feb. 4, 1983, Karen Carpenter died at the age of 32. Her official cause of death was “emetine cardiotoxicity due to or as a consequence of anorexia nervosa.”. In other words, Karen, in her desperate battle with her eating disorder, had poised herself to death with ipecac syrup.
Nov 7, 2023 · It details how, just a year before she died, Karen Carpenter went into treatment. “Anorexia had become a tyrannical force in Karen’s psyche, telling her that food was an enemy to be...
Nov 13, 2009 · Karen Carpenter, a singer who long suffered under the burden of the expectations that came with pop stardom, died on February 4, 1983, succumbing to heart failure brought on by her long,...
