Karen Carpenter

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by firebunny on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 and has 12 replies.

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Such an amazing talent but was battling a terrible depression. Did anybody of you grow up watching her on TV while she was still alive? Was it obvious that she was having a terrible eating disorder?

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Posted by firebunny
What was it like to live through the 70s? I'm seeing a lot of clothes and hair style s that are out of this world.

Different but I was born in 71, don't recall much of the early years 😆

Parents were hippies and grew pot. Tie dye was huge, bell bottoms too, KISS, black sabbath, zeppelin all the big names in rock music.

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Uggghh. How frustrating! Do you have childhood pics? I wanna see you wearing extremely long socks and long hair with some curls. Ooooohhhh... Brady Bunch! Did you have the Brady Bunch look as a kid?

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I wasn't born then, but my folks would always talk about The Carpenters when I was growing up (their wedding song was "We've Only Just Begun"). That's how I learned about anorexia & other eating disorders.

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Posted by UrsaMediocre
I wasn't born then, but my folks would always talk about The Carpenters when I was growing up (their wedding song was "We've Only Just Begun"). That's how I learned about anorexia & other eating disorders.

Yeah I learnt about anorexia the same way. Mum was and is still a big Carpenters fan.

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her chart is similar to Whitney Houston, i just noticed. 😢

needing other people's love and attention, but something else. not because she didnt get love from the public because she did ...she got ALOT.

there's this empty hole inside them. It may be relating to their childhood. i haven't delved into their childhood.

but apparantly she is STARVED of love..

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/24/karen-carpenter-anorexia-book-extract