“You remember how thrilling and horrifying and hilarious it is to be a pre-pubescent teen,” said Carey Peters, who dons a plaid jumper and loafers while channeling Karen Carpenter’s husky ...

Karen Carpenter enjoyed testing the limits of her ... When Karen asked for a professional drum kit as a teenager, they purchased it for her though females rarely played drums in the 1960s.

After being called chubby as a teenager, Karen Carpenter began dieting. When she slimmed down from 145 to 120 lbs., her friends and family praised her weight loss. It was only after her weight ...

The program was “The Karen Carpenter Story.” It was six years after Carpenter collapsed in her home and died from complications of anorexia nervosa. Schmidt, a pudgy teenager who was the only ...

When "The Karen Carpenter Story" finally aired New Year's Day 1989, Schmidt, then a teenager, was one of the "spellbound" viewers. In the author's note of his book, Schmidt said that during the ...

I began writing songs as a teenager hoping to ONE DAY hear Karen sing one of them. Luckily for me, I was able to hand deliver ...

The program was “The Karen Carpenter Story.” It was six years after Carpenter collapsed in her home and died from complications of anorexia nervosa. Schmidt, a pudgy teenager who was the only ...

She had been a chubby teenager and in 1973 ... In the final scene of The Karen Carpenter Story, Agnes Carpenter's character gazes affectionately up the staircase at her daughter for the last ...

Schmidt, now an elementary school music teacher in Denton, remembers being entranced as a teenager by the posthumous 1989 made-for-television movie The Karen Carpenter Story. “I fell in love ...

Although she no longer obsesses about her weight, Couric struggled with bulimia for seven or eight years, starting when she was a teenager ... "When Karen Carpenter died [of heart failure ...

Las Vegas cabaret singer Rita Lim remembers being struck by Karen Carpenter’s singing when she was in her early teens, but resisted working those songs into her repertoire years later when she ...

When "The Karen Carpenter Story" finally aired New Year's Day 1989, Schmidt, then a teenager, was one of the "spellbound" viewers. In the author's note of his book, Schmidt said that during the ...