A Variety review of one performance, cited by Schmidt, complained, “She is terribly thin, almost a wraith, and should be gowned more becomingly.” Read the full review of The Karen Carpenter St ...

Singer Karen Carpenter passed away 40 years ago at the ... she was using laxatives to purge her body of food and stay thin. She also admitted to abusing a thyroid medication to boost her metabolism.

Karen Carpenter’s tragic death marked the beginning of greater awareness ... Women generally feel pressured to stay thin so that they can be projected as a glamourized version of a Barbie doll ...

Instead, viewers saw a painfully thin, gaunt and fragile-looking Karen ... That awkward BBC encounter is re-shown in the documentary film, Karen Carpenter: Starving For Perfection, which reveals ...

The one thing Karen Carpenter knew she could control was her weight. Never a skinny child or young adult, she was conscious of the way she looked and was dieting obsessively by the mid-1970s.

Despite his concerns about how thin she was, she refused to discuss ... Lead Sister: The Story Of Karen Carpenter (Nine Eight Books, £20) is published on Thursday. For free UK P&P, visit ...

"Like so many women of our generation, I aspired to be thin and lanky and all the things ... how dangerous it was," says Couric. "When Karen Carpenter died [of heart failure caused by years ...

With Karen already dangerously thin (accounts from the time claim she ... sister's behalf and it continues to showcase a side of Karen Carpenter utterly at odds with the lovelorn innocence of ...

Karen Carpenter had one of the greatest voices of ... in fact, possible to be too thin. After her death, a number of public figures shared their own struggles with anorexia and bulimia, most ...