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Old Dec 09, 2022, 07:41 AM
TishaBuv TishaBuv is offline
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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed View Post
I actually first learned about eating disorders from Karen Carpenter. I was 4 or so and they had an informercial for a CD set of her music. I was interested by her appeareance so I asked my mom who she was and my mom told me and then said what happened to her. My mom said "she died by sticking her fingers down her throat." Ahh how my parents were so blunt and a bit too honest with me when I was a kid.
This reminds me that I received some weird messages when Karen Carpenter died, too. It must have been my mother, though I don’t remember, who said that Karen was not pretty and that is why she struggled. Yep, this affected me.
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