Eating Disorder
It wasn’t only exercise that Karen was overdoing. Her diet was also in a terrible state. Whenever she ate with her friends and family, they noticed that she never really ate but only subtly played around with her food so that it looks like she was eating. She also tried to reduce the portion of her meal by offering it to her companions! Her mother was not fooled, however, and did the same thing to her.
Trying To Conceal
When her weight was spiraling below 90 pounds, she had to put effort into hiding that there was something wrong. When it came to her wardrobe, Karen tried to hide her body by putting on as many layers of clothes as possible. Her agent Sherwin Bash saw through the trick. “She would start with a long-sleeved shirt and then put a blouse over that,” he explained, “and a sweater over that and a jacket over that… With all of it you had no idea of what she had become.”