Karen Carpenter Part 2 with Carolyn Kendrick

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.6 • 23K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Carolyn and Sarah follow Karen from the height of her fame through her struggle to find independence, her attempts at eating disorder recovery, and finally to her death on February 4, 1983, when she was just 32 years old. Then it's time to sing a song.

We extensively discuss eating disorders, disordered eating, and everything that goes with them in this episode. Please listen with care.

If you want to learn more, try Little Girl Blue by Randy L. Schmidt, our primary source for the information in this episode.

Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter - Randy L. Schmidt - Google Books

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0:00.0	Just because we're sober, we don't have to play board games. We don't have to
0:04.8	give into that stereotype.
0:16.9	Welcome to You Wrong About it. I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are bringing you
0:21.5	part two of the Karen Carpenter story, which I am telling you along with my
0:26.8	wonderful producer and co-host for these episodes, Carolyn Kendrick, who you will
0:31.4	hear from in a minute. This episode has a gigantic trigger warning attached
0:36.6	to it because we are now talking about Karen Carpenter and her eating disorder
0:43.2	and her methods within that eating disorder and just getting into a lot of the
0:48.7	details of it and ultimately her death as a result of it. This might not be the
0:55.4	right episode for you and if you do choose to proceed, maybe take a nice walk if
1:00.9	you can while you listen. We have a bonus episode coming out in the normal
1:06.1	places, Patreon and ApplePlus subscriptions with the wonderful Evelyn Lee who
1:11.4	will be talking about the wave of Anne Hathaway hate that swept America. If
1:17.6	you were there, you remember it's a national issue that I was very happy to
1:24.2	get the full story on. So we also have that for you this week. Thank you so much
1:28.5	for joining us. Take care listening. Take care generally. Here's the episode.
1:39.4	Welcome to You Wrong About the podcast where we tell you what Mark McGrath
1:45.0	didn't on VH1. You're welcome. And with me today is Carolyn Kendrick. Hello.
1:52.2	Hello, Sarah Marshall. I'm so happy to be back. Something interesting is
1:56.7	happening with this show lately where in the beginning the purpose of You Wrong
2:01.7	About was for me anyway to talk about moral panics and tabloid women because
2:07.6	those were really my passions and that was what I spent my time thinking about
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