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In the recently published book biography with the characteristic title "Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter" was published a number of frosty details about the late period of life of the famous American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, who together with her older brother Richard formed a very popular music duo at the time The Carpenters. This pair of musicians sold more than 100 million albums across the world. However, Karen has been dealing with her character all her life, and she started with diets already in high school, but later she became the victim of anorexia mental, which completely absorbed this talented singer and musician.

One of the most famous music groups of the 1970s

Despite all the health problems associated with her mental anorexia, she and her brother really managed to break through the music show of business and became one with one
Of the most famous music groups in the United States, and even managed to win the Grammy Award three times. A great moment in the life of Karen Carpenter was the fact that she realized her problem and health problems and tried to solve them. It was 1982 and the singer moved to the famous City Regency Hotel in New York to undergo a half -year intensive therapy with a recognized psychotherapist Steven Levenkron.

This psychotherapist in the United States is really a concept and is evidenced by the fact that he charged one hundred US dollars for one session, which was really a lot of money in the early 1980s. Levenkron, however, soon revealed the very unpleasant procedures that the singer tried to speed up her weight loss. It turned out that Karen Carpenter uses a large number of pills called Synthroid, which are prescription medicines and help thyroid problems. The singer tried to speed up her metabolism and thus promote weight loss.

Psychotherapist Steven Levenkron, however, was literally horrified and immediately realized that this is a really serious problem that can have immense health consequences. Excessive consumption of this drug can also cause a heart attack. Levenkron thus decided to disable this drug consumption, but Karen was not a bit enthusiastic about it and thought the psychotherapist simply exaggerated and was just exaggerating the matter. It was apparently that the singer had other problems in addition to anorexia problems, and with addiction.

Great health problems and fight and life

Although the advice of the psychotherapist took the singer lightly, she began to feel the first health problems in the same year, specifically with the heart, and in a short time she had to be hospitalized in the intensive care unit in Lenoxhill in New York. She was admitted to the hospital in a very bad condition and weighed an incredible 35 kilograms. Her stomach was in such a bad condition that she had to receive only intravenous nutrition.

In the hospital, however, Karen helped doctors to save and after some time began to take food on the hospital bed in a common way and also managed to gain back 7 kilograms. Her condition gradually improved and within a few months she managed to gain a total of 10 kilograms and got a less life threatening the weight of 45 kilograms. After returning from the hospital, she decided to revise her life so far and her husband had taken it, with whom she decided to divorce after 3 years of marriage.

The singer planned to restart her musical career and all her lifestyle a year after her hospitalization in the hospital. The last time Karen Carpenter was seen in public with his brother in 1983, when they took part in the Grammy Awards. At that time, the siblings were preparing for a big concert tour of the United States. However, this has never happened again. In February 1983, the singer collapsed on the floor in her house and the summoned rescuers declared her dead after being transported to the hospital.