Karen Carpenter Was Found Dead By Her Estranged Mother - Here's Her Life Story

[@Autshot20]

When of the most beautiful female voices ever recorded. On many of her songs, her voice sounds just as about as perfect as a voice can sound. RIP Karen.

[@greta3315]

Resquiecat in pace Karen. We will always love you

[@mucf9961]

Voice of an angel 😇

[@happiness5556]

Aloha dear Karen. Beautiful singing, beautiful person, and we really miss you. I listen to you sing and perform on my iPhone at least once per day! Rest in peace. Until we meet again…

[@annrodriguez2891]

Karen Carpenter..the absolute best female vocalist EVER...that is why we all love her...No voice as smooth as warm honey on a sunshiney day...I was 16 when she died ..and I am so disturbed by her suffering...but I know God has her singing with the angels...she was so beautiful

[@SusanGray-p1p]

Loved to hear Karen sing! Such a great loss the day she passed. Never to be forgotten! Beautiful inside and outside. If only she could have seem that for herself. To many people let her down. My favorite song was Close To You! ❤❤ ❤

[@deborahjesser2028]

She died in Downey hospital California. I worked there and I knew people that were there when she died and the whole hospital was affected by the experience.

[@michelledesgroseilliers2956]

She literally had one of the most beautiful voices of all time! RIP Karen. Her story is so sad.

[@DeborahWitt-rx7je]

She had the most beautiful voice ever recorded.if she had more support from her mother she might of been able to pull through that horrible eating disorder.

[@ginac895]

Poor Karen, she had the worst mother. Cold, distant, no interest in her daughter and showed it. Karen”s brother was selfish, not encouraging her to make her solo album was in his best interest. Karen deserved better. RIP

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@happiness5556]

♥️

[@melgrant7404]

Agree.richard was her favourite.

[@ednaatluxton4918]

He pushed her for his own fame. But she was always the star of the duo. She couldn't have relationships as he didn't want her to have her own life or mind. I always wondered if he was SAing her. That could explain her mental health issues. Family like that.

[@AnnmmarieMarchitelli]

She was beautiful inside & out....angelic voice

[@catherinemarsh6361]

It has been 40years since Karen left us. The have learned a lot since then. Richard had made a solo album after her death, a fan said that it would be better if Karen was also singing. He said he agreed . Even your mother didn't we all still love you Karen.

[@davidgoldman6913]

Richard had a talent, but The Carpenters featured Karen as "LEAD" vocals, & He couldn't do it w/o Her... RIP KAREN 👌🏾✌️👍🏼

[@juliestrom412]

Her Mom was an undiagnosed sadist and flat our borderline everything.... Poor girl. I wish she could have broke away. I guess it was deeply entrenched.

[@chuckbeedle1983]

Her mother was the most nasty person I had ever met and all she did was put her down and her brother too!!!

[@karenlynch5684]

How did you know them?

[@chuckbeedle1983]

@@karenlynch5684 why?

[@chuckbeedle1983]

@@karenlynch5684 also I'm a gal some get thrown by the name but that's good too. lol.

[@karenlynch5684]

@@chuckbeedle1983 just curious.

[@stellamal7088]

Her mother was her downfall l read long before they became famous, her mother never showed her any 💘 love it was a point of contention between karen and her mother if only her mother had loved her, she probably wouldn't be dead 💔 very sad and tragic story

[@melgrant7404]

Richard was her mothers favourite. That was part of the problem.

[@larryhunter2026]

Karen also dated Andy Gibb, thanks for posting. I didn't know her mother was so hard on her. so sad. bless her.

[@wendygizmorazzmatazz8899]

Her death and the people around her deciding to be open and honest about the true cause of her untimely demise, saved my life. I was 18 and had been starving myself since I was 13. My mother finally realized what was going on when it was announced that Karen died from Anorexia. What I was doing finally had a name and my mother could help me address the issues and overcome it. I loved the Capenters and Karen was one of my musical idols growing up, so her death impacted me greatly. She is truly missed.

[@deborahjesser2028]

She died in Downey hospital California I worked there and I knew people that were there when she coded.

[@sallyclay1974]

She starved to death. U cant force an adult anorexic person, into treatment.

[@lorraineb.4698]

I thought she was recovering when she died

[@chuckbeedle1983]

Well a lot of people don't know this but her mother kept telling her she was fat on a constant basis and I know for a fact she was never fat period her mother was the most horrible person anyone could ever have the displeasure of meeting. Being a woman myself no mother should ever treat their daughter like that.

[@owlampersand7993]

Tragic 😥 such a serious addiction, poor thing 😪

[@carolinarena3868]

I love Karen Carpenter always. Not Richard . Everyone LOVED Karen. Her voice and her drumming. She was so Amazing.❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@SharonISAAC-c9u]

Both were really amazing, agreed.❤❤

[@beverlyjohnson3025]

I don't think she lost 91 pounds, she got her weight down to 91 pounds. 120 pounds minus 91 pounds = 29 pounds. Proof reading is your friend. The gravestone isn't Karen's.

[@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie]

I thought I read she had gotten down to 74 lbs.

[@beverlyjohnson3025]

@@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie She was when she died, but I was responding to his first weight reference of her loosing 91 pounds, not weighing 91 pounds. Such a great talent and such a sad story.

[@cd72]

@@beverlyjohnson3025 She dropped to 77 lbs but with treatment she gained 31 lbs and maintained her weight at 108 lbs on her 5 ft 4 1/2 inches...

[@studiosinger]

This has a few mistakes. Karen didn’t lose 91 lbs! Karen was 5’4 and was never fat, just medium weight so she likely lost 40-50 lbs. The family moved to Downey, CA in 1963, not when they were teenagers.

[@RLS2512]

Her mother was a narcisist....such sad story. If she ould have only known how incredible she was with out her brother.

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

I don’t understand how a mother can have a favorite child, I love all my kids more than words can describe !

[@Serioussamurai500]

My mum and I used to sing in th e car to the C's 😊

[@chuckbeedle1983]

RIP friend

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

RIP ANGEL 😇

[@DeniseDDS]

How estranged could they be when she was at her mother's house when she died?

[@LeslieGMN]

Karen never stopped trying to get her mother’s positive attention. She died trying. Agnes forced her to go through with her costly wedding even after her money-grubbing fiancé admitted he’d had a vasectomy (“You made your bed, Karen. Now you have to lay in it,” said Agnes, pointing out that People magazine would cover the nuptials). I find their relationship creepy and fascinating.

[@DeniseDDS]

@LeslieGMN that is creepy and sad

[@LeslieGMN]

@@DeniseDDS Isn’t it? Much of what I’ve read about the Carpenters was to suss out what went wrong between Agnes and Karen. I’m floored that Agnes allowed her the purchase of the same pricey Ludwig drum kit as Ringo Starr owned. But even near the end of her only daughter’s life, Karen’s therapist couldn’t get her to say, “I love you.” (Not surprising that I also had a toxic relationship with my mother, which sharpened my interest in this pair.)

[@DeniseDDS]

@@LeslieGMN I understand I am 64 years old and my mother has not spoken to me in 3 years and hasn't told me why. It shouldn't come as a surprise to me but it does I have lived more than half of my adult life without her. I know everyone reacts differently and we all do the best we can. However I would never let my mother have that kind of control over me.

[@LeslieGMN]

@ Understandable. I’m glad you were able to avoid being controlled that way. (My parents went no contact with me shortly after my wedding, nearly forty years ago.) It’s tragic that despite her talent and wealth, Karen simply could not stop going to the dry well that her mother represented.

[@Mary10538]

Karen Carpenter was and still is my favorite female singer

[@carlascrivens1855]

Love her forever ❤😢

[@mendythompson3175]

She needed way,way more help than she received.She was so sick.Poor lady🫂

[@Mikeymoo-x3p]

I think the whole family was dysfunctional including her brother. Despite his beautiful arrangements, how on earth could he not see that she should have been front and centre and not him. That went on for quite a long time and his parents supported and encouraged the golden child. He thought he was the singer and tried to push her into the background until what became inevitable eventually happened. No wonder she didn't have a lot of confidence.

[@usethetools]

IGNORANCE... HER MOTHER HAD ISSUES... AND KAREN DID TOO... SO SO UNDERSTANDABLE AND VERY SAD. REJECTION CAN BE DEADLY SO... SEEK THE ACCEPTANCE AND LOVE JESUS ALONE CAN OFFER.

[@mjbaz1]

Agnes Carpenter certainly seems to have had issues and her daughter suffered as a result. But they were not estranged when she died.

[@ednaatluxton4918]

Her hair had thinned and was falling out due to malnutrition so she permed it and back combed it. She was a walking skeleton and nobody helped her because her brother controlled her and wouldnt let her have a life ,support system, friends,boyfriends ,husband etc all to keep himself famous. Well it was proven she was the star.

[@alisonmcnamara800]

She was the Carpenters, Richard plays the piano! Not many albums after their skinny star left us! Don't outshine your brother!

[@crissyflores9261]

That tombstone at the end is not hers- it says she died in 2012.

[@ellenspear50]

How could Karen lose 91 pounds? I've never seen a photo in which she appeared anything but slender.

[@Djr67]

So many mistakes in this video.

[@Perfect_Blend]

Yep.

[@AngelaOBrien-o7l]

even after wshe dies people were still mean to her

[@sandrabrown950]

I thought het mother found her on the bedroom floor ,and she was already gone by then ?

[@zimjun7]

3:22 He looks like Herb Alpert!!

[@Perfect_Blend]

It IS Herb Alpert. Tells you how factual this video is.

[@DeborahWitt-rx7je]

RIP Karon

[@jeffreyknight3884]

I blame her mother and Richard. Richard sounds like Mama's boy. If it wasn't for Karen's voice. There would never be any carpenters. Let her stay with playing drums.

[@sandrabrown950]

She and her brotjer were lovers ?is tjat true ?

[@a.y.7738]

I learned a lot about Karen Carpenter in this video, though some say there are errors, but still interesting. So Karen Carpenter’s mom was a narcissist, preferring her brother over her daughter. This lady sounds like a real piece of work and also majorly envious of Karen’s talent enough to sabotage her with bad advice, bad words and the cold shoulder treatment. R.I.P. Karen. ☮️❤✌️

[@robertcasa-hr9rh]

She and her brother were lovers

[@Perfect_Blend]

What kind on nonsense are you saying? LOL Trying to get responses? Those are such old early rumors.

[@Cupcake41275]

Such bullshit. Stop

[@annecronin8339]

NEVER

[@melgrant7404]

I heard about that too.

[@fortheloveofgod7739]

Not her grave stone her father was Harold and mother Angnes. There is no Heather A in their family that i know of....