Eating Disorder
Karen did not limit herself to extreme exercise— she was barely eating as well. Whenever she ate with her close friends and family members, she only ever pushed her food around to make it seem like she was eating. She would also offer her food to the other people in the table, claiming that it tasted really good. However, Agnes was no fool, so she did the same thing to her daughter!
Trying To Conceal
At some point, her weight dropped to less than 90 pounds. Karen had to put some effort into hiding the fact that something was very wrong. Her solution involved layering clothes. “She would start with a long-sleeved shirt and then put a blouse over that,” her agent Sherwin Bash said, “and a sweater over that and a jacket over that… With all of it you had no idea of what she had become.”