Eating Disorder
But exercise would not do enough for Karen. Her eating habits were worsening. Friends and family noted how she would strategically play with her food at meals, giving the impression that she was eating. Karen would even go as far as telling others to try food from her plate, telling them that it was so delicious. But soon her mother, Agnes, would pick up on this trick and do it right back to her.
Eating Disorder
Trying To Conceal
When Karen’s weight had plummeted to less than 90 pounds, she needed to be creative in order to hide it. She started wear many layers of clothing, but her agent, Sherwin Bash, noticed her ploy. “She would start with a long-sleeved shirt and then put a blouse over that,” he said, “and a sweater over that and a jacket over that… With all of it you had no idea of what she had become.”
Trying To Conceal