Karen Carpenter 'could have done so much more'
Richard Carpenter thinks his late sister Karen "could have done so much more". The 74-year-old singer starred alongside his sister in The Carpenters, before Karen died of heart failure due to complications from anorexia nervosa in 1983, and Richard thinks she should've achieved even more than she managed during her life. He said: "She was only 32 when she died. She could have done so much more. "But there is only so much you can do." Despite this, Richard believes his sister's anorexia struggle was largely unconnected to her fame. He explained that Karen's issues predated their success in the ...