Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection
"She'd only just begun."
Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.
Top Cast
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Karen Carpenter
Self (archive footage)
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Richard Carpenter
Self (archive footage)
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Olivia Newton-John
Self (archive footage)
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Cynthia Gibb
Self
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Suzanne Somers
Self
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Kristin Chenoweth
Self
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Belinda Carlisle
Self
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Carol Burnett
Self
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Cubby O'Brien
Self
Overview
Following Karen Carpenter's meteoric climb to stardom in the 1970s and the little-known anorexia nervosa diagnosis that resulted in her untimely death.
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