And this morning, someone repeating in all earnestness the myth about Mama Cass killing herself with gluttony. The cruel irony that she is remembered as binge-eating herself to death where actually she probably died as a result of trying to be thin.
That one kills me, and even though it makes me look like a giant smug douchebag, I always correct people whenever I hear it repeated.
There's a near-mirror of it in how we often hear that Karen Carpenter starved herself to death, but there's at least some truth to that: Karen was actually back to a healthy weight when she died, but the weight gain had been sudden, and her heart had been weakened from years of anorexia and thyroid medication abuse.
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Date: 2011-07-08 06:35 pm (UTC)That one kills me, and even though it makes me look like a giant smug douchebag, I always correct people whenever I hear it repeated.
There's a near-mirror of it in how we often hear that Karen Carpenter starved herself to death, but there's at least some truth to that: Karen was actually back to a healthy weight when she died, but the weight gain had been sudden, and her heart had been weakened from years of anorexia and thyroid medication abuse.