once upon a time… I. Karen Mulder
April 1st, 2006
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MULDER PARENTS BLAME DRUGS
BEN MULDER blames cocaine, lack of food and a failure to come to terms with the end of her career for sending his “beautiful, intelligent” former supermodel daughter Karen “into a black hole of despair”.
Described by her father as “broken, emotionally and physically”, Karen has been under sedation in the Montsouris hospital, Paris, for the past three months after suffering a nervous breakdown on the set of a French chat show last October. In front of a live audience, the 33-year-old Dutch model claimed that she and other girls had been used as sex slaves by senior figures in the police and French government. “I’m certain cocaine caused Karen’s desperate situation,” her father tells today’s Daily Express. “When we visited her in Paris we could see for ourselves. Everywhere there were notebooks full of her tangled thoughts and mad ideas. She was accusing everyone and everything. It was awful to read them. She needs to remain in hospital because she is a danger to herself.” Mulder adds that Karen’s eating habits must have contributed to her fragile mental state. “It hasn’t helped that she has never eaten the way she should do,” he goes on. “Even as a child she used to throw the milk she was supposed to drink with her meal away in the plants.” But Mulder, who currently commutes with his wife Marijke between their home in Holland and the hospital, hopes that Karen will make a full recovery. “What she’s living through now is temporary,” he said, explaining that she is no longer confined to bed and has taken up her childhood hobby of painting. “Slowly, she’ll come to peace.” (24 January 2002, AM) Source:The Mirror
Sure, they say Karen’s accusing everyone and everything but what if she wasn’t the first to accuse them? We shouldn’t forget the sixhundredfortythree scandals of the almighty Elite Model Management (ok, it weren’t so many but it comes close to it) and the breakthrough of BBC-reporter Donald MacIntyre.
But let’s come back to Karen’s hallucinations which abruptly disappeared after a few months and millions (from French taxpayers??). This case is one of uncountable cases where the fashion industry extinguished the ember before it started to burn…. a never ending loop controlled by lewd thugs.
But let’s come back to Karen’s hallucinations which abruptly disappeared after a few months and millions (from French taxpayers??). This case is one of uncountable cases where the fashion industry extinguished the ember before it started to burn…. a never ending loop controlled by lewd thugs.
5 Comments Add your own
1. Richard | April 1st, 2006 at 8:06 am
there are so of many models that have gone through abuse such as karen.
I know many that have taken sleeping pills to end her life
2. jessy | April 2nd, 2006 at 2:24 pm
i hope they weren’t successful
3. Brad | June 1st, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Cocaine is well known to lead to paranoia and depression. Karen wasn’t abused per se, she was however abused by an industry that only hires unatural looking women. How else can a woman succeed but to take drugs and starve themselves.
4. modelsblog | June 1st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
true words, true words…
5. sasha | November 20th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
I was a model the time Karen was, in Paris. It was (an I suppose still is) a lot easier to make a succesful career when ‘dating’ the right guys. Following that, if you make a tremendous career, you live a life of luxery, isn’t it a bit weak to say you have been ‘abused’? these girls knew excactly what they were doing! Oldest profession in the world, it seems to me..
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