Karen's Kids


does anyone know why her children didnt live with her? i dont think that was ever brought out in the movie

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Her and her "husband" never got married. They probably made a mutual agreement or something. but she obviously love them to make a long trip to see them.

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The reason her children didn't live with her was because she left them when she found out their father was having an affair with a woman he later married. She told her older daughter, who was six years old at the time, that she was leaving to get a pack of cigarettes and never returned. That was about two years before she was killed in a car accident. I recall reading an interview with them a number of years back where they made it clear they never got over being abandoned by her and how they don't think as highly of her as the public seems to.

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The movie makes clear that she wasn’t the best mother. Notice in the restaurant, her kids are chaotic, and she isn’t really able to control them.

Also in the prior scene, the kids are really cool and nonchalant at seeing her; they weren’t excited like “Mommy!!” They didn’t seem to be so close. It’s implied that she doesn’t stay in touch consistently

Lastly - her financial conditions aren’t good enough to support 3 kids. She has to constantly work overtime at her job, and she shares a dingy house with 2 roommates.

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