Did Karen Carpenter ever have a love interest?
Karen Carpenter had a busy schedule and had no time for love, she rarely showed no interest in marriage or dating, believing that a relationship would not survive constant touring, adding “as long as we’re on the road most of the time, I will never marry”.
In 1976, she said the music business made it hard to meet people and that she refused to just marry someone for the sake of it. And once, Carpenter had admitted to Olivia Newton-John that she longed for a happy marriage and family.
She later dated several notable men, including Mike Curb, Tony Danza, Terry Ellis, Mark Harmon, Steve Martin, and Alan Osmond.
After going back and forth with her romance, she finally decided to marry real-estate developer Thomas James Burris. The duo got hitched on August 31, 1980, in the Crystal Room of The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Burris is already divorced with an 18-year-old son and was nine years Karen’s senior. Carpenter desperately wanted children, but Burris had undergone a vasectomy without telling her before the marriage had been arranged and refused to get an operation to reverse it. Their marriage did not survive this disagreement and ended after 14 months.
