How tall was Karen Carpenter?

Karen Carpenter is commonly listed at 5 ft 4 in (162.6 cm).

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Karen Carpenter’s 5 ft 4 in (162.6 cm) is about average for a US woman: about 57 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Karen Carpenter beside others

Karen Carpenter is one of the shorter singers we have heights for: Peter Steele (6 ft 8 in) stands 1 ft 4 in (40.6 cm) taller and Édith Piaf (4 ft 8 in) is 8 in (20.6 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 5 ft 4 in: Lil Uzi Vert, Britney Spears and Janet Jackson.

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5 ft 4 in (162.6 cm)

A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Source: Wikipedia

Photo: White House photo by Knudsen, Robert L, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Karen Carpenter, 5 ft 4 in (163 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)