

Karen finds comfort in her mother and tells her what happened. After this, Karen returns home and vandalizes her dad's room. However, Eddie calls Karen a whore when she admits her extensive sexual history at the ball, as required by the purity ball's program. At the dance, they have fun together and almost reconcile. In Nana Gallagher Had an Affair, she gets ready for the dance, has dinner with her parents, and takes a picture with her father. Karen couldn't find who she wanted to be through Lip.ĭuring But at Last Came a Knock, Eddie makes a deal with Karen to go to his church's purity ball, in hopes of getting her to stop having sex. Karen and Lip develop a sexual relationship, with Lip clearly falling in love with her, but she refuses to be his girlfriend. Karen's father leaves after catching her giving oral sex to Ian, which she only does at Lip's request to see if Ian is actually gay. Apparently, "science just turns her on" and she is happy to repay Lip's tutoring with sexual favors. In the Pilot, she is introduced as Lip's tutoring student and the neighborhood bad girl. It is possible that it will wear off or it might be permanent. But she said she isn't able to feel anymore and didn't know who hit her after she was told.

Karen is considered a sociopath, so much so that Lip even thought she was possibly faking part of her brain damage after her accident and thought the "real Karen" was still in there. It is suggested that she truly loved Lip, as he was the only person besides her mother to accept her. She was touched when Lip stated he loved her but felt guilty at sleeping with Lip after just sleeping with his father, being hurt her mother rejected her, and being sad when Lip decided to end things with her permanently. This caused her to feel angry to the point that she decided to destroy his possessions and sleep with Frank and send a recording of it to him. However, these shifts were to mask her vulnerabilities, as she was devastated when her own father called her a whore. She starts to use people, lie, and take advantage of them to get what she wants. In the next two seasons, Karen's personality changes for the worst. Karen takes care of her mom and tries to protect her from her dad and the outside world. Karen seems bored with life and only finds interest in sleeping around. Karen is introduced as a sexually ambitious girl, who is best friends and lovers with Lip. She goes through a brief phase where she dyes her hair black, pierces her nose, has "Whore" tattooed on her arm, and wears all black. Karen is a petite, blonde girl who often wears jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies.
