Karen Pendleton Then and Now
Blonde haired beauty Karen Pendleton was one of the original cast members of The Mickey Mouse Club. As an original Mouseketeer, she was often partnered alongside the equally cute Cubby O’Brien. Unlike many of her co-stars, after the show, Karen fell away from show business. She returned to school and got married, later divorcing. In 1983, she endured a horrible tragedy when she suffered a snowmobile accident.
The accident left her paralyzed from the waist down. She then returned to school and earned a degree in psychology which she used to work with women at battered women’s shelters and she even served on a board advocating for physically handicapped people in California.
