Personal Life
At the age of eight Hardy was diagnosed with a rare and acute form of ear cancer. Despite successive operations the cancer returned three times, as a consequence of this Hardy was advised to take up the art of ballroom dancing to compensate for the loss in her balance due to the cancer in her ear and the operations to eradicate it before a last-ditch operation when she was twenty one cleared the cancer permanently. As a result of the cancer Hardy has lost 70% of the hearing in her left ear.
In 2003, Karen married a former dancer from New Zealand, Conrad Murray, on the Greek island of Santorini. They have a son named Callum born March 2005. She suffered from post natal depression for some time after the birth of her son.
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