The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

Personal life
Duffy was leading a relatively carefree youth in the heyday of her modeling career when in 1995 Karen Duffy was diagnosed with the relatively rare disease sarcoidosis. In 2006 Duffy hosted House of Tiny Terrors on TLC. Karen Duffy.