Karen Young

Karen Young is a mortal with no specific magical talents. However, in "The Fifth Halliwheel", Karen receives the power of Acid Generation. This is given to her by a "Demonic Power Broker", which she could not handle and almost ruined her life. She even badly harmed Paige with it before Piper, Paige, Phoebe, Leo and Cole forced the "Power Brokers" to take it out of her.

Karen is a working mother and was the predecessor to Phoebe as the advice columnist for the paper, The Bay Mirror, where Phoebe currently works. The job was passed onto Phoebe as Karen wanted to spend more time at home with her kids. She got the idea to give it to Phoebe as the latter had written her column for her when she was under the influence of the Power Brokers and Phoebe gave better advice than she did. Karen hated her boss Elise, calling her a witch and wanting to kill her, but apparently was a fairly good advice columnist given Elise's comments. After Phoebe took over her job, Phoebe became a well liked and well-known columnist.

Appearances
Karen appeared in a total of 1 episode throughout the course of the series.


 * Season 4
 * The Fifth Halliwheel