Amber Karev, born Amber Evans, is the younger sister of both Alex Karev and Aaron Karev.
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What was the traumatic event in Amber Karev's childhood involving her brother Aaron?
Her brother Aaron tried to kill her in a psychotic episode when she was 16. Following this event, Aaron was diagnosed with schizophrenia, mirroring their mother's mental health condition.
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How does Amber Karev's intelligence compare to her brother Alex Karev's?
According to Aaron, Amber was smart like Alex.
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What were the challenges Amber Karev faced growing up?
Amber had a difficult childhood, being raised by a mentally-ill mother and a drug-addicted father. After their father left, her older brother, Alex, took over most of their care until they were taken into foster care.
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Who are Amber Karev's siblings?
Amber's siblings are Alex and Aaron Karev. She also has a younger half-brother, Nicky, via her father.
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What is the mental health history of Amber Karev's family?
Amber's mother and brother both have paranoid schizophrenia. When her brother's condition first presented itself, he attempted to kill her.
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History[]
Early Life[]
Not much is revealed about Amber's childhood apart from the fact that, along with her two siblings, she was raised by a mentally ill mother and drug-addicted father. Her brother Aaron tried to kill her during a psychotic episode when she was sixteen. Aaron was then diagnosed as schizophrenic like their mother.
According to her brother Aaron, Amber is just as smart as their older brother Alex, and is more than capable of going to college. ("Sympathy for the Parents")
Notes and Trivia[]
Nadia is sporting a Dutch braid like Amber did as a kid
- It is likely that her surname was legally changed from Evans to Karev, her mother's maiden name, to disassociate from her father, James Evans.
- When she was younger, Alex dutch braided her hair.[1]
- She's the only member of the known Karev family not to have been introduced.
- In Season 6's Sympathy for the Parents (which takes place in 2010), Aaron said Alex hasn't been home for seven years and that Amber was 10 when he last saw her. That makes her about 17 in that episode. In Season 7's Something's Gotta Give, which also takes place in 2010, Alex stated that she was still only 16 years old.
- It is possible Amber was yet to turn 17 in late 2010 when she was attacked by her brother Aaron, making her date of birth somewhere in late 1993 or early 1994. However, this would contradict Alex last seeing Amber at 10 if he left 7 years prior to Sympathy for the Parents, as she would have only been 9. It is possible Aaron either made a rough estimation by the year he left, or Alex saw Amber sometime a year later, when not at home.
- She has at least one child as of 2019 as Jo asked if Amber was having another baby.[2]
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