Confessions of a Video Vixen: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, Audiobook
Confessions of a Video Vixen: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, Audiobook
- Karrine Steffans
- HarperAudio
- 2005-06-28
- 5 h 43 min
Summary:
Part tell-all, part cautionary story, this emotionally charged memoir from a ex – video vixen nicknamed ‘Superhead’ goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry-from the physical and emotional abuse that’s rampant on the market, and which marked her own life-to the excessive use of medicines, sex and bling.
Once the sought-after video female, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum performers, such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell hundreds of thousands about Confessions of a Video Vixen: Crazy Moments, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Strikes, of albums with her sensual dance. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So scorching that she made just as much as $2500 a day in videos and was chosen by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film, A Man Aside, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video units, swanky Hollywood and NY restaurants and trysts using the superstars highlighted in the pages of People and IN CONTACT magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans’ life.
Her trip is filled with physical abuse, rape, medication and alcohol abuse, homelessness and one motherhood-all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to reveal an normally romanticised market and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they’re already in danger, she expectations to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first-hand
to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair.