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Confessions of a Video Vixen | 
| Author: Karrine Steffans
Publisher: Amistad
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  460 reviews
Sales Rank: 7625
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 006089248X
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9780060892487
Publication Date: November 1, 2006
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Product Description
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former 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 in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film, A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life. Her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood—all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they're already in danger, she hopes 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 455 more reviews...
 I actually liked it... August 26, 2008
I lived the same life in my early twenties, but instead of rappers, my life revolved around rock stars & Dj's, so I definitely was able to relate. It's just sad that this book got so many negative reviews commenting on how she's just "exploiting the black community" and "making money off of exposing people" and "blah blah blah". I'd bet that over half of these negative reviews are given by other black women. Now that's what I consider "black on black hate". Here's a story of a young woman trying to find herself as well as her self-esteem & is looking for it in all the wrong people & places and finally gets the courage to write a book & make a little money by telling all. And instead of praising her for it, all of you other black woman have to hate on it and give it a bad review, so typical for another black girl to hate on another fellow black girl. It's so much easier for you to hate on her than give her the benefit of the doubt. Be happy that she found her way and made a couple of dollars on top it. Nope can't do that can you?
Good Read August 17, 2008
This was a good read but not a lot of information like you might think.
Eye-Opening August 11, 2008
I must lift my hat to KS who had the guts to paper her life as a whore among hip hops' unfinest. This book is obviously a best seller not because of the writing skills of the author but because of the telling revelations so candily splattered from across the not too many pages. Honestly, I would have loved to hear a lot more of what she has to say.
The saying that all men are dogs seems indeed true. Married or not, these men were having their cake and eating it and paying dearly for it.
KS did good, she brought these scumbags out in the open for all the young girls to see that yes, it is true, you are just being used.
I wish KS all the best. She is indeed a troubled woman, rich but troubled nonetheless.
Bottomline is, if you are naive like I was about what goes on in the hip hop circles, this book will have your eyes wide open. I read it in one day.
Confessions Of a Video Vixen-Flatline!! July 17, 2008
After hearing all the hype of Karrine Steffins book Confessions i had to read it, i had to know who was going to be outed and how her experiences changed her life. To my sadness and my dismay i must say that this is a novel i refer to as a "fake" book. I finish the 250 page book in two hours. The book told me exactly what i wanted to know but in many interviews she told that this was the biography of her life and she couldn't tell her life story worth out mentioning names of the people that played a part in her life i feel the purpose of the book was not to teach young girls to think better of themselves but to put money in her pocket simply because she didn't mention any normal average Joe Blow she was with no the only mention of any men in the book other than her father and the boy who raped her were famous powerful most of them married with children i can not be told that the only men Karrine ever slept with were the rich and famous. I am highly disappointed with her book and will not be purchasing the Vixen Diaries I can simply read the "tell-all" parts in a blog somewhere since that is the only reason worth reading this excuse of a book.
Interesting... July 5, 2008
I thought that her back story was interesting. But I also think this really became a tabloid story because she never called out a lot of celebs.
She exposed a lot of people for the dirt they did. And while if you're doing wrong in the dark, things eventually come to light, the way she did it wasn't impressive. I did like how she didn't tell on that one specific person, although that got out anyway. But I couldn't blame all the people she mentioned if they didn't have anything to do with her ever again.
The book wouldn't have been interesting at all without the name celebrities she mentioned, though, so that's why they are included.
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