Confessions Of A Video Vixen

by Karinne Steffans

Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists like 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 romanticized industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered-- and 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.

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 16, 2010

Reviews

[bee · Rating 3 out of 5]

just a big gossip session really.

[ChloeShondra Robertson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Karrine Steffans give details on her upbringing which her mom was verbal and physically abuses and her grandmother save her from mother abuse until they move away to the state. She moved with her dad but things wasn’t great after her dad got with someone else, She move out and her dad said she can’t come back. She spoke on her being rape, being a stripper, being abuse by her son father and sexual relations with single and married celebrities. I am not surprise she didn’t get her butt kicked knowing they had wives or girlfriends. She turn her life around at the end for her son and herself.

[Tiffany Spencer]

Confessions of a Vido Vixen
My thoughts on this one were all over the place. The reason she said she wrote this book was to discourage women from following the same path she did. Hmmm! I just wonder if reading this book succeeded in that.

While this was certainly interesting, frankly this woman’s life scares me. Why? I would personally never want to be in this position going from man to man depending on providing me with money. Or damn thing. Because what a man can give you can EASILY be taken away. That’s certainly the lesson, I hope young women who read this book *did* take away from it. Because as we see in all these affairs, at the end of the day when these men were done with her, what did she gain? Sometimes my cousin likes to tease me about finding a “sugar daddy” and my thought to that is OH HELL NO. Not because I’m so independent-minded, I couldn’t use help, but it’s because if I can give it to my damn self, then I KNOW its mne and no one will ever be able to take that. I thought that by the end of the book Mrs. Steffans would realize that. And it just hit me. No judgement. Just a thought. If your going to involve yourself with all these celebrity men, think about it. What do they all have in common other than questionable character?
They're all successful. So instead of sleeping with them to get temporary gain, fnd out who they know and what they do so you can get where *they* are. You might not have a sports talent or a talent to be an entertainer, but alot of these celebrities also ventured into other businesses. I do see in a small way she tried to use her connections, but what she didn't do was keep in mind that she didn't need to rely on these men. Her aim could have been not to get with them but to get where they were. But that's just how I see it.

It was unclear if she did or didn’t. She put out this book and got movie offers for her story, but then in the next breath she was right back talking about her next sexcapade. To me, this was just SAD! Then reading about the men she was with was a mixed bag for me. Because I’m human, of course, I was like Oh really? Him too? Not that I can say any of these men surprised me, because each one she named just had this air that they would be “like that”. But then I wondered if also the point was to “call them out” for what they did to her. Honestly, I’m surprised that she didn’t get sued or jumped by their wives. She wasn’t necessarily discreet in trying to hide names.

And that’s where the mixed feelings come in. I applaud that she DID call these men out. It really might save the next woman who wants to get involved with them. Maybe.. Maybe not. But you can’t say she didn’t try to show you who they were. But a small part of me struggled with the fact that “what you do between the sheets should be kept there”. She says she has a son. How is he going to feel should he ever see this book? We all have a past, but that doesn’t mean we should broadcast every damn thing. And I think that’s what’s wrong with times today. Everythng now is an open book. Maybe I just think differently.

I heard there was a second volume to this. Because my nature wants to find out more about these affairs, I’ll read it. But I just hope that in this next volume, Mrs. Steffans starts to want more for herself.

Rating: 7 This possibly was the most provocative and telling autobiography I’ve read. Nothing was spared. I had heard of “Superhead” but only in a random lyric that I can’t even think of the song. So, this was an eye-opener.

[RaeReads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Raw, unfiltered, and at times uncomfortable, Confessions of a Video Vixen pulled me in from the first page. Steffans doesn’t hold back — she shares her journey from a troubled childhood to life as one of hip-hop’s most talked-about video models, exposing the glamour and the exploitation behind the scenes. 

This isn’t glossy celebrity scandal fodder, it’s a memoir about survival, abuse, addiction, motherhood, and reckoning with the darker side of an industry that often objectifies women. Some parts feel chaotic and sensational, but the honesty and vulnerability kept me invested. 

A powerful, eye-opening read that shows there’s more beneath the surface than the bling and the music videos. 

[BooksAndWine🍷📖🤎 · Rating 2 out of 5]

In my opinion, this book is overrated. The only interesting part was hearing about her childhood. Other than that, her story is no different than many of the other women/video vixens who want to live the lifestyle of a rich, famous and well kept celebrity wife/girlfriend—and they’ll do anything to get it. There’s nothing fascinating or different about this book. As a matter of fact, this could’ve been told in a one hour radio interview or podcast.

[sharayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this book a for star because I definitely felt like I got tea. I was excited to be able to look up all the characters to her book. Adding names to faces and really picturing her and these people back in 2000. I don’t really care for the ending I was left like ewwww why it end with Usher but whatever. It could’ve ended better but there’s another book after this one so maybe once I read that one it’ll make sense

[JV Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

If “ima fux my way to the top, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY” was a person 😂😂😂 that lil coochie got ALL THE MILES on it

[Yojairy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, now THIS is a memoir. My only wish is that it longer and even more detailed lmao

[Alyssa · Rating 2 out of 5]

It *is* a juicy tell-all. It *isn't* the story of a person who has any aha moments. ::shrug::

[Tamara]

Juicy tale of a Video Model