Confessions of a Video Vixen

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Confessions of a Video Vixen is memoir written by Karrine Steffans which details her life as a teenaged runaway who turns to stripping, hip-hop modeling, and prostitution in order to support herself and, later, her young son. Originally published in 2005 by an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, the book is now a New York Times Bestseller. (The 2006 paperback edition includes bonus material.) The book created a stir when it went on sale because of Steffans' allegations of abuse at the hands of her then-husband rapper, Kool G Rap and her claims that she had sexual relationships with numerous famous music stars and athletes, including Bobby Brown, DMX, Diddy and Shaquille O'Neal.

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  • I was born in 1978 on a hot, sticky late-August day on the twenty-eight-square-mile island of St. Thomas. My mother was an eighteen year old native. My father was fifty-six and lived on the island from 1976 to 1984.
  • My hips have swayed and popped on MTV while I danced on tabletops and poolside in some of your favorite videos.
  • My mother always made me feel like less than a person. She despised the fact that I received constant praise and she was worthy of none. Before I was born, she was the center and now I had taken her shine. We were in competition from the day I arrived.
  • When I took those first couple of steps that led to the stage and the spotlight hit my body, the crowd began to cheer. It is all a blank. I performed without thought, and movement came naturally to me. I got through it. I don't know what I did, or how I did it, but whatever I did was good enough for the crowd. They went wild. The next thing I remember is holding all my money and making my way off stage.
  • Within the first four months of my relationship with G, I had lost forty pounds and weighed a pitiful ninety-six pounds. The stress of the physical and verbal abuse had taken a toll on my body and spirit...Life at our house was torture. It was common to see me with bruises up and down my body.