Karrine Steffans

At 45 years old, Karrine Steffans has this physical status:

Karrine Steffans (born August 24, 1978) is an American author, most well-known of the Vixen series of books.

She has appeared in more than 20 music videos, some by multiplatinum-selling rap artists, both as an actress and as a video vixen.

Steffans travelled to several college campuses in 2007 and 2008 to discuss her participation in the hip-hop industry and the growing expectations of women.

Early life

Steffans was born in Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, and she moved to Florida when she was ten years old. She has written about her difficult childhood: she grew up in poverty, suffered emotional and physical abuse at the hands of an alcoholic mother, and an indifferent father, and was arrested when she was 13 years old. She escaped at the age of 16 and began to work as an exotic dancer. For a month, she was homeless on the streets. She lived in New York and Arizona before moving to Los Angeles in 1999. She currently lives in Hollywood. Steffans landed with rapper Nathaniel Wilson, better known as Kool G Rap, with whom she had a child when she was 17. Their marriage was "tumultuous," and Steffans claims she left Los Angeles to shield her son after physical assault led her to her in the hospital.

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Career

Steffans' friendship with Kool G introduced her to the rising hip hop music scene. Friends she had met in Los Angeles through Kool G's acquaintances began to show her the ropes. She made her video modeling debut at the age of 21, appearing in Jay-Z's "Hey Papi" video in 2000. Steffans has appeared in films with R. Kelly, LL Cool J, and Mystikal. Steffans appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in a segment titled "Smart Women on 'Stupid Girls' in April 2006 – Guests debated gender misogyny. Steffans explored how she suffered sexual assault as a child and how she allowed herself to be sexually exploited in order to gain work in music videos.

Steffans modelled for Smooth magazine's 'Hollywood Swimsuit' issue in 2004 and then appeared on the newspaper the following year in conjunction with the introduction of her first book. In 2007, Karrine Steffans was featured in an exclusive photo-layout and on the front page of King magazine.

Steffans appeared in the action film A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel in 2003. Datwon Thomas and DJ Rhude published a mixedtape in 2007, which included a spoken word introduction and epilogue by Karrine Steffans, and King magazine was distributed for free.

The New York Times Best Seller list includes Karrine Steffans' first three books, Confessions of a Video Vixen (2005), The Vixen Diaries (2007), and The Vixen Handbook: How to Find, Seduce, and Keep the Man You Want (2009). She dedicated her first book to her son and gave a portion of the book to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Steffans is reaching people "who may have dismissed earlier protests against rap's misogyny," according to Essence Magazine editor Michaela Davis. Steffans has interviewed young women at colleges about the less well-known dangers of the entertainment industry.

Steffans left on a promotional tour and were interviewed by many journalists, including Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera, and Donny Deutsch, after releasing her cautionary memoir Confessions of a Video Vixen. Starting the best Seller list and peaking at number seven. Confessions remained on the top 200 list for over twenty weeks in hardcover and then returned to the best seller list a year and a half later in paperback. The Vixen Diaries, published by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group USA (formerly Warner Books), debuted on the New York Times Best Seller's list in the fall of 2007. In July 2009, the Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce & Maintain the Man You Want appeared in the How-To/Self-Help New York Times' best sellers list.

Steffans Publishing, Steffans Publishing, was founded in 2008. She has occasionally written columns for King magazine. Steffans revealed on her website that she had signed two contracts with Fox Television Studios in March 2010.

Drink Fuck Sleep (Volume 1) was published in July 2012, with Karrine Steffans as editor. "Anthology" is the book's subtitle that is characterized by its publishers as "a collection of essays describing regrettable sexual experiences in which alcohol use was present" or "after." How to Make Love to a Martian was released in purely Kindle format in February 2013. Steffans describes the book as relating to her "unorthodox friendship" with rapper Lil' Wayne.

Steffans published Vindicated: Confessions of a Video Vixen, ten years since the book's debut, in 2015, with a foreword by King magazine founder Datwon Thomas. "I realized recently that I'm surrounded by young women who have never had a sexual revolution," Steffans said in an interview about her work's legacy. I've always been this figure, this Joan of Arc [for them]].

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