Confessions of a Video Vixen
by Karrine Steffans
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Read in June, 2006
In Confessions of a Video Vixen, Karrine Steffans gives us an inside look at the life led by our favorite booty shaking beauties on BET and MTV. She tells of the trials and tribulations that have comprised her life including an abusive mother and husband, a painful first sexual experience, degrading treatment at the hands of men she thought she could trust, and the son who she says changed her life. Also, she gives details into the bedroom styles of several prominent actors, musicians and athlet...more
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I thought this was an excellent book and I'm annoyed when people who obviously haven't read it think it's just Carrine bragging about all the men she's slept with.
The book is basically Carrine's autobiography, and it's a *cautionary tale.* Carrine was raped when she was a teenager, then fell into drugs and the hip hop crowd. She had a lot of screwed up relationships and drug problems while she tried to raise her son. The point of the book is she came to realize she can't live like that, a...more
The book is basically Carrine's autobiography, and it's a *cautionary tale.* Carrine was raped when she was a teenager, then fell into drugs and the hip hop crowd. She had a lot of screwed up relationships and drug problems while she tried to raise her son. The point of the book is she came to realize she can't live like that, a...more
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Read in December, 2006
recommends it for:
something mindless to do while waiting for your laundry to finish
Written with a shoddiness that defies the laws of imagination and gravity. I whipped through it in an hour and a half and promptly returned it to Barnes and Noble. Whatever she managed to learn along the way it certainly did not include grammar or storytelling. Makes you wonder why they didn't just get a ghost writer or at least hook her up with Neil Strauss. At least he could have made this morass of stupidity and degradation somewhat more readable. However, the saddest part of this whole book ...more
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Steffans tells the reader her trials and tribulations of her entering the world of hip hop. She begins with her childhood and walks us through abusive relationships to how she made it in the hip hop world. I read this book to get insight into the world of hip hop because it shows you how women are treated and portrayed. I'm writing a paper for my junior inquiry place and I wanted to to know what it meant to be a video vixen and how they were treated. Steffans writing stlye isn't the best but the...more
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not really sure...
It was my weakness for celebrity gossip that led me to pick up this book, and the book delivered plenty of gossip. For that, it was a fun diversion. But for all the drama and action Steffans describes, the writing is humorless and unexciting. I'm not at all convinced she has actually learned the lessons she claims to want to teach the rap video-girl wannabes that pick up her book. Not to sound stodgy, but she spends the whole book glorifying the people in her world that perpetrated some pret...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
MTV afficianados
Steffans sets out to write a cautionary tale, to dissuade young girls from becoming "bad bitches" like her. Unfortunately, while she finds plenty of time to criticize herself, and specific people who mistreated her, she never makes the theoretical leap to the big f-bomb, FEMINISM. I just wish she had taken five paragraphs to discuss misogyny in hiphop (eg why she's treated like a high class hooker for Murder Inc, the repeated accounts of domestic and sexual violence...) and why she f...more
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I liked the first half alot. The second half was crap. I know longer felt like she was trying to shed the light on her life style as much as brag about it.
It was overly graphic in a way that did not seem necessary as much as it seemed like she was trying to impress the reader with who shes met, encountered, screwed, you get the idea.
I was dissappointed to find that in the end she did not seem wiser or well rounded as I had hoped but none the wiser, self absorbed and well, ridiculous. ...more
It was overly graphic in a way that did not seem necessary as much as it seemed like she was trying to impress the reader with who shes met, encountered, screwed, you get the idea.
I was dissappointed to find that in the end she did not seem wiser or well rounded as I had hoped but none the wiser, self absorbed and well, ridiculous. ...more
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This is another one of those books that someone gave me, (I don't know why) but I really don't want to read. From what I've been told about it, it seems as if she enjoyed the fame and all that came with it, but when she became over used in videos and dropped, she had to find another way to get a job. What's easier than putting out a book that talks about everyone else's short comings and closet affairs? Much like the older strip club dancer who just doesn't know when to quit. Time to move on, ho...more
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Read in July, 2007
Even though this women has a pretty interesting life story to tell, she basically is looking for sympathy from the reader and that would be the last thing I would give her. This women blew thousands of dollars, which she made by prostituting and dancing, on drugs and alcohol and wanted the reader to feel bad when she had no place to live, was cracked out on drugs, and her current boyfriend was beating her. I was more disgusted with this womens behavior than anything.
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Read in December, 2007
my review on this book was that this girl i meant women had sex just for money and to be famous.But people dont know here as being famous they know her as the "hoe" or the "whore".i dont think she should be actin like that and she got a son like that is dirty.but i just think she needs to stop what she is doing she better just get a real job and stop doing everyone and every thing.just to add i dont think you should evere kiss and tell.
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Read in January, 2007
I remember enjoying Pamela Des Barres' groupie tell-all "I'm With the Band," and was hoping for something along a similar vein. However, while Steffans' book has plenty of juicy details about her relationships with Usher, Ray J, Vin Diesel, and many others, it just wasn't the same. It was actually really depressing, and not very well written. This is the last time I check out I book I heard about on a BET countdown!
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
gossip hounds
Everyone has a story and is entitled to share it, however, this story did not move me. It was only at the insistance of someone close to me that I even read it. It read like a gossip column. I wish she would have focus more on turning her life around. If you're interested in the Hollywood/celebrity scene you'll enjoy this...and it was a very quick read.
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I read this in one sitting at Borders. This girl is an idiot for writing about her dirty laundry. Just because the people who were sleeping with her were rappers doesn't mean that she merits literary space. But whatever. This is a total waste of time. She wants to validate her rising above the madness but her name dropping signifies the opposite.
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I think i read this book for pure entertainment, it's interesting because the only reason i read this book was because i pretended to be her for our scarlet letter unit. When i researched her i found it interesting so i read the book. you see her start to struggle to support her child and that makes her start sleeping with celebrities
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Read in July, 2006
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voyeurs like me....I'm a bit ashamed I read it.
I have to admit I read this...but I didn't perpetuate her profiting off the book because I got it at the library. It was there one the "new" shelf, how could I resist!?! I found her relationship with Usher perhaps the most disturbing, next to the one with her babydaddy. And what about her and Jay-Z, makes me wonder if Beyonce read it.
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Read in August, 2007
she's been through a lot and i hope that writing the book has helped her towards a life she feels more at peace with.
i feel a little dirty after having read this book because she mostly used the names of the folks she was involved with.
i lost all of my respect for Kool G Rap after reading what an abusive jerkface he is.
i feel a little dirty after having read this book because she mostly used the names of the folks she was involved with.
i lost all of my respect for Kool G Rap after reading what an abusive jerkface he is.
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If you like dirty gossip, this book is tailor made for you! It's a short read--you can finish it in a couple of hours--but it's packed with salacious stories. This woman is not a terrible writer, either. The only downside is that she's totally deluded and while her goal is to be respected, she doesn't get that she's a head case.
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Read in October, 2007
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. I did like the book and was surprised to learn of those she named in the book, such as Ice-T, whom I love on Law & Order. How much of this book is true is another story in itself, but I still enjoyed the book and would recommend it as quick read for others.
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Mindlessly entertaining if reading about a floozy sleeping her way to the top of the bottom amuses you.
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Read in April, 2007
I didn't learn anything from this book except some things that may go on in star circles from the very muted perspective of some young lady who I don't feel is a good role model for my child. She seems to not have a lot of love in her life and therefore makes a lot of chioces I consider not good.
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