Saving Jessie
This month marks a year since, Harper Collins released Confessions of a Video Vixen. The much talked about book revealed the memoirs of video star Karrine Steffans.After much legal banter, the book was released and it set the entire hip-hop and literary world a buzz. The Author provided vivid images of her experiences as she ascended to "stardom" earning the nickname "Super- head."Hearing about this woman and her legacy I could not help but be captivated. Not in the Ugly Bettysense, but in the way that we women secretly "envy these type" of women. We don't necessarily want to be them, we just want to learn their secrets of manipulation and control over men....especifically the powerful men to get what they want. Wesecretly crave their POWER while trying to balance that good girl role.
During publicity campaigns for the book we learned how she earned her place in Hip-Hop Culture using her "cranium" and/or their "heads" to navigate her way up the ladder. Providing a list of industry "playas" Ms. Steffans showed how she "negotiated." The extensive list reads like who's who of "business associates." She culminated deals with...Fred Durst, Vin Diesel, Shaquille O'Neal, Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, Irv Gotti and surprisingly...Bobby Brown (husband of Whitney Houston). What a dizzying array of power, prestige, money and men.
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Excellent article! All parents should read it and practice the beautifully worded message ("promote a wider description of beauty and teach self love and acceptance") with their kids before they hit adolescence and stop listening!
This is a very important issue, and one I can see myself becoming even more concerned about in the next years as I'm expecting a baby girl in a few months. Thanks for the article!
Excellent commentary. Young women have trouble understanding that beauty doesn't mean looking like someone on television, and some young men deal with this, too. It's important for young people to read articles like this one - thanks!
Thanks Paula!
It is so important for women to realize how important is to define
ourselves and what beauty is. Let's begin the movement here and beyond. Men also welcomed.
Amen to that! I love the Dove campaign, but it's funny how many guys on the street said the women looked fat. You're right; a society raised on airbrushed ads and scantily clad video vixens has a warped perception of reality. The thing I love about Karrine Steffans book was that she was the first woman to expose the sham of the "glamourous life" of a video star. She showed how being at death's door on the floor of Mr. Chow's bathroom and having many of her so-called paramours leave her in the dust when she needed them -- except for Shaq -- wasn't so glamorous after all. And hopefully her memoir taught would-be video vixens that they can aspire to more rewarding careers...
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