Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans

Confessions of a Video Vixen, by Karrine Steffans, commonly known as “Superhead™”, starts out with our author convulsing on the bathroom floor and heaving into the toilet of a Los Angeles restaurant from an overdose of who knows what. Thoughts of her son flash through her head, an epiphany - the will to survive dominates her.

Flashing back to what has brought her to this low, Karrine shares her foundation, her youth, and the things that have shaped and molded her into the woman she is today. St. Thomas: Karrine’s birthplace, the island that gives her that spicy personality and go-with-the-flow mannerism. Her mother: an insecure woman, co-dependent upon men, throwing the punani like a boomerang to make a man stay with her. When the men walk away, she turns to Karrine as a therapeutic target of her violent outbursts. Her Grandmother: Karrine’s nurturer, protector and savior. 

On many occasions, granny rushes to her granddaughter’s side to save the child from her mother’s brutal wrath while she is confined by the boundaries of the island life. Miami, Florida: the city that liberates Karrine and allows her a bit of normalcy as she steps beyond her mother’s treacherous grasp, giving her a taste of what the four walls beyond her apartment have to offer. The city that takes her side and sends her into to her father’s loving arms, away from her mother. Her father: a safe haven in Arizona, a new life and carefree pleasures of teenaged life. But when he remarries, Karrine finds herself second fiddle to the stresses of supporting his new family. She runs away…

Karrine then hits the streets running, quickly learning to market her wares to survive. She has a tumultuous and abusive relationship with Kool G. Rapp for a few years, has a son - her pride and joy, - and exits stage left. Her life is then a roller coaster of parties, drugs and men, living beyond her means, until she hits rock bottom and finds herself in that precarious situation.

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