About this title: Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists like Jay-Z, R Kelly and LL Cool J sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well-known film director F Gary Gray to co-star in his film, "A Man Apart", starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of "People" and in "Touch" magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life. Her ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060842420ISBN:0060842423
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 205 pages, clean text and boards. Dust jacket has minor wear, flap crease. Previous owners note written inside front board. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Amistad Pr
Date Published: 2006-11-01
ISBN-13:9780060892487ISBN:006089248X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Amistad
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780060892487ISBN:006089248X
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060842420ISBN:0060842423
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Elephant Folio-over 15"-23" tall. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. First Edition, Fifth Printing. Quarter black cloth with scarlet lettering stamped on spine; red paper over boards. DJ with front and back photographs of the author. 205 pages. CONDITION: Book Very Good, boards lightly scuffed, corners bumped, spine slighly cocked, but text free of all markings; DJ Very Good, not clipped, light shelf wear, top and bottom edges slightly wrinkled, one small closed tear at ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780060892487ISBN:006089248X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 210 pages. (210 pages) once the sought-after video girl, karrine steffans has helped multi-platinum artists sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood-all by the age of 26. by sharing her story, she hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticized industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. paperback edition includes new material. col ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad Pr
Date Published: 2005-07-01
ISBN-13:9780060842420ISBN:0060842423
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780060842420. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060842420ISBN:0060842423
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad
Date Published: 2005-06-28
ISBN-13:9780060842420ISBN:0060842423
Description: Very Good. 2005 hardcover, STATED 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING WITH FULL NUMBER LINE, no marks noted in text, dust jacket shows wear, All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
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"Just finished reading this book, and it was certainly very interesting, especially for the high "wow" factor of all the names that she lists in some detail. BUT, I have noticed that Karrine never fully takes responsibility for her own actions. She blames her mother, her father, the men that didn't come through for her....everyone but herself,really. I found some unsavory comments that she made about Tyra Banks after their tiff on Tyra's show and yet again it proves the type of person she is: I'm no gushing Tyra fan myself, but there was no call for her to broadcast Tyra's real or alleged dalliances for the world. If Karrine decided that she wanted to write a book as a cautionary tale to young women and girls, then she should do it selflessly, fully aware that she would not be placed on a pedestal for this act. The book is inconsistent in several places. First of all, according to Karrine, her father had a son who moved in with him after she had been living with him for a brief while. Later when things got bad for her she states that her father had a strict rule that none of his children were allowed to move back in once they had moved out...why was her half-brother an exception then? The biggest discrepancy that I found really hard to swallow was relating to her realtionship with Kool G Rap. She states initially that she was 'wed' to him under her alias Yizette Santiago with a fake age, ID, etc, ergo, the marriage was not actually binding (supposedly unbeknownst to Kool G). But later on she goes into detail about how her credit was ruined as a result of Kool G misusing her accounts during their time together. How would he have been able to do that if he didn't even have access to her real name???? As a cautionary tale, I'm afraid this book fails woefully. Karrine spends so much time glorifying the lifestyle as an excuse for her continuing to be in it, that she completely misses the point of why she even wrote it. She describes one overdose experience, hardly enough to dissuade a hardheaded youth. By naming names, she glamourizes her experiences, making her contacts of more interest than her actual tale. As a tell-all dish, its spot on. I wish that Karrine would simply get off her newly discovered high horse and just admit that she set out to write and capitalize on her contacts in the 'industry'. It's okay...no one's perfect."
"Well... I really wanted to like this girl. Really wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. People say such horrible things about her. I was hoping she's just misunderstood.
I made it about 1/2 through the book before I had to stop and read something else. Ms. Steffans has no redeeming qualities. What I read was depressing, and I found myself just hoping that it would get...more positive! Nope. She takes too much pride in her past...whether she wants to admit or not. I was under the impression that she'd written the book to be a cautionary tale, but it's more like a how-to book for wannabe ho's. I was interested in reading the book for, well, the gossip/kiss-and-tell factor, and because it's referenced quite a bit, so yeah, I was curious! But I just ended up becoming more and more nauseuous with each page. Maybe one day, I'll pick it up again and finish it. Right now, I just see no point.
"It's a book that is more of a work of gossip. Karine Steffans writes a tell all to warn girls of how easy it is to be corrupted and to have self confidence to make something of yourself and tries to discourage them from doing things she did but then gloats about how rewarding some of the experiences were and what they have gotten her and how successful it made her because of it and she makes it seem like it is ok.
I know it is her memoir but she writes melodramatically almost like she is a college student trying to show off her intelligence to a professor she over does it using big words way too much for this kind of book and stories.
I don't fault her for telling her life story and feel sorry for the abuse she has suffered but if she wants to send a message there could have sermonized a little more plus certain things she thinks are romantic seem more to be her being taken advantage of more or just wrong Like the Jay-Z story or the Irv gotti story. She also seems to sensualize some of her stories but then they just end abruptly yet she can tell you exact details of materialistic things like what suit a person wore or what kind of car a person drove plus the interior of the car.
it's a wildly uneven book. It's like the equivalent of reading a trashy novel. She gives her philosophy of life which feels like dime store wisdom.
I'm not against confidence but she seems to have an air of entitlement that she really thinks of herself as famous instead of infamous. She is like a reality show star sure you know who she is but she can be easily forgotten as a person who was famous for a bit but she hasn't really earned a career."
"When i rated this book i gave it a rating of 3. When i read this book at first, i thought that the life of a video vixen was not a big deal. But as i got to learn the life style of a video vixen i realized that people would do anything to put roof over their head.As i got to learn the character i became very disgusted of how she went of going to the top.She also was not setting a good example for her child.I thought that this book should not went to press because this book exposed a lot of celebs and theirs privacy.And she even exposed how dirty and gold digging she really is. She really put a bad name out for herself and women as a whole. AT the end of the book i almost wanted to cry for her because she was such a dirty and disgusting person and it seem as though that she really didnt care of what she did and how she did it.This is the reason i rated this book a perfect 3."
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