Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karen Hunter, Karrine Steffans (2005, Hardcover)

WARNING! This is NOT appropriate for early teens (who it is often marketed to), or anyone who has NOT dealt with issues surrounding sexual abuse. The abuse in this story is graphic, gory, and unsettling for many people with or without a sexual abuse history. This is a girlfriend tell-all story about the life of a little girl who grew up to become one of the greatest hip-hop whores of all time (that was the writers quote -not mine). The good news is that she woke up one day and realized she was a drug addict with a kid and she needed to get some skills. The lesson that wealth cannot be applied to the outside of your body before it is created from inside your self is the whole point of this book and it takes some awful turns before you get that message.


If you are college age women you will find this a book amazing and sickening. If you are a mother you will find this to be a very sad and pathetic recounting of how bad life can get for so many young women. If you have any psychology or counseling background you will read a very sad story about a small child that is abused from her parents and grows into a thirteen year old girl that is brutally raped with no therapy, and then a sixteen year old runaway that using sex as a means to get love and who sells her body to the lowest bidder over and over again. We then see that girl get married and beaten everyday by an abusive husband who she has no will to leave.

She then gets an apartment with the help of some people in the entertainment industry and then she really gets eaten alive. We hear the steamy stories of her affairs with the elite of hip-hop and is just gets keeps going from bad to worse as the drug habit and the money problems escalate and she ends up homeless with her kid. The majority of this book is about the horrible life a beautiful woman and party girl can have when she sells her soul and her body to the world. There are two chapters of hope in the whole book.

The audio to this book was riveting and the author also reads the story so it really came across as a girlfriend tell-all. If you like a saga of a behind the scenes of the music industry this is one for the books-literally…

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