Selected Product: | Confessions of a Video Vixen Paperback Edition: 1st Amistad Pbk. Ed Author: Karrine Steffans Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: January 2007 ISBN-10: 006089248X ISBN-13: 9780060892487 List Price: £8.99 Average Customer Rating: | | |
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on the famous hip hop and r'n'b stars that we know and some of us love.. in
stead karrine trys her best to JUSTIFY her actions by blaming everyone
else for the way she is and not admitting to herself she has issues
that she has to deal with rather than putting the blame else where.
Instead of making a life for her and her son she partys binges on drugs
and sex and realise's this is bringing her no happiness she resorts to
self harm, but still she contuinues to live her life in this way. When
her son gets older what is he going to think of his mother.. will he
think of her as the head of the household who went out and provided for
her family and was there every night to eat dinner round the table with,
or will it be a case of my mother was a hoe and every one that wanted to
ran up in her??? All in all it was a face paced read...could at times be
eye opening but most definitly not the best of reads i will not be
purchasing the squeal. | A trollop is as a trollop does... | Customer Rating: | This is a very sad story of someone who never got their life together. Life is not one big continuous party and it's unfortunate that Supahead probably still does not understand this. I started this review stating that it is a very sad story. However, I don't find the story sad because of the trials of Ms. Head. I find it impossible to feel sorry for someone who makes the same mistakes again and again.
This story is sad because I feel very sorry for the child that was birthed by this woman. I won't say...raised...because a woman who would leave her child at the doorstep of a physically abusive father or leave for days and even weeks at a time on X-tab binging parties is not a mother. I found Supahead's behavior in regards to her child reprehensible. But what can you expect? A trollop is as a trollop does.
Euftis Emery Author of Off the Chain | Misunderstood | Customer Rating: | When I first heard about the book, I thought what everyone else thought, she just being a skank hoe. Then I started reading the book and could not put it down. Yes she has done some degrading things and she has slept with alot of men, but what women hasn't? The only differnce with her is that she was getting paid for it.
I feel her absent father was part to blame for her antics. She reached out to these men thinking they could give her the attention that she was missing from her father.
She may have done sinister things but at least she's alive to tell the story and I know she has learnt from it.
The book could've been longer, nevertheless it was an intriging read.
Keep strong Karrine!!!!! | Must Read For Young Girls | Customer Rating: | | This book should be a required part of any curriculum for young African American girls coming of age. But it should be discussed with them because some may read it and aspire to be the next Superhead. I don't think that this is the message that is trying to be conveyed. However, in this celebrity crazed society, I can easily see young girls arriving at that conclusion. |
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