Karrine Steffans has worked as an actress and as a video vixen, having appeared in more than 20 music videos.
16 Facts About Karrine Steffans
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In 2007 and 2008, Steffans visited a number of college campuses to speak about her involvement in the hip hop industry and its expectations of women.
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Karrine Steffans was born in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and moved to Florida when she was 10 years old.
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Karrine Steffans ran away at 16, and began working as an exotic dancer.
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Karrine Steffans lived in New York and Arizona, and then moved to Los Angeles in 1999.
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When she was 17, Karrine Steffans moved in with rapper Nathaniel Wilson, better known as Kool G Rap, with whom she had a son.
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Karrine Steffans made her video model debut at the age of 21, appearing in Jay-Z's "Hey Papi" video in 2000.
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In 2004, after her appearance in A Man Apart, Karrine Steffans modelled for Smooth magazine's 'Hollywood Swimsuit' issue, and appeared on its cover the following year in conjunction with the release of her first book.
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In 2007, Karrine Steffans appeared in an exclusive photo-layout and on the cover of King magazine.
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In 2003, Karrine Steffans appeared in the action movie A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel.
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In 2007, musicians Datwon Thomas and DJ Rhude released a mixtape called Freaky Flows, with a spoken word introduction and epilogue by Karrine Steffans, made available for free through King magazine.
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Karrine Steffans has spoken to young women at colleges about the lesser-known dangers of the entertainment industry.
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Karrine Steffans started her own publishing imprint, Karrine Steffans Publishing, in 2008.
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In March 2010, Karrine Steffans announced on her website that she had signed two deals with Fox Television Studios.
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Karrine Steffans describes the book as relating the story of her "unorthodox relationship" with rapper Lil' Wayne.
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In 2015, ten years after the release of her first book, Karrine Steffans published Vindicated: Confessions of a Video Vixen, Ten Years Later, with a foreword by King magazine founder Datwon Thomas.