Who is Karrine Steffans? Personal Life, Career, Net Worth, Relationships

Profession: Models
Date of birth: Aug 24, 1978
Age: 45
Net worth: 5 Million
Birth Place: Saint Thomas, St. Thomas
Height (m): 1.65
Religion: Christianity
Relationship Status: Married

Karrine Steffans is an American author, recognized through her Vixen series of books. Though Steffans is an author, she managed to stands out through the crowd. she is a successful writer like Stephen King and R.L. Stine who had been great writers, decades to present.

Furthermore, she started to work as an actress and appeared in more than 20 music videos as a video vixen. Most of her music videos involved a good number of multi-platinum selling raps. Let us not waste further time and look into quick facts about the popular writer.

Karrine Steffans

Caption: The Vixen series books author, Karrine Steffans.
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Karrine Steffans: Bio, Family, Education

The writer was born on 24 August 1978, in Saint Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands. At the age of 10, she moved to Florida along with her mother. In one of her book, she has written that she has a troublesome childhood. She grew up in poverty and suffered both emotional and physical abuse. Her mother was an alcoholic and father indifferent. But the sad part was that, at the age of 13, she was raped.

At the age of 16, she ran away from the home and lived on a street for a month. To support herself economically, she started to work as an exotic dancer. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1999, she briefly lived in New York and Arizona.

Karrine Steffans: Career & Achievements

As stated earlier that she has started working from a young age. After moving to Los Angeles, she started to date rapper ‘Kool G Rap’ and moved in with him. However their relationship was but during that period, the rapper had introduced her to Hip hop music industry. So, at the age of 21, she made her debut as a video model with the Jay-Z’s ‘Hey Papi’ in 1999. After that, she appeared in the music videos with R.Kelly, LL Cool J and so on. She has posed for the several magazines cover including Smooth and King.

As an actress, she appeared in the action movie ‘A Man Apart’ in 2003 starred Vin diesel. In 2004, she appeared in the segment of ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. There she discussed on her childhood where she had exploited physically and got emotional trauma. Further, she also revealed how she allowed herself to be sexually abused, to get work in music videos.

As an author, she published her first book ‘Confession of a Video Vixen’ in 2005 which she dedicated to her son. Then ‘The Vixen Dairies’ in 2007 and ‘The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce & Keep The Man You Want’ in 2009. These books were listed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Further, Steffans donated some part of the sales to the Boys and Girls Club of America. Additionally, she visited a number of colleges to speak about the goods and bads about the entertainment industry.

In 2012, she released the book ‘SatisFaction: Erotic Fantasies for the Advancement & Adventurous Couple’ and ‘Drink Fuck Sleep’. Then ‘How to Make Love to a Martian(2013)’ and ‘Vindicated: Confessions of a Video Vixen, Ten Years Later (2015)’.

Karrine Steffans: Personal Life & Husband

Coming over to her personal life, Karrine married to Nathaniel Wilson, popularly known as ‘Kool G Rap’. At the age of 17, she met the rapper and moved in with him to live. As a result, their relationship changes to married status and bear a child, son. Later she has revealed that she ended her relationship with Wilson to protect her son after landed in the hospital due to physical abuse.

However, she had been in many relationships as written in her book. Then in January 2016, she married actor and dancer Columbus Short. However, their relationships didn’t last long and ended with accusing Short of being a bigamist.

karrine steffans and Columbus Short

Caption: Karrine Steffans and ex-husband Columbus Short
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Karrine Steffans: Net Worth & Social Media Profiles

Regarding her net worth, she has earned a hugely impressive amount from her writing career. Although she has worked as a model and actress, her main source of income is writing. Her book has enlisted in the top New York  Times Best-sellers. Therefore, her net worth has an estimation above $5 million. In which she also donates some part to organizations.

The popular Vixen series author does not seem to be social networking personality. Further, she has not any active accounts on different social networking platforms. However, she interacts with the people through her books.

Karrine Steffans: Body Measurements

The model/author has an athletic body type with a measurement of 37-27-36 inches. She has a height of 5 feet 5 inches or 1.65 meters and weighs to 56 kg. She has black eye color and black hair too.