Karrine Steffans(August 24, 1978) is a former music vieo performer turned New York Times best selling author twice over upon scribing both Confessions of a Video Vixen in 2005 and The Vixen Diaries in 2007. Her 2005 autobiography spanned the first twenty-five years of her life, beginning with her tumultuous and abusive upbringing, a violent rape at thirteen and her years as an exotic dancer beginning at just sixteen years old. The memoir goes on to vividly describe her abusive marriage at the age of seventeen, her subsequent divorce and single motherhood by the age of twenty-one when she then moved to Los Angeles in December 1999.