Karrine Steffans (Superhead)Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Son, Book, Videos
Rachel Hickman
Published Jan 05, 2026
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Karrine Steffans Biography
Karrine Steffans is an American author, most notably of the Vixen series of books. She has worked as an actress and as a video vixen, having appeared in more than 20 music videos, many by multiplatinum-selling rap artists. Steffans visited a number of college campuses in 2007 and 2008, to speak about her involvement in the hip-hop industry and its expectations of women.
Karrine Steffans Age
Karrine Steffans was born on August 24, 1978 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States. She is 41 years old as of 2019.
Karrine Steffans Height
Karrine Steffans Net Worth
Steffans has a net worth of $8.5 Million. The Vixen series of books author, accumulates her income from her career as an author and also has a publishing imprint known as Steffans Publishing.
Karrine Steffans Husband
Steffans was married to Darius McCrary from 2009 to 2011. The two called it quits after only 2 years of their union citing irreconcilable issues. McCrary is an American film and television actor and singer best known for his role as Edward “Eddie” Winslow, the oldest child of Carl and Harriette Winslow on the ABC/CBS television sitcom Family MattersKarrine Steffans Son
Steffans has a son named Naim Wilson born on January 19, 1998 (age 21 years) whom she got with her then boyfriend Kool G Rap.
Karrine Steffans Early Life
Born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Steffans moved to Florida at the age of 10. She has written about her troubled childhood: she grew up in poverty, suffered emotional and physical abuse at the hands of an alcoholic mother and indifferent father and was raped when she was 13 years old. Steffans ran away at 16 and started working as an exotic dancer. She lived on the streets for a month.
Steffans lived in New York and Arizona and then moved to Los Angeles in 1999. She currently resides near Hollywood. When Steffans was 17, she moved in with rapper Nathaniel Wilson, better known as Kool G Rap, with whom she had a son. Their relationship was “tumultuous”, and Steffans says she left for Los Angeles to protect her son after physical abuse landed her in the hospital. During her marriage to third husband, actor Christopher Short, Steffans had two abortions due to concern over his drug and alcohol addictions and abuse within the relationship.
Karrine Steffans Model
Her relationship with Kool G introduced her to the growing Hip hop music industry. After moving to Los Angeles, friends she had made in the industry through acquaintances of Kool G started showing her the ropes. She made her video model debut when she was 21 years old, appearing in Jay-Z’s “Hey Papi” video in 1999.
She has also worked in videos with R. Kelly, LL Cool J and Mystikal. Steffans appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in April 2006, in a segment titled “Smart Women on ‘Stupid Girls’ – Guests discuss the objectification of women”. Steffans discussed how she had suffered sexual abuse as a child and how she allowed herself to be sexually exploited in order to obtain work in music videos.
After her appearance in A Man Apart in 2004, 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. Steffans appeared in an exclusive photo-layout in 2007 and on the cover of King magazine.
Karrine Steffans Music
Steffans appeared in the action movie A Man Apart in 2003, starring Vin Diesel. Datwon Thomas the Kingpen and DJ Rhude released a mixtape called Freaky Flows in 2007, with a spoken word introduction and epilogue by Karrine Steffans, made available for free through King magazine.
Karrine Steffans Author
Karrine Steffans’ first three books, Confessions of a Video Vixen (2005), The Vixen Diaries (2007) and The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce & Keep the Man You Want (2009), have all made The New York Times Best Seller list. Steffans dedicated her first book to her son and she donates part of the proceeds from the book to the Boys and Girls Club of America. According to Essence Magazine editor Michaela Angela Davis, she is reaching people “who may have dismissed earlier protests against rap’s misogyny”. Steffans has spoken to young women at colleges about the lesser-known dangers of the entertainment industry.
After publishing her cautionary memoir Confessions of a Video Vixen, Steffans departed on a promotional tour and has been interviewed by many journalists, including Geraldo Rivera, Bill O’Reilly and Donny Deutsch. Entering The New York Times Best Seller list at number seven and peaking at number five, Confessions stayed on the list for over twenty weeks in hardcover and returned to the best seller list a year and a half later in paperback.
The Vixen Diaries, published by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group USA (formerly Warner Books), entered The New York Times Best Seller’s list at number six in the fall of 2007. The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce & Keep the Man You Want entered the How-To/Self-Help New York Times best sellers list in July 2009 at number seven.
In 2008, Steffans began her own publishing imprint, Steffans Publishing. She has occasionally guest-written columns for King magazine. She announced on her website in March 2010, that she had signed two deals with Fox Television Studios. In one deal, her book The Vixen Manual was ostensibly optioned, while the other involves the writing and production of a scripted television series.
Drink Fuck Sleep (Volume 1) was published in July 2012, with Karrine Steffans as editor. The book is described by its publishers as “an anthology” that consists of “a series of essays depicting regrettable sexual experiences wherein the consumption of alcohol was involved, either before, during, or after.” How To Make Love to a Martian was published in February 2013 in exclusively Kindle form. Steffans describes the book as relating the story of her “unorthodox relationship” with rapper Lil’ Wayne.
In 2015, ten years after the release of her first book, Steffans published Vindicated: Confessions of a Video Vixen, Ten Years Later, with a foreword by King magazine founder Datwon Thomas. Speaking about the legacy of her output, she said, “I realized recently that I’m surrounded by young women who have never had a sexual revolution. So I became almost this figure, this Joan of Arc [for them]”.
Karrine Steffans Books
- Steffans, Karrine; Hunter, Karen (2005), Confessions of a Video Vixen, New York: Amistad
- Steffans, Karrine (2007), The Vixen Diaries (revised ed.), New York: Grand Central Publishing
- Steffans, Karrine (2009), The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce, and Keep the Man You Want, New York: Grand Central Publishing
- Steffans, Karrine (2011), SatisFaction: Erotic Fantasies for the Advanced & Adventurous Couple, New York: Grand Central Publishing,
- Steffans, Karrine (editor) (2012), Drink Fuck Sleep (Volume 1), Sherman Oaks, California: Steffans Publishing
- Steffans, Karrine (2013), How To Make Love to a Martian, Los Angeles: Steffans Publishing
- Steffans, Karrine (2015), Vindicated: Confessions of a Video Vixen, Ten Years Later
Karrine Steffans Super Head | Karrine Steffans Lil Wayne
Karrine Steffans, the Former video vixen opened up about how she got her nickname “Super Head” and why she loves giving great oral sex and how men she dealt with were obsessed with Lil Wayne’s penis size. In an interview with Vlad TV, the Confessions of a Video Vixen author explained that her nickname was being whispered in the Hip Hop community and became public once “Why” rapper Jadakiss referenced her in his “Blood Pressure” verse, “Nobody made it up.
It was in Jadakiss song,” she explained that title was given to her for her fellatio expertise, “Because I great at everything that I do. So let’s be super honest here, I’ma be a little frank and a little uncouth. I’m not gonna suck a dick unless I’m going to be great, I’m not gonna write a book unless I’m gonna do it great… I’m not gonna touch anything unless I plan on doing it better than anyone else you’ve ever met in your entire life. That’s how I like to do things.”
