Karrine Steffans- An Opportunist or a Business Woman?

I read the book, in one day actually. I got it from the bookstore the week It dropped. I felt horrible for "Super Head" and all that she had put herself through trying to be accepted in the combined world of Hip-Hop and Hollywood. Her tale was the classic of Sex, Drugs, and Rock N Roll at it's lowest. But most importantly I saw the loss of dignity and self respect. "Confessions Of a Video Vixen"pissed alot of people off and she was ridiculed publicly. Alternatively I wasn't mad at those rappers or Moguls in the book that used her. I didn't look at those men whose lives were broadcasted in the tell all any differently because I already figured that 99% of the dudes in that world were living frivolously and vicariously. But I sure did hurt for her. A little piece of my heart went out to hers because of how impetuously she'd been treated and how she'd been used and discarded like an old messy tampon ...I cared and cared and cared until last month. That's when I tuned in and started hearing about Neo, Weezy, Missy Elliot, and Da Brat, etc. The riveting story of reckless abandom was continuing but it was instigated this time by the "victim" herself. "The Vixen Diaries" drops September this year and continues the story of Karrine and her mostly wild life in the throes of a world filled with unsatisfactory satisfactions. This same woman who was on Oprah boo-hooded, who cried out in interviews and to other young girls in her book warning them to stay away and not put hope in this life filled with broken promises and shattered dreams, the woman who said she was changed and would never allow herself to be in that life again, heralds her story again for all to hear and build an imagination on.
I, like a gullible child believed her sadness and pleas in her first book. I was defensive for her and thought that it was on the positive for her to come clean in 2005 and drop names to expose the not so innocent. So what that her celebrity came from tatle telling! If the men and the industry was further exposed, so be it. It is what it is. It's not like their careers would get hurt over it really. Now I rethink everything with the onset of this second novel that tells peoples' business. We get to peek into the private lives of the celebrities and what they do the dark. The darkness has had some light shed on it and those folks that dealt with Karrine post Confessions are getting a rude awakening now and even more come September when the world finds out who is a lesbian, who sucked her toes, and who cheated on their wives or is the best in bed.
Her first book did HELLA good and she become a psudo celebrity overnight. Now she's trying to make it a double. Can you be mad at that? Can you trust her words now? Certainly not her intentions. She made a reported 6 figures from the first publishing so she's got lots to gain. Does she look like a fool and if she does, does she care because obviously she's "Laughing Straight to the Bank".

1. So is she wrong for telling these folk Biz?
2. Is she a business woman or an opportunist?
3. Will you buy the new book, Diaries?

What do you think about all of that, etc.

The Maven/Miesha