'This was pre-Yoncé, of course, but the fact is that a Becky is a Becky, and I was the Becky for many men, and they were all my salvation and my destitution. Referring to the much-speculated identity of 'Becky with the good hair' as sung by Beyonce on her new album Lemonade, Karrine ruled herself out of being the target of Bey's wrath as the encounter happened before Jay Z's relationship with the Destiny's Child diva.
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She wrote The Vixen Manual: How to Find, Seduce & Keep the Man You Want. Karrine married Short in 2015, and previously dated Bobby Brown in 2006, and Bill Maher in 2005. You can be both a Bey and a Becky, and still be OK.No foul: Karrine said she's not the 'Becky' Beyonce is raging baout because the Tidal mogul hadn't started dating the pop singer when she had her brief encounter with him
With this, she seems to comment on the duality of being a woman. Until Lemonade, I thought these two women were mutually exclusive but quickly realized they are not and are, in fact, often the same woman.Because a woman is all things.
Not only that, Karrine is tired of seeing herself as simply a "Becky" and guess who helped her see the light on that? Queen Bey to the rescue! She was with Jay and now he's with Bey and now she's with Columbus. We never mentioned our Malibu melee and acted as if it never happened. Over the next few years, I would see Jay again, as I became close with his then business partner Damon Dash. After just a few minutes, I lifted my head from his lap, wiped my lips, and knew we'd made a mistake. This was the beginning of my stint as a video girl, and one day Jay and I stole away for some time alone toward the end of the day.Ĭhauffeured away from the set, down the winding road, and closer to the shoreline, Jay and I feasted on our attraction to one another - rabidly and quickly. He was a long-time friend of my cousin, Chuck, and after a call from him, Jay knew to keep me close, making sure I got loads of camera time. A single mother raising my son on my own, I jumped at the chance to make $2,500 a day to dance around and look pretty next to the artist - Jay Z. I was a 21-year-old California transplant who'd been tossed into my first music video after a fateful meeting with director Hype Williams. In 2000 - so, long before Beyoncé was even a twinkle in Jay Z's eye - Karrine got a job dancing in one of his videos. Karrine Steffans Short, video model and wife of former Scandal star Columbus Short, writes for XO Jane about being one of Jay Z's "Becky With the Good Hair." Karrine has been featured in tons of music videos and even wrote a book about her adventures called, " Confessions of a Video Vixen," which is billed on Amazon as " emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry - from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life - to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling." (BRB, ordering 50 copies.) Here's some good "hoooollly shit!" drama for your Saturday morning!