Confessions of a Video Vixen pg.1-40

SUMMARY
Karrine Steffans talks about her life living on the island of St. Thomas with her grandmother,who treated her with much love and respect and her mother, who frequently abused her. She was born and raised in St. Thomas until she was about eleven and was loved and protected by her grandmother from her mother who was abusive verbally and physically. In St. Thomas she was always looked after by her grandmother because her mother was always neglecting her. Around the time she was eleven, she and her mother moved to Florida and that's when her mother really started to abuse her. she whipped her back until open sores and welts started to form and called her names like whore and worthless. Because of this Karrine started to look for acceptance by having intimate relationships with boys. There was one part in the autobiography where karrine had just been raped and held hostage in a hotel room buy a young troublemaker in the neighborhood and came home early one morning three days later. Her mother just simply said;
QUOTE
"You smell like sex!You're disgusting!Go take a shower" (Steffans,32).
REACTION
I was just so surprised that her mother didnt even ask what had happened to her and if she was okay. She simply just called her disgusting and shunned her. I would be severely depressed if i ever had a parent who treated me this way. I also would have fought back even if I knew I most likely wouldn't win the fight. I was just so shocked that her mother wouldn't show her the love and care that she deserved. I believe that if she wasn't ready to share the spotlight with a child, then she shouldnt have had a child or put her self in the situation where she would get pregnant in the first place. :(