“I Am Becky With the Good Hair… And I am also Beyoncé” – Karrine
In an article penned to XoJane.com, video-vixen-turned-author Karrine Steffans-Short overanalyzed Beyonce’s Lemonade album like the rest of us, dissecting every lyric, applying it to her own past experiences and wondering if they applied to Beyoncé, too.
In the midst of that, Karrine spilled a little tea about her past with Beyoncé’s husband, her own cheating husband Columbus Short, and what it was like being a sidechick to Method Man, whom she’d been romantically involved with both before and during his marriage. Catch the highlights from Karrine’s article below:
On Her Husband’s infidelities:
“I married a man whom I so desperately wanted to change. The alcohol, the cocaine, the other women, it all became too much and I raged. I cried. I mourned and still mourn the loss of my husband, my friend, my confidant.
Karrine kicked her husband out and exposed his cheating ways on Twitter.
“And to be honest, I always wonder if I should have just kept taking the pain. I still wonder if I should have saved my marriage at any cost, no matter how much it hurt me. I wonder if I could be Beyoncé.”
On Her Fling With Jay-Z:
“Over 15 years ago, I had Beyoncé’s husband. Yes, I was one of Jay Z’s Beckys back in the year 2000 for about three minutes, which is about as long it takes me to satisfy a man in the back of a Maybach while overlooking the beaches of Malibu.”
She gets a little more detailed as she describes her first sexual experience with Mr. Carter…
“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. 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.
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.
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. Chauffeured 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.
After just a few minutes, I lifted my head from his lap, wiped my lips, and…” – read more on the next page.