Actress Gina Ravera on the left while actress Lauren Vélez in the middle and video vixen Karrine Steffans on the right.
Gina Ravera was born on May 20, 1966 in San Francisco, California, USA as Gina D. Ravarra. She is an actress, known for The Great Debaters (2007), Showgirls (1995) and Kiss the Girls (1997). Gina Ravera is a classically trained dancer. Her father is Puerto-Rican, mother is African-American. She is best known for the role of Irene Daniels during the first four seasons of the Emmy Award winning TNT crime drama The Closer, and was the only regular cast member to leave the series during its run. Gina Ravera was part of the main cast of Time of Your Life, a spin-off series of Fox’s popular hit teen drama Party of Five. The cast was headed by Jennifer Love Hewitt and other notable main cast members included Jennifer Garner and Pauley Perrette before they gained recognition for their own hit television shows Alias and NCIS respectively. Her acting credits include Soul Food as cousin Faith. She also acted in The Closer, and ER.
Lauren Vélez was born on 2 November 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA and raised in Queens, New York. Lauren Vélez`s parents moved from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn borough of New York City where she and her twin sister were born. Their father was a New York City police officer who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Rockaway, Queens, and moved there with his wife andchildren. The sisters enjoyed setting up improvised plays and acting for the family since childhood. Lauren Vélez has eight siblings including her twin sister Lorraine. Lauren Vélez an American actress and the twin sister of actress Loraine Vélez is most notable as María LaGuerta on Dexter, Detective Nina Moreno on Fox’s New York Undercover, Dr. Gloria Nathan on HBO’s prison drama, Oz, and Elena on ABC’s comedy-drama, Ugly Betty.
Karrine Steffans appeared on TV on Kiss and Tail: The Hollywood Jumpoff (2009) and Life After (2009) TV series. Karrine Steffans was born August 24th 197. She is an American author, most notably of the Vixen series of books. She has worked as an actress and as a hip hop model, having appeared in more than 20 music videos, many by multiplatinum-selling rap artists. In 2007 and 2008, Karrine Steffans visited a number of college campuses to speak about her involvement in the hip-hop industry and its expectations of women. Karrine Steffans was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and moved to Florida when she was 10 years old. 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. She ran away at 16, and began working as an exotic dancer. She lived on the streets for a month. She lived in New York and Arizona, and then moved to Los Angeles in 1999. She currently resides near Hollywood, California.When she was 17, Karrine Steffans moved in with rapper Nathaniel Wilson, better known as Kool G Rap, with whom she had a son. Their relationship was “tumultuous”, and Karrine Steffans says she left for Los Angeles to protect her son after physical abuse landed her in the hospital. Karrine Steffans ‘ 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 began showing her the ropes. She made her video model debut at the age of 21, appearing in Jay-Z’s “Hey Papi” video in 1999. Steffans has also worked in videos with R. Kelly, LL Cool J and Mystikal. In April 2006, Steffans appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show 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. In 2004, after her appearance in A Man Apart, 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. In 2007, Karrine Steffans appeared in an exclusive photo-layout and on the cover of King magazine. In 2003, Steffans appeared in the action movie A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. In 2007, Datwon Thomas the Kingpen and DJ Rhude released a mixtape called Freaky Flows, with a spoken word introduction and epilogue by Karrine Steffans, made available for free through King magazine. 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. She 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, Karrine Steffans is reaching people “who may have dismissed earlier protests against rap’s misogyny”. Karrine Steffans has spoken to young women at colleges about the lesser-known dangers of the entertainment industry. Upon publishing her cautionary memoir Confessions of a Video Vixen, Karrine Steffans departed on a promotional tour and has been interviewed by many journalists, including Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera, 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. Karrine Steffans started her own publishing imprint, Steffans Publishing, in 2008. She has occasionally guest-written columns for King magazine. In March 2010, Steffans announced on her website 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. In July 2012, Drink Fu*k Sleep (Volume 1) was published, 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.” In February 2013, How To Make Love To A Martian was published in exclusively Kindle form. Karrine Steffans describes the book as relating the story of her “unorthodox relationship” with rapper Lil’ Wayne. Karrine Steffans was also alleged to have been with celebrities such as Bow Wow and Shaquille O`Neal and has a sex tape with male porn actor Mr. Marcus. Karrine Steffans or Superhead or Supahead as it is sometimes spelled got from name from her skill at giving fellatio or oral sex. Karrine Steffans was once married to Darius McCrary who played Eddie Winslow on Family Matters whom she was married to from 2009 to 2011. Many people think her name is actually spelled Karen Stephens.
Gina Ravera, Lauren Vélez and Karrine Steffans lookalikes. They are famous women that look alike. These woman also have Latin or Puerto Rican or Dominican Republic descent in their family.