Is it just me, or have the past few years of reality TV and tell-all books allowed people who embody all things shady get to the top and gain celebrity? Seriously, these days young women are seeing that while an education is nice, if you do something scandalous and talk about it for all to hear, you can get book deals, TV shows, roles in movies, endorsements, advertising for your business ventures and more. Decorum is out for dollars folks, and if you don’t believe me, check out the following individuals. I don’t like to say “Hoes be winning,” so I’ll just say these seven “fools” were (and currently are) winning for all the wrong reasons.

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Karrine “Superhead” Steffans

Nobody gained so much notoriety for discussing lewd behavior as Karrine Steffans did after she revealed a who’s who list of famous (and often, VERY married) rappers she rolled in the sack with or went down on in “Confessions of a Video Vixen.” The chick was on “Oprah” for goodness sake! While the book was interesting, and you could also feel for her a little bit as a woman who was sexually assaulted and had it change her in path in life, it also left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe the whole kissing and telling culture just bothers me, but she didn’t seem that apologetic to the wives of the women she slept with, and spent more time either lauding the men and their packages or dissing their stroke. And after the fact she jumped on the media blitz getting her name out there, still dissing or running after men she claimed to be in love with (like Lil’ Wayne) and signed contracts to put out more of these kinds of books, and more. In the end, I think Steffans just exposed herself most over the years as an all-around sloppy individual, airing out everyone she ran into, including her ex-husband Darius McCrary, Bobby Brown and her current husband via Twitter. She made millions off of being messy.

In ratchet news for the day, everyone’s favorite rapper (NOT), Bow Wow, went on Power 105.1′s “The Breakfast Club” this morning to…well, I’m not really sure what his original intentions were (don’t think he has a new album out–probably some mixtape crap). However, on the show,which is known for touching on the most random and somewhat inappropriate topics, he discussed the celebrity women he “got it in with” with over the years. The list ranged from chicks he dated (Ciara and Angela Simmons), to ones that were just friends with benefits (Kim Kardashian, son??? Eww). Check out who he threw all the way under the bus in an effort to extend his 25 minutes of fame. Check it:

I was never, ever a real Bow Wow fan back when I was a teen and all my young colleagues were gushing over his light eyes and long hair. And now that he’s older, this guy is literally becoming a hot mess by the hour with all the drama he cooks up. He must have really fell out with all of these young women badly (besides Superhead, that’s just how she does…) to feel so comfortable as to air out all their business. I’m sure Ciara will lose her mind on Twitter soon enough, and she should. What is this, high school? You’re not just going to tell your boys, but you also feel alright with telling any and everybody in radio land? Aren’t you a little girl’s daddy right now? Maybe the gay rumors they made him address had him thinking he needed to get macho on us. But Lil Bow Weezy needs to graciously just stop out of the spotlight because these really random and ratchet attempts at trying to remain relevant are just too tacky.

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As much as we love to see them rise, we love even more to see them fall. They’re the belles of the blogosphere for a month or two and before we know it, their horse and carriage careens into the land of obscurity before turning into just a regular old pumpkin. So I’m sending out an Amber Alert for the list of following celebrities. Do you know what they’re up to now?

One of Lindsey Lohan’s first major films in 2004 was “Mean Girls”.  In it there was a scene where one of the main character’s pre-pubescent little sister is dancing in front of the television imitating a pop star in a music video. Booty shorts and all, the little girl tries her very best to get the strokes of her non-existent hips right and her mosquito bites of breast pushed up to look like the video vixen.

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