*The woman formerly known as Karrine Steffans is expecting her second child.
Last spring, Steffans, famously known as Supahead, changed her name to Elisabeth Ovesen. As it turns out, this is her legal surname.
“In 2015, with the completion of her original ten-year plan, Elisabeth retired the Karrine Steffans pen name and from book publishing,” she noted in her website bio. “Six years later, Elisabeth returned to publishing with bi-monthly sex, love, relationship columns for Medium publications LEVEL and ZORA from the summer of 2020 to early 2022.”
The author of three New York Times bestselling books recently announced that she is pregnant, Vibe reports. Ovesen hit up Instagram to show off her positive pregnancy test in a now-deleted post that she captioned, “For some women, women like me, these two lines are scary.”
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Ovesen continued, “They conjure feelings of fear and anticipation, anxiety and confusion. Memories of past reproductive and pregnancy traumas rise to the surface,” wrote the former video vixen, 44. “Frantic calls to the doctor, emergency appointments, blood work and ultrasounds—not just to check on the new life developing inside, but the scars, the tumors, the cysts. Appointments about life and death. Discussions about the dangers associated with pregnancy and birth at this age, with this trauma. Bed rest is certain and nothing else.”
She then thanked her partner, Nigerian-American actor-chef Kwame Onwuachi, for “the most exciting, most terrifying gift.”
“I don’t know what comes next, but I know I can’t do it without you,” Ovesen said.
Ovesen has a son, Naim Wilson, whom she shares with her ex, Kool G Rap.
Meanwhile, here’s what she told MadameNoire in a 2022 interview about her name change: “Karrine Steffans. I used it for 10 years. It is my pen name. It is one of my pen names. Actually, I have several. So, a lot of our favorite authors are not using their real names. It’s no different than any other kind of entertainer using stage names. I mean, stage/pen names are basically the same thing. Karrine Steffans was mine. It had a ten-year run, which is my initial plan for the pen name to start in 2005 and finish her off in 2015. Everything I do is very calculated and very much on purpose. With purpose. Same thing with Elisabeth. Elisabeth is not my birth name. As Elisabeth is not my first name.”
She added, “Ovesen is my family name. It’s an old, good, strong Danish family name. But Elisabeth is not my first name.”
“There are more pen names out there that I write under when I’m writing certain articles or essays, when I want to remain anonymous, and then there are more pen names coming as I venture into fiction. So every pen name is a brand. Every pen name does something different. And you wouldn’t want Karrine Stephen’s writing children’s books, right?” Ovesen explained.
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