Remember these VIDEO VIXEN?
MTV ladies recall highs & lows with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll
N the ’80s and ’90s heyday of MTV, video vixens — women with beauty-queen looks and sultry moves — got as much screen time as the male acts they supported. Some even became stars in their own right: writing books, hosting TV shows and appearing in movies. Others got caught up in sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Tawny Kitaen, who died on May 7 at age 59, was an MTV icon thanks to the 1987 Whitesnake video for “Here I Go Again” — in which she cartwheeled and preened atop the hoods of two Jaguars, hanging out the window of one driven by her then-boyfriend (and later husband), singer David Coverdale. But she also battled the same demons that often afflict rockers. In 2006, Kitaen was charged with possessing 15 grams of cocaine. In 2019, she was arrested for her second DUI.
Jeana Keough, a ZZ Top video siren-turned-“Real Housewife of Orange County,” recalled Kitaen as “a talented actress, beautiful and sexy. Chuck [Finley, Kitaen’s ex-husband who played baseball for the Anaheim Angels] would be pitching and she’d distract him.”
Bobbie Brown, who gained fame as the hot blonde in Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” video, met Kitaen five years ago when they hosted a rock festival together. “She was like a woman-child who had naiveté,” Brown told The Post. “She was hurt by a lot of s--t on the inside [but] she lived in a bubble. She was amazing.”
Here’s what five video vixens are up to today.