Janice Dickinson: The Original Blog

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2007-12-24T14:38:00.000-08:00

"I WAS never involved with sleazes, unless the sleaze was super-hot, in which case abso-fucking-lutely!" - ex-supermodel Janice Dickinson to London's Observer.

Over One million visitors!

2007-12-19T22:45:00.000-08:00

Finally after all these years my Janice Dickinson site has made it to over
one million hits, thanks mostly to her stint on the U.K.'s "I'm a celebrity
get me outta here!"

here is a clip from the show

Janice weighs in on underage models

2007-12-10T10:50:00.000-08:00

How young is too young for girls to model?
World’s first supermodel worries what could befall 13-year-old Australian

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:30 a.m. ET, Tues., Sept. 18, 2007

Janice Dickinson was the world’s first supermodel, and she doesn’t care how adult and graceful Australian model Maddison Gabriel looks on a fashion runway. At barely 13 years of age, she’s just too young, Dickinson said.

“There’s lots of drugs, there’s lots of alcohol, there’s lots of photographers preying on these girls,” Dickinson said Tuesday on TODAY. “Thirteen is way too young.”

Maddison turned 13 on Sunday; she was still 12 when she was chosen as the “face” and official ambassador of the Gold Coast Fashion Week in Australia. At 5 feet 7 inches, the blue-eyed girl has the looks and the moves to model clothing — some of it provocative — designed for women two and three times her age.

“It doesn’t matter about the age,” she says with adolescent insouciance. “It matters that you can do the job. I can fit into women’s clothes. I can model women’s clothes, so I should be able to do it.”

“Well, there’s babies on TV, isn’t there, doing commercials,” says her mother, Michelle Gabriel, who has been wildly criticized in Australia for allowing her daughter to start modeling at such a young age. “You tell me. What is too young?”
TODAY
Maddison Gabriel

The Gabriels were in London when they made those statements recently. Maddison can not work as a fashion model in Europe, though; the age limit for runway work there is 16.

And Dickinson said that she will not allow any girls under 18 to model for her agency.

“I have about 32 girls who are dying to break that 18-year-old mark,” she told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer. “Get your high school diploma and then come and see me.”

Dickinson knows what she’s talking about. Born in 1955 in Brooklyn to parents she’s described as dysfunctional at best, she went to Europe to become a model in the 1970s and catapulted to stardom.

She also leaped into the world of Studio 54, alcohol, drugs and indiscriminate sex, once telling Howard Stern that she had slept with at least 1,000 men.

Dickinson, who still looks spectacular at 52, is sober now, the owner of her own modeling agency and a judge on “America’s Next Top Model.” She also appears on “The Surreal Life.”

Is 13-year-old too young to model?

source: MSNBC.com / Today Show

Janice Dickinson: "Tyra Banks Is Fat"

2007-12-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

Janice Dickinson Defends Hewitt In A Bikini As Healthy: "Tyra Banks Is Fat"

The Today Show is not one to miss an opportunity to show off the Jennifer Love Hewitt bikini pictures.

They continued the streak today by inviting Janice Dickinson, the self-described first supermodel, and discussed whether a size 2 is fat. Janice defended Hewitt, called her "healthy" and "not emaciated." She continued, "You want to see someone who's fat, I'm sorry, Tyra, Tyra Banks is fat." Banks used to be Dickinson's boss in the early seasons of "America's Next Top Model" and has herself been the subject of unflattering bathing suit photos.

After she was confronted by Al Roker about the remark, she sort of backed off, but it's unclear is she was being genuine.

source: The Huffington Post

Janice 2nd on "I'm a Celebrity..."

2007-12-01T10:36:00.000-08:00

Janice is runner up

“Oh maaaaaaaan!” Janice was pipped to the podium by Jungle King Biggins.

Branded a “big, bold and beautiful lunatic” by Katie, Janice Dickinson is one contestant that we won’t forget in a hurry.

And with a rat bite and record 10 Bushtucker Trials under her belt, we have a feeling that the experience made a bit of a mark on the lady herself too.

“I thought it was a holiday,” the former supermodel barked as she bounded back from the jungle. “I thought it was a spa, and I thought I was going to get a shot at him!” she added, pointing at Dec.

“I’m sort of a room service kind of girl, or so I thought. I feel like I’ve really conquered some fears.” And she couldn’t have done it without the support of our hosts with the most.

Yes, after cracking on to Dec, nicknaming Ant “Junior”, and finally conquering those cockroaches in her final stunning Trial, Stake Out, was Janice really that terrified as she shrieked, “I can’t eat croc d**k, are you insane?”

“I meant it,” she insisted. “There was no acting about it, otherwise I would be in Hollywood."

And did The Dickinson think that she’d romp all the way to the final?

“Noo!” she hollered at the boys. “I’m elated. I got this far, I’m grateful to the people of the United Kingdom… A rat came onto my bed and took a chomp. I got beaten up, knocked over, bowled over and bitten.

“I didn’t think I’d make it through anything. I equate this to the delivery of my two children – the most difficult thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.

“It’s been the biggest, most extraordinary experience in my life and I’m so grateful for everything I’m A Celebrity has given me.

“God save the King!” she bawled, as her interview wrapped and she leapt towards the bridge.

'Here here!' we holler, and bottoms up to the both of you.

source: ITV

I'm A Celeb's Janice attacks Cerys for romance with Marc

2007-11-27T18:30:00.000-08:00

I'm a Celeb contestant Janice Dickinson spoke out in camp last night, suggesting Marc Bannerman's eviction was due to his budding romance with fellow mate Cerys Matthews.

The supermodel left Catatonia front-woman Cerys speechless as she claimed she would never have behaved in the same way with any member of camp and that she would be devastated to see her own boyfriend developing feelings for someone on screen.

Janice's attacks came in response to Cerys's confusion as to why Marc was voted off the show, advising her that she should be careful about how she behaves on television.

Janice said: "He's like a really handsome guy but every time he hugged me I had to break away because if my boyfriend saw me hugging that guy in the jungle...

"If I was watching my boyfriend hug you in the jungle I would cut his f***in' d**k off," She added.

Contestant Rodney Marsh added: "So what's so hard to understand from that point of view then?"

Cerys was left worried and blank faced as the weight of her actions started to dawn on her but a loyal Anna Ryder Richardson jumped to her defence, saying: "Yes but he did hug everybody."

However, an adamant Janice insisted: "No, he didn't hug me," later adding in the Bush Telegraph: "There's a whole lot of reachy-reachy touchy-touchy that can take place in a hammock and they were in the hammock every night."

Bannerman's eviction has changed the dynamic in camp and added to the already unsettling tension caused by arguments between the older members of the camp, mainly Lynne Franks and Rodney Marsh.

Anna said: “Marc has left a massive hole in all of us actually, in every single one of us and we were all gobsmacked is the only word I can say.”

Meanwhile, serial Bushtucker Trial participants Janice and Lynne breathed a sigh of relief when Cerys and Gemma Atkinson were chosen to perform Thursday's task.

Cerys performed her first ever trial, in contrast to the former supermodel, who took part in her eighth trial during Wednesday's episode.

The trial came as a pleasant distraction to Cerys as she claimed the trial would help keep her mind busy after Marc's eviction.

Ex-Hollyoaks babe Gemma and Cerys greeted presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, who declared they were pleased to see new faces taking part in the tasks, instead of the usual participants Janice and Lynne.

Welsh singer Cerys said: "That's right, virgin trialists."

Dec went on to explain the Bat Out Of Hell task, which involved the girls being strapped into a reverse bungee.

Cerys and Gemma would then be flung into the air and would attempt to throw paint-covered tennis balls at an inflatable cone suspended in the air.

For every ball which hits the cone, the camp would win one meal.

As Ultimo underwear model Gemma realised she would be travelling at 50 miles-per-hour, she laughed: "It's a good job we haven't eaten or else we'd be puking."

After two misses, Gemma finally succeeded on her third attempt and won a meal from camp.

The thrilled 23-year-old shouted: "About frigging time, isn't it?"

After Gemma's turn, it was Cerys' time to try, who made no attempt to hide her fear as she screamed during her first ascent.

After scoring two meals during her first two attempts, lucky Cerys managed to hit the bonus black and white section, which meant she had won an extra three meals for her hungry camp-mates.

Ant told a triumphant Cerys: "You could turn into an adrenaline junkie after that – extreme sports and everything."

Cerys admitted: "That's what I'm scared about, this is nuts. It was horrible. I'm absolutely still shaking it was good but when you realise you've got to fall it's just not right."

Gemma agreed: "I hated it... not a nice feeling."

The two girls happily returned to camp with a total of six meals.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

'Put your kids first,' I'm a Celeb's Janice warns loved-up Cerys

2007-11-27T18:26:00.000-08:00

I'm A Celebrity ... Get me out of here! contestant Janice Dickinson has warned mother-of-two Cerys Matthews to be careful with men and to put her children first.

Janice, 52, dished out the advice, replacing recently evicted Anna Ryder Richardson as Cerys' confidante, after Catatonia front-woman Cerys' feelings for ex-camper Marc Bannerman appeared to become even stronger throughout her time in the jungle.

Dickinson maintained that she was happy for Cerys, 32, but warned her to take things slowly as the embarassed singer was barely able to mutter a response.

anice said: "You need someone who wants the package deal. The children have to come first. Go slow."

Opinionated Janice used her own disastrous past experiences as an example of how Cerys could be making a mistake in pursuing her relationship with the former Eastenders star.

Janice: "There are guys that, yes, they want it at first, to be with the woman and they love the children and then they push the children out. It's happened to me on several occasions. It's the first thing I look for."

Bannerman and Matthews' flirtations in the jungle caused outrage as he had a girlfriend of two years, resulting in Marc's eviction and the break up of his relationship with actress Sarah Matravers.

As Matravers appears to have moved out of the home she shared with Marc, 34, Cerys has been discussing their own future, with fellow campers alluding to a possible wedding.

Although Cerys claims she will never remarry following her recent divorce from American music producer Seth Riddle, father of her two young children Glenys Pearl Y-Felin and Johnny Tupelo Jones, she has been excited by the prospect that Bannerman may be greeting her in Australia when she leaves the show.

Meanwhile, loudmouth Janice took the opportunity to open up about her past, admitting to an alcohol addiction that compromised her competence as a parent.

The three-times-divorced mother-of-two, who claims to have bedded an array of stars including Jack Nicholson and Mick Jagger, said if she could change anything in her life she would try not to be so angry and wouldn't have been unfaithful in her marriage.

Speaking to Cerys around the campfire in a rare moment of introspection, she said: "I wish someone was watching me because I was way too young and the alcohol was way too prevalent; it was free and I drank the whole tray. I came from a poor background. I regret that."

The heart-felt talk added to the downbeat mood after Anna's departure as the sixth contestant to be evicted. The camp mates were all shocked when Anna left, expressing their sadnessn - apart from Janice who said she was glad and was set on winning the show.

After Anna left, Cerys said: "I really feel like I have lost a sister now that Anna's gone. Anna and I got really really close. We'd just hang out on a log all the time and I miss her very much.

Ex-Five band member "J" said: "I'm really sad to see Anna go, she's an absolutely lovely, lovely woman."

Panto star Christopher Biggins agreed, adding: "I have been through a lot with Anna, she's absolutely gorgeous, I love her. From day one she was a real good egg."

But Janice said: "I am happy to see Anna go. She didn't want to be here. She complained the whole time. This wasn't right, that wasn't right. Maybe she's just typically English.

"I want to win. I want to be here for the duration. I deserve it."

source: Dailymail.co.uk

Janice Dickinson gets even more bitchy in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

2007-11-27T18:20:00.000-08:00

Bitchy supermodel Janice Dickinson told her jungle rival to wear an ostrich food suit during a trial because there was more of her to eat.

The snide comment was made during the ‘Nip Pluck’ bushtucker trial, which saw Janice operating a giant claw that moved Lynne around an ostrich pen.

PR guru Lynne Franks, dressed in a yellow suit covered in bird food, had to pick up stars with her feet for reality show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.

“I’ll operate,” said Janice after the challenge was explained.

“Why doesn’t that surprise me,” moaned Lynne.

“There’s more on you to pluck. There’s nothing to pluck on me. They’re going to love you,” gushed Janice.

But despite getting off on the wrong foot, the bickering pair managed to work as a team and secure seven out of eleven stars.

And there was no rest for the wicked. Janice faced her sixth trial, crawling along a 200ft high rope collecting flags and dropping them to ex-footballer Rodney Marsh on a cable below.

After falling off seven times, he moaned: “I am absolutely knackered. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything as physically demanding as that.” They returned to the camp with just two stars.

“It was 100 per cent my fault so I’m not going to join in the food tonight,” said Rodney.

Lynne is next up for the bushtucker trial - the Tunnel of Terror. She will be forced to retrieve stars from a tunnel full of rats and spiders.

source: Showbiz Sky

Janice Dickinson: ‘I’m going to have sex with wombats’

2007-11-27T18:16:00.000-08:00

‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ star Janice Dickinson has revealed her cunning plan to be crowned queen of the jungle.

‘I’m going to have sex with wombats,’ she screams. ‘I dated Mick Jagger – you don’t think I could have sex with wombats? I’m also going to get naked. They asked me to wear a modesty suit – as if you limeys don’t take your clothes off.’

52-year-old Janice, says that she always knew jungle life would be a challenge for someone as high-maintenance as she is.

‘I’m a room service kinda girl,’ she says. ‘I wanted to wear 9in Manolos, but they say they’re not good for the outback. I’ve got my Vivienne Westwood corset, though. If I’m strapped into that I don’t think a snake will have the bottle to climb down my cleavage.’

Janice also hatched a plan to smuggle some contraband into the jungle, she said: ‘I’ll try anything I can get into any open hole,’ she boasts. ‘There’s 27ft of colon in your body, so God knows what you can jam up there. I’ll be like Midnight Express. Pounds of illicit devices will fall out of my ass.’

See the full interview in Britain’s Now magazine, which is out now.

Source: Showbiz Spy

Janice Dickinson blasts Jerry Hall

2007-11-27T18:11:00.000-08:00

Janice Dickinson- (”The world’s first supermodel”) has refueled her battle with her former rival in love, Jerry Hall.

Janice and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger dated in the late 1970s, before Jagger in with Hall, whom he went on to marry in 1990.

Dickinson says, “Jerry hated me, but she can fuck off and die.

“No one scares me. I tossed Mick out after eight months because I didn’t want to move to London. It was my choice, not a matter of him choosing Jerry over me.”

Hall and Jagger’s marriage was annulled in 1999 after it was revealed the rocker had fathered a son Lucas, with Brazilian model/TV presenter Lucia Gilmenez.

Anything to get a mention, I suppose- she does have a new TV show to promote.

source: Showbiz Spy

Janice Dickinson tells Gemma Atkinson to roll about in chocolate

2007-11-27T18:07:00.000-08:00

Gemma Atkinson Former supermodel Janice Dickinson, who claims to have had 1,000 lovers - has been giving glamor model Gemma Atkinson advice on how to spice-up her sex life.

Dickinson, 52, claims that a bar of chocolate is a very erotic thing to rub all over your body.

“Janice was on about using melted chocolate,” Gemma told jungle pal Jason ‘J’ Brown, reports Britain’s Daily Star newspaper.

“She said I should roll about in it. It sounds amazing. But to be quite honest, I’d probably be far too busy eating it.”

Atkinson, 23 - who has been romantically linked to footballer Cristiano Ronaldo - is now rumored to be dating Wigan Athletic footballer Marcus Bent.

source: Showbiz Spy

Gallery Of The Absurd

2007-11-20T22:18:00.001-08:00

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Gallery Of The Absurd

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Gallery Of The Absurd

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Jungle Janice: I'm a CeLESBrity!

2007-11-18T18:36:00.000-08:00

By Gemma Calvert
JUNGLE wildcat Janice Dickinson cheetah-ed on Mick Jagger to get her claws into a blonde for some hot lesbian love.

The former supermodel was meant to be CONSOLING her best pal—a "gorgeous platinum beauty" called Pia—after she split from Mick's fellow Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.

But Janice revealed: "One thing led to another and before long I was crossing the line.

"Pia and I ended up spending an awesome evening together—having the best sex ever. Maybe it was her grief at losing one of the greatest rock guitarists in history.

"Or maybe she was just horny.

"Whatever. As girl-on-girl interludes go, it was hot, steamy and wild."

Loudmouth Janice, who boasts a "perfect" 36C-24-34 figure, also claims to have bedded actress Kelly LeBrock and singer Grace Jones as well as a string of Hollywood males including Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson, and Bruce Willis.

And though she is now dating cameraman Tommy Fry, she says she prefers women.

"You get to have sex, swap shoes and that toilet seat stays down at all times," she explained.

Now unsuspecting female campers, including stunning Gemma Atkinson, 23, and Apprentice bitch Katie Hopkins, 32, could find themselves being hunted down by sex-mad Janice in the Australian jungle.

The botoxed beauty, now 52, had her best-friend fling in the mid-80s, at the height of her affair with Jagger.But though she claims to have had hundreds of lovers since, she can't forget it.

"My night with Pia remains an awesome memory." she sighed.

source: News of the World

Ouch! The thing Mick Jagger did to increase the size of his peepee…

2007-11-16T01:58:00.000-08:00

This story has a sting to it… Mick Jagger went through great lengths to increase the size of his penis after a former girlfriend criticized the size of it according to AZ Central. Janice Dickinson told an interviewer, "Mick has a very small penis." Well Mick for obvious reason was embarrassed and decided to make a change to what Janice said. According to Julien Temple this is what he did, "It involved putting bamboo over the male member and filling it with stinger bees so the member attained the size of the bamboo. Mick spent months in the jungle in Peru. He was going mad out there I think." Yes you read that right he got a bunch of bees to sting his penis in the hopes it would swell the size. I am female and even I feel the pain of that. Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!

And just a side note, maybe he isn't that small it is Janice Dickinson's perception of what a normal man's penis size should be, if you know what I mean…

source: seriouslyomg.com

Janice Dickinson Gets Tummy Tuck and Neck Lift

2007-11-15T22:35:00.000-08:00

Wednesday October 10, 2007

Janice Dickinson, an outspoken fan of plastic surgery, has some new work she will soon take public.

Usmagazine.com has learned exclusively that Dickinson, 52, the self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel," underwent a tummy tuck and "mini neck lift" Monday in Beverly Hills. The surgeon: Dr. Frank Ryan, the plastic surgeon to the stars who famously augmented the breasts of Hills star Heidi Montag.

A source tells Us that while "Janice knows people will think she didn't need a tummy tuck," she's been complaining about "a lot of extra skin" on her lower abdomen and wanted tighter abs. The source adds that she opted for the mini neck lift as an after thought because "she might as well since she was going under."

According to the source, Dickinson, star of Oxygen Network's Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, is now resting at the Serenity after-care center in Santa Monica.

Just prior to having a facelift in 2004, Dickinson explained the appeal of plastic surgery to Entertainment Tonight: "I consider plastic surgery important because I'm in front of the camera, I still model, and, quite frankly, I was noticing my skin looking like a turkey wobbler. I'm just trying to hang on to what I got."

A rep for Dickinson couldn't be reached for comment.

source: Us Magazine

Janice Dickinson warns Katie Hopkins: 'I'm reigning queen of bitches'

2007-11-15T20:49:00.000-08:00

Fireworks were expected to fly on I'm A Celebrity after self-confessed man-eater Katie Hopkins was flown into the jungle to join an already warring camp.

Contestants Janice Dickinson and Lynne Franks have been at loggerheads in the reality TV show with name-calling and threats of violence all within 24 hours.

Now Miss Hopkins - who became the most reviled contestant in The Apprentice when she boasted of her affairs with married men - has been sent in to set the cat among the pigeons and is tipped to ignite tensions still further.

A show insider said: "It was thought that putting another alpha-female into the camp would be sure to create fireworks. She is another strong character to add to an already headstrong mix."

Miss Hopkins, who described herself as "Simon Cowell in female form", is predicted to vie for the position of least popular camp member amongst her team mates - two of whom have already fallen out in spectacular fashion.

The team, which is made up nearly entirely of women, features self-proclaimed supermodel Miss Dickinson, 52, and PR guru Miss Franks, 59, who were locked in a feud less than 24 hours after being thrown together in the Australian Outback.

Queen Bees: Katie joined fellow alpha females Janice Dickinson (left) and Lynne Franks

Within hours of meeting the former Apprentice Miss Dickinson threw down the gauntlet and declared she was the "reigning queen" of bitches in the camp.

Despite her insults Miss Dickinson redeemed herself last night in her second jungle task.

The camp went hungry after she lost the first trial when she refused to put her head in a tank full of eels.

But yesterday she won nine stars which she threw from a sinking Land Rover submerged in a swamp, beating football pundit Rodney Marsh for the Croc Creek team.

Rumours of romance were also rife as Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews was seen getting cosy with former Eastenders actor Marc Bannerman.

The pair hugged and tickled each other as they flirted in the Croc Creek camp.

Speaking from her five star hotel before her entry into the jungle Miss Hopkins warned: "I do say things as I see them and I do create tensions because I am outrageously honest and therefore rude in many cases to other people's sensitivities.

"But for people who don't know me well I am a breath of fresh air, I am a sort of Simon Cowell in female form without perhaps the witty one-liners that he's got.

"I say things as they are and normally it's not something you see in a woman."

She added: "Men particularly can do it, women aren't allowed to but I say b*******s to that and you know, I think it's a good thing."

Hopkins is a replacement for former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren who dramatically quit the show before even entering the camp.

The mother of two's inclusion means that Jason "J" Brown is the lone male in the tempestuous group.

She surprised Snake Rock camper Gemma Atkinson by appearing from the jungle fauna after the glamour girl was sent to bring a treasure chest back to camp.

The former Met Office employee, who was fired following negative publicity in the Apprentice, admitted that she tends to be impatient.

She said: "I don't like moaners, I don't like people that drip, I don't like lazy people, I don't like doom and gloom people and I don't like people who are very 'me'. I would have to take the p*** out of them."

Miss Hopkins established her reputation as a homewrecker after naked pictures of the 32 year-old man-eater romping in a field with married colleague Mark Cross, 43, were published this year.

The couple now live together and plan to marry after Mr Cross' divorce is finalised.

Both Miss Hopkins and former supermodel Miss Dickinson, 53, pride themselves on speaking their mind which is sure to result in explosive catfights.

Miss Dickinson has already boasted she "grew up in a swamp" with outdoors survival skills while Hopkins is a graduate of Sandhurst military academy.

Friendships have been slow to form in the first 24 hours of jungle life.

Janice Dickinson and Lynne Franks had an immediate personality clash with Dickinson branding Franks a "shrew" while the PR guru retaliated and called her "brash" and "aggressive".

Before even making it into camp Miss Dickinson - who had a tummy tuck and neck lift in preparation for camp life - warned Franks: "You don't want me as an enemy - say nice things about me."

The Crocs have proved themselves the more harmonious team made up of interior design presenter Anna Ryder Richardson, ex-Eastenders actor Mark Bannerman, pop singer Cerys Matthews and Michelin-starred chef John Burton Race.

While the Snakes canoed into camp the Crocs made a 1000 foot bungee jump from a helicopter, a feat which made both Cerys Matthews and Ryder Richardson cry with fear.

source: This is London

She's naughty but Ja-Nice

2007-11-14T23:08:00.000-08:00

SHE'S quickly turning into our favourite I'm A Celebrity contestant ever.

Janice Dickinson – who dubbed herself the world’s first ever supermodel – is having a right old jaunt in the jungle.

So we thought it fitting to dedicate a slideshow to the woman who has been going ape in the outback.

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Janice has already stirred up a swarm of hornets’ nests by outbitching her female rivals on the show including wicked Apprentice woman Katie Hopkins and simpering PR Lynne Franks.

But Janice has a track record behind her that makes Kate Moss, Courtney Love, Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears seem like a group of nuns on a Sunday morning.

She’s worn out legendary A-list swordsmen including Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger.

Then there’s been Die Hard star Bruce Willis and Rocky legend Sly Stallone.

Not to mention trysts with female stars such as Kelly LeBrock and Grace Jones.

And that was all topped off with more than a lion's share of drugs – some of which probably even Pete Doherty has never heard of.

Janice is really wizard in Oz!

source: The Sun

Janice says No! sushi in trial

2007-11-14T23:06:00.000-08:00

JANICE DICKINSON refuses to gobble up a plate of locusts in today's gruelling Bushtucker Trial.

The sagging supermodel was picked for her third trial in a row - and was delighted when she heard it was called the Sushi Train Of Pain.

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However when she realised it wasn't sashimi on the menu she soon had a change of heart!

Are Snake Rock about to go hungry again?

I'm A Celebrity is on ITV1 tonight from 9pm.

Janice Dickinson hooked on plastic surgery.

2007-11-14T23:01:00.001-08:00

MOTORMOUTH Janice Dickinson used to binge on booze and drugs - now she’s hooked on plastic surgery.

It all started out with an op to fix a BUNION.

Since then the legendary American supermodel has had Botox, a boob job, breast lift, eye bag removal, eyelid surgery, cheek implants, jowl removal, brow lift, tummy tuck and collagen implants.

It all started out with an op to fix a BUNION.

Since then the legendary American supermodel has had Botox, a boob job, breast lift, eye bag removal, eyelid surgery, cheek implants, jowl removal, brow lift, tummy tuck and collagen implants.

Janice, 52, said: “Suddenly, there seemed to be nothing that a good doctor with a sharp scalpel and a clever payment plan couldn’t help with. My t*ts were the obvious next stop.”

Ex-lover Sylvester Stallone helped out and Janice revealed: “Sly passed out new boobs like they were gifts just for hanging out with him.

“Having this work feels like redecorating your house - you buy a new couch, and the carpeting looks rubbish. So you put in new fixtures. It never ends!”
Janice, 52, said: “Suddenly, there seemed to be nothing that a good doctor with a sharp scalpel and a clever payment plan couldn’t help with. My t*ts were the obvious next stop.”

Ex-lover Sylvester Stallone helped out and Janice revealed: “Sly passed out new boobs like they were gifts just for hanging out with him.

“Having this work feels like redecorating your house - you buy a new couch, and the carpeting looks rubbish. So you put in new fixtures. It never ends!

source: The Sun

Jan fancies Brit star Tom Jones

2007-11-14T22:57:00.000-08:00

By NADIA MENDOZA

Published: Today

GOBBY Janice Dickinson is in love - with our very own Brit sensation Tom Jones.

The supermodel was left open-mouthed when Gemma told her Cerys recorded a duet with the Welsh warbler.

Janice said: "What! He was my childhood idol. Oh my God!

"When I was a little girl Tom Jones was my favourite in the whole wide world."

The Catatonia singer collaborated with the Sex Bomb star for 1999 hit Baby, It's Cold Outside.

Janice said to Cerys: "Gemma told me who you are.

"I'm truly gobsmacked."

She added: "He's the nicest man. I met him in Beverly Hills once.

"He was with his wife, but when I saw him he told me to give him a kiss."

Cerys agreed, saying he was gorgeous.

source: The Sun

SHE calls herself the World’s First Supermodel.

2007-11-14T22:50:00.000-08:00

My Wild sex! Janice tells all

But Janice Dickinson is better known for being showbiz’s wildest starlet, years before Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

The Botoxed motormouth slept with Hollywood’s most famous men - and women - as her modeling career took off in the Seventies.

Janice, 52, says she bedded the likes of Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Bruce Willis and Frank Zappa.

She also claims to have romped with Grace Jones and The Woman in Red star Kelly LeBrock.

Then there’s the small matter of three marriages as Janice earned a reputation as a legendary maneater.

Snorted

Talking about the wild ’70s, Janice laughed: “That era was a buffet of surgery, puking, drugs, booze and moments so horrifying that even remembering them gives me wrinkles.”

Four star lovers ... Mick, Jack, Bruce, Warren

Four star lovers ... Mick, Jack, Bruce, Warren

The brash brunette snorted cocaine with John Belushi, drank herself into a stupor constantly and starved herself for days on end to stay skinny during her modelling years.

Even at the age of 14, Janice would go over to the home of a friend and “get stoned” in the afternoons.

But she sweated hard to make it as a model.

By 1979 she was on the cover of world-famous magazines such as Vogue, Cosmo and Elle and strutting down the catwalk for Calvin Klein, Gianni Versace and Valentino.

Janice even claims to have coined the term supermodel after her agent warned her not to accept every job, saying: “You’re going to get sick - do you think you’re Superman?”.

Dickinson quipped: “No, I’m Supermodel.”

In between she found time to wed three times and have a string of flings.

She divorced first hubby, musician Ron Levy in the late 70s.

Bounded

Then Janice wed Simon Fields in 1987 and had son Nate but split in 1992.

Dickinson next tied the knot with Al Gersten in 1995 in a flamboyant red dress - but that marriage lasted little less than a year.

Spilling the beans on her affairs she said Die Hard hunk Bruce Willis “was the kind of sweetheart who bounded out of bed to go buy you breakfast”.

Legendary ladies’ man Warren Beatty “knew where everything was and what to do with it” but she grew tired of him when she found him gazing at himself in the mirror in the middle of the night.

Janice dumped Beatty at a party to go home with super-rogue Jack Nicholson who “had a great smile and was irresistibly funny”.

Sly look ... Janice and Stallone

Sly look ... Janice and Stallone

She said: “He was surrounded by the most gorgeous models in the business but he behaved as if I were the only one in the room. So I left with Jack — much to Warren’s chagrin — and we went back to the Carlyle (hotel) where he had a suite.”

She dated Rolling Stone Mick Jagger after meeting him at a club in LA and he began dancing with her.

He filled her hotel room with pink roses just hours later, leaving a note saying: “Meet me after work. Prince Philip.”

Janice said: “Mick has more energy in bed than a heat-seeking missile. Our affair was very physical. I was madly in love with him.”

Jagger’s girlfriend Jerry Hall famously phoned her and told her to stay away, warning: “I have a gun in my purse and know how to use it.”

But Janice sneered: “No one scares me. I tossed Mick out after eight months because I didn’t want to move to London. It was my choice.”

Dickinson’s most celebrated conquest is Rambo and Rocky legend Sylvester Stallone.

They met in Los Angeles when she had started work as a photographer and was shooting a naked Naomi Campbell when Sly barrelled up out of the blue.

Smitten Dickinson was married to Simon Fields at the time but soon dumped him.

The torrid affair ended when she became pregnant and Stallone denied the baby girl was his - insisting on a DNA test.

He was proved right.

And in 1993 he moaned being with Janice had been “like hanging in Satan’s armpit”.

Dickinson also claimed she spent several days in a hotel room with Grace Jones and actor Dolph Lundgren having wild sex.

No regrets ... megamouth
Janice now

No regrets ... megamouth
Janice now

The leggy model boasted she had had an affair with Kelly LeBrock, describing how once after staying up all night having sex she was awoken by Kelly’s maid. So she fired her and went back to bed.

Now Dickinson has her sights set on Sir Paul McCartney - mocking his estranged wife Heather Mills.

She said: “I have my eye on Paul. He was my favourite Beatle and I fell for him years ago. I’ve contacted him recently after seeing what he’s gone through with Heather Mills. She’s a fool.”

Janice insists she would never change her wild past and roared: “Would I do it all again? You bet I would.”

But as her fame had grown back then, so her drink and drug use spiralled out of control.

She admits: “Even today in my darkest moments, I want a drink so badly my entire body is screaming.”

Janice confesses she spent two days before a dinner with former US President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy “feasting on diet pills, coke, uppers and downers”.

Tumbled

During one boozing session, she even tumbled off a a catwalk into the lap of movie queen Sophia Loren.

But the one-time party animal has settled down with her children Nathan, 20, and Savannah, 13, and cameraman boyfriend Tommy Fry.

But, typically, Janice still brags: “I’m 52 but 20-year-olds line up in droves. One of my son’s friends called me the other night asking for it. My son would go mad if he found out.”

Oops, we think he just might have.

source: The Sun

2007-11-14T13:54:00.003-08:00

Janice "IACGMOOH" news

Former model Janice Dickinson has cost her I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! team-mates a meal, after losing the first Bushtucker Trial in the series.

Janice had insisted she should represent the 'Snake Rock' in the contest against 'Croc Creek' member Marc Bannerman, telling her team-mates: "I'm ready to win. You know I will do my very best, 100 per cent to kick ass no matter what if I have to eat, sleep, s**t, f**k, whatever I'll do it."

And her determination might have got the better of her, after the minutiae of the first task was revealed.

Janice and former EastEnders actor Marc were strapped into a giant cog wheel from which they were required to collect stars held in a carriage on a miniature railway line below them.

And after being strapped in, Janice commented: "Wow, this is so S and M, I think I like it."

But of course, the celebrities had some rather unpleasant company for their first Bushtucker Trial, with the first carriage containing eels.

Janice squirmed at the slimy sea-dwellers, and though she fared better with the second carriage of fish guts, a third carriage of mealworms was too much for her and she conceded the trial to Marc.

Celebrating having grabbed all three stars, Marc - who played Gianni di Marco on the BBC1 soap - said: "Fantastic! I would have had to hang my head in shame had I have gone back without a meal."

Janice later clashed with PR guru Lynne Franks while cooking dinner and 'joked' about stabbing her.

Janice on Brit

2007-11-14T13:54:00.001-08:00

Former supermodel JANICE DICKINSON is offering her assistance to troubled star BRITNEY SPEARS. The 52-year-old, who overcame her own well-publicised battle with drink and drugs, is convinced the young singer would benefit from her advice. She tells TMZ.com, "Britney needs my help."

Tyra Fired Me

2007-11-14T13:53:00.001-08:00

Archive 9/20/05

Former supermodel JANICE DICKINSON has declared she was fired from her role as a judge on TYRA BANKS' AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, shooting down claims she walked away from the reality show.

Earlier this year (05), it had been announced that British beauty TWIGGY would be replacing tough-talking Dickinson, who fans believed had left the show to star in the latest season of the hit reality series THE SURREAL LIFE.

But Dickinson now explains to Radar magazine, "I got fired. At first it was a trip. I believed in the show and it was fun. But after a few episodes I began getting labeled a bitch, and that got to me.

"I was just telling the truth and I was saving these girls from going out there and being told that they're too short, too fat, their skin's not good enough. I was to America's Next Top Model what SIMON COWELL is to AMERICAN IDOL.

"I'd rather be an honest bitch than some a*s-kissing, sugar-coating, namby-pamby, wiping-a*s motherf**ker. I made the show number one in 52 countries. And then I got the sack, and the UPN executives replaced me with Twiggy. No one in America knows who Twiggy is. There's no way anyone could fill my shoes. There's no way."

She adds of her former colleague, "Tyra's no walk in the park. Tyra's really righteous."

2007-11-14T13:52:00.002-08:00

Janice Dickinson, superannuated supermodel
WOMAN OF THE WEEK

THE term "maneater" is an oft abused one, but, in the case of Janice Dickinson, the self-anointed "world's first supermodel" and one of the cast of the latest series of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! which kicked off on ITV last night, it may just be accurate. Storming into a room on the I'm A Celebrity ... set last weekend, Dickinson, 52, eyed up 32-year-old Declan Donnelly, one half of the show's presenting duo Ant and Dec, and seemingly oblivious to his identity declared: "Another hottie! Hi, where are you from?"

But then why would you expect anything but terrifying boldness from the woman who recently claimed on the US radio programme The Howard Stern Show to have slept with more than 1,000 men (including Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone and Frank Zappa), has been divorced three times, and proudly calls herself "big-lipped Janice"?

While not yet a household name in the UK, Dickinson has been delighting gossip columnists in America since the early 1970s, when she became one of the first celebrity models, gracing the covers of Vogue and Elle magazines by day and partying with Andy Warhol and Truman Capote at Studio 54 by night. By 1979 she was one of the world's most recognisable models, the face of Revlon and a muse to Versace, Valentino, Alaia and other leading couturiers.

After three marriages, two children, copious amounts of substance abuse and the inevitable ravages of time, her modelling career was generally perceived to be on the wane - but then she was cannily hired by fellow former model Tyra Banks in 2002 to be "the Simon Cowell" of reality TV show America's Next Top Model, and Dickinson's frank, bitchy persona found a whole new audience. Her breathtakingly catty remarks ("you're too fat for modelling, honey") and all-or-nothing attitude ("you're dead to me now") made her an instant star, equally loved and loathed by millions of viewers.

In the end, she was allegedly fired from the show by Banks for her mouthy attitude, but, undaunted, went on to star in a rival show, Janice Dickinson's Modelling Agency, in which she attempted to sign up her own army of models, berated 19-year-olds for having miniscule amounts of cellulite, and jumped into swimming pools wearing thousands of dollars' worth of designer clothing.

She is remarkably up front about having had plastic surgery, saying that "without the fake breasts and the face lift, there'd be a middle-aged gray-haired lady staring at you". She was even filmed getting Botox injections for her show.

What you see is what you get with Dickinson: "I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut." she said recently. Exactly, one imagines, what the producers of I'm A Celebrity... are hoping for.

This article: The Scotsman

Last updated: 13-Nov-07 00:40 GMT

2007-11-14T13:52:00.001-08:00

Janice’s New Hire Has Gay Porn Past

Will Model Mama Feel "Deceived"?

Rodrigo De Carli’s gonna have a lot of ’splainin’ to do! Janice Dickinson’s newest model has dealt with other dicks in his career. De Carli once worked for Chi Chi LaRue under the porn name Claudio Martin.

In addition to appearing in Deceived, the young buck got his fuck on in Raw Footage, Tyler Riggs: Shot for Shot, and some other titilating titles. Those features, of course, didn’t quite make it on De Carli’s resume for Dickinson’s Oxygen-sponsored reality show. A nameless homo tells LA Rag Mag:

Rodrigo wasn’t up front about his “film work” with production and still hasn’t told Janice. People close to him are worried what Janice’s reaction will be since he tried to keep it from her and production.

Bullshit! We bet Dickinson knew, pretended not to know and now hopes this will grab her show - which we honestly forget about, like, weekly - in the gossip columns.

source Queerty.com

2007-11-14T13:50:00.000-08:00

Meet Janice

Age: “None of your business” (but said to be 52)

Occupation: Mother, Super Model, Writer, TV Personality, TV Producer

Celebrity supporters: Duke Snyder (hairdresser)

Phobias: none

Special skills: skiing, swimming and climbing trees.

JANICE DICKINSON is the gobby yummy mummy who is sure to give us an eyeful in a bikini.

She describes herself as the world’s first supermodel, who’s career now spans TV, writing and running a model agency.

Janice was the acid-tongued judge on America's Next Top Model before reportedly being sacked by Tyra Banks.

Despite being firmly against cruelty to animals, she said: “I’ve been around the world, I’ve eaten monkey brain, I’ve eaten ants, and I’ve eaten creepy crawly things.

“I didn’t eat for ten years, so if I don’t have to eat for a month in the jungle, well I’ll probably find some rice or beans or a can of sardines.”

The stunner, who includes Sylvester Stallone and Jack Nicholson amongst her exes, isn't the least bit worried about being filmed 24 hours a day, because she says: “I was born in front of a camera.”

She thinks viewers will relate to her because she is “real, except for my t*ts”.

Janice describes herself as chronically punctual, having a devilish sense of humour, sensitive and patient to a fault.

By NADIA MENDOZA

Published: 10 Nov 2007

Sun magazine

2007-11-13T20:35:00.000-08:00

Janice Dickinson Twelve Days of Christmas

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Janice Dickinson Twelve Days of Christmas

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"Janice Dickinson" offshoot takes over Web

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Oxygen is launching a Web-exclusive offshoot to its series "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency," the women's cable network said Monday.

The six-episode series, dubbed "Abbey & Janice: Beauty & The Best," will debut on the company's broadband channel SheDidWhat.tv (http://SheDidWhat.tv) on December 4, the same night the third season of the Dickinson reality series debuts on the cable channel.

The Web series, the second online-only series produced by Oxygen, will follow Dickinson as she mentors Abbey Clancy, the runner up in the U.K.'s "Next Top Model" competition.

Oxygen was recently acquired by NBC Universal for $925 million.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

2004-03-03T00:24:00.000-08:00

source: Yahoo News

Sweeps Wrap: "Top Model" in Vogue
Tue Mar 2, 7:15 PM ET

UPN, meanwhile, had one of the biggest sweeps success stories with America's Next Top Model. The Tyra Banks (news)-hosted reality series, averaging 6.5 million viewers since its January second-season premiere, kept climbing, hitting an all-time high of 7.6 million last week and taking down WWE Smackdown! as the netlet's signature show.

"Top Models has turned into a monster," CBS chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves said Tuesday. (CBS and UPN share corporate ownership, hence the compliment.)

The show should help UPN edge the WB in the sweeps among total viewers, averaging 3.91 to the Frog's 3.9 million through Monday. The two netlets are tied in the 18-to-49 race.

2004-02-23T20:56:00.000-08:00

Interview With the Vamp
by Philip Weiss

source: New York Observer

A few weeks back, a friend handed me model Janice Dickinson’s autobiography and said it was a juicy tell-all, but under that was a cold understanding of the currency of fashion: the drooling agents and clients, the callous celebrities, the routine personal abuse, the blurred line between prostitution and modeling, etc.

I read No Lifeguard on Duty at once and wasn’t disappointed. Janice Dickinson is a funny and fluid narrator. And while her book got peed on in The New York Times for its unwholesome descriptions of former lovers (Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Liam Neeson), what makes it interesting is her scathing inventory—from age 47, in Los Angeles—of everyone’s desperate behavior, including her own. Young Janice would break down doors to make it, dress like a French whore, do almost anything to get what she wanted. And so would the men she ran into. "You really can sing," Muddy Waters told her, and she believed him, and believed Bill Cosby when he told her the same lie—that is, until she didn’t want to go to bed with him and he blew her off.

I called ReganBooks and learned that Janice Dickinson was coming to New York. I could meet her at the Omni Berkshire Place on East 52nd Street.

I’d been in the Guggenheim room on the second floor all of 10 seconds when I understood Janice Dickinson’s true nature: She’s a viper.

She was coiled in a corner on the floor saying loudly into a phone, "I danced with Justin Timberlake—it was dope," then unfolded her otherworldly legs to introduce herself with crisply condescending formality—"Hello, I’m Janice"—and a fine, long-boned handshake, promptly forgetting my name before stretching out on a window sill to have her makeup done by a guy in faux-lizard pants.

Finding the sun, she swept aside a tabloid with Hillary Clinton on the cover.

"Hillary needs to drop some weight," she said. "She needs better designer clothes."

"Why?"

"She could gain a lot of votes," Ms. Dickinson said.

"From who?"

"Gay makeup artists."

"I don’t think we should talk about politics."

She finally noticed me, with a poisonous look.

"O.K., what do you want to talk about? Plastic surgery? Astronomy? Shoes?"

"Whose shoes are you wearing?"

"Christian Lacroix. They’re Fakkame shoes. That’s Japanese for ‘fuck-me’ shoes."

Too quick and slightly out of control, with a raw edge of need, ribs showing under a slithery dress, the viper was also hungry. She slid off the window sill and sat down to room-service mozzarella and tomato with prosciutto. I sat across from her. The dress was Dolce & Gabbana and low-cut. A heavy green Art Deco amulet teetered over the billowing split of her cleavage. In addition to that—or them—you could see the spirit that it had taken for a young ethnic model to make it, dismissed by stupid people, she said with unsoftened anger, as a "Polish-mutt niggerlips in the era of Dairy Queen Cheryl Tiegs." She was angry today and had been calm yesterday, she filled in candidly, because she was PMS-ing big time, and I felt that she was taunting me with her sexuality.

("When did you come to New York—do you come often?" I said witlessly. "I try to come every day," she replied.)

I pushed her to reflect on how the industry works.

"You made it because you were so tough and driven," I said.

"No, because I was drop-dead gorgeous. I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York. It wasn’t the kind of appreciation I was getting from the agents. It wasn’t till I got to Europe that people started kissing my ass."

"Janice, there are lots of beautiful girls. Very few make it."

Suddenly some tone: "I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft. I looked at every Vogue that came out every month. I’m able to move like no one else you’ve ever seen in front of a camera. I find the light and work it, work it, work it."

"Sure, but your abusive childhood made you so desperate that you did things other people would never have done."

Jaw muscles tensed, ready to strike: "What’s your name? O.K., look, Phil—what was I supposed to do? I weighed out my options. Do I hook? Do I model?"

I thought of the time in the book when young Janice needs cash and Wilhelmina, her agent, says "I know just what you can do," and the next thing Janice is a waitress at an after-hours club where models are offering their sexual services.

"Was Wilhelmina sending you a signal when she told you to be a waitress there?"

Janice was quiet for once.

"I have to think about it. The answer is no. I’m trying to remember. Other agents do sell their models out to Arabs. She wasn’t inferring that to me. But yes, it’s a horrific, horrible business and abuses girls."

The book suggests that there’s a lot of sexual trade in the business. I brought up the Cosby story. Sweet and nice and Mr. American Television, till she says she’s too exhausted to come into his room.

From the book:

"‘Exhausted?’ he asked, and it was clear he was trying hard to keep his temper in check. ‘After all I’ve done for you, that’s what I get? I’m exhausted …. ’"

"‘Well gee Bill, if I had known it was going to be like this—’

"He waved both hands in front of my face, silencing me. Then he gave me the dirtiest, meanest look in the world, stepped into his suite, and slammed the door in my face."

"Oh, he’s so sad," Janice Dickinson said. "He dangled a TV role. And he called me in rehab to come to Tahoe. In rehab! I was shell-shocked, and I’m getting bushels of fruit from Jagger. No one gave a rat’s ass about my sobriety. But you see, that’s the gilded prison of fashion. We’re riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. And trying to fill up the vapid hole with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll."

It reminded me of what an angry player on the Knicks had said a few years back: We’re paid millions of dollars but we can’t open our mouths. It’s just slavery, but for a lot of money. I told Janice Dickinson that story, but couldn’t remember the player’s name.

"Spencer Haywood, I think," she said.

"No, no. This is long after Spencer Haywood. I think it was Larry Johnson."

"Well, Spencer Haywood said the same thing. I used to go to games with his wife, Imam."

"Maybe we shouldn’t talk about basketball."

In a far window, the young blond publicist in a suit was making wind-it-up motions. Janice Dickinson hung in there, with a menacing, nervous high energy.

"That guy in The Times called me a fucking has-been, so I called that motherfucker up," she said. "I led him down the road. I said, ‘I really liked your style of writing.’ ‘You did?’ ‘Yes. I really think you write with aplomb. O.K., now you’ve heard all my superlatives—how can you call me a has-been? I’m a mother of two—the mere fact that I’m not on the society pages, going to crass, dumb, boring-ass parties! I’m a soccer mom in the American microcosm of Bel Air.’"

"What did he do?"

"He apologized. He said he was really sorry. What’s his name?"

"Guy Trebay."

"Yeah. Well, Guy Trebay can eat my ass."

"Were you always this ballsy?"

"Always. God granted me this gruff exterior. But basically, inside, I’m a piece of fluff."

I haven’t conveyed the soul of Janice Dickinson’s book. She was able to write such an honest account because she has been in a 12-step program for alcoholics and survivors of abuse, and was therefore able, she says, to cut off fibers of her being and put them in a book. Janice Dickinson’s childhood was a true horror show. Her father, a Merchant Marine whom she describes as a shit-kicker from West Texas, had three beautiful daughters and abused the eldest sexually. He demanded the same of No. 2, but No. 2 refused to roll. Janice got beaten up for that, but she learned to scare her father back (and seems in the end to have actually killed her father by throwing out a heart prescription he needed). By 14, she was drinking like a Mardis Gras pineappled drunk, she says, and ready to spit venom whenever anyone tried to take advantage of her, all the while dressing like a French whore to make sure that people tried.

The best scenes in the book involve John Belushi. She and Belushi hung out for a while, their manic self-destructive sides calling to one another, and the brilliant Belushi took her to an Atlantic City casino, shouting out across the floor, "Does anyone have any pot?"

When people crowded Belushi for autographs, he showed Janice Dickinson off.

They’ve got the best hookers in the world here, he said. Look at this girl. Where else in the world can you get a girl like this for a hundred bucks?

Between binges, Belushi explained his psychological theories of talent.

"This shit with your father, Janice. What a fucking monster. Telling you you’d never amount to anything. Don’t you see what it’s doing to you? … You keep falling for guys who make you feel like you don’t amount to anything. … It isn’t about any of those assholes. It’s about you; it’s about what happened to you. They’re just assholes. Unfortunately, they’re the assholes you happen to be attracted to, because they remind you of your father. That’s why I’m here …. To tell you that your life would be a lot easier if you were attracted to nice homely fat guys—guys like me."

Belushi was dead a few months later, in spring 1982. Apparently they never had sex, though here the story gets uncharacteristically fuzzy. ("Because he has a widow," Ms. Dickinson explained. "I’m careful about hurting people. Did I fuck John? No. Did I find him attractive? No.")

I was somewhat disappointed by meeting Janice Dickinson because she’s so manic. The book prepares you to meet someone who has stepped out of the fashion world, then calmly sold it out, when the truth is more complex: Janice Dickinson is still in it, still trying. Dancing with Justin Timberlake, showing off her breasts. And not really that interested in another person. In the end, she’s like all forces of nature—you take them on their own terms.

"I suppose I’m being turfy because I’m a writer," I said, "but I wonder how you got down all that great dialogue."

"I have a very vivid imagination," Janice Dickinson said. "And let’s put it this way—" She bent forward with a conspiratorial friendliness. "Everyone steals from something or someone. The great directors do it all the time. I borrow bits from everyone. In all parts of my life. What toothpaste I use. How I fuck."

I looked for a comeback, but had nothing. I was like the mouse after the snake is done, an empty mouse suit with the meat gone. "Why did you write this book?"

"To enable a young child to come out and tell her secrets. I want to give a shout-out to incest survivors and people who might be abused, to get into a program. The secrets almost killed me. I kept the secret of incest. I got hit so hard that I saw stars. It took ’ludes to give me the courage to tell my mother."

"But Janice, without that psychic wound, you’d just be some suburban mom—it gave you fire."

"No, it didn’t! I was born with that fire. I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down. I have incredible fucking energy!" One last forward lunge of the carnivorous cleavage: "I should bottle it and call it ‘Sexy Bitch.’"

"Thank you," I said, and she was gone.

2004-02-23T20:55:00.000-08:00

Wild thing: supermodel Janice Dickinson bares it all. (Buzz).(Interview)
Los Angeles Magazine, Sept, 2002, by Amy Wallace

"LA JANICE" LIES ATOP A TABLE IN A sweltering photo studio. She is on her back. She wears no shirt. Her silicone-enhanced breasts--"my 36C rad puppies"--jut out beneath her black satin brassiere. Her tummy is flat and caramel colored. There are silver rivets running up the seams of her size 6 blue jeans. Her feet are bare, and the way she rests them on the wall above makes her glitter toenail polish catch the light. She is a model. She is 47 years old. She is, she admits, a head case.

Janice Dickinson is getting ready to do the thing that, back in the late '70s and the '80s (what she calls "the Jurassic era of modeling"), put her on the cover of every major fashion magazine in the world: pose. Her makeup man, Kevin, is stenciling on her eyebrows and fixing her face; her hair man, Chad, is blowing out her red-brown mane. It will take hours to become perfect, but that's all right. Dickinson--muse of Versace, lover of Jagger (and Beatty, and Nicholson, and Stallone ...), and mother of two--has much to say to pass the time.

"If you think I'm over-the-top," she says, "I am."

Leaning her head back, she sends her hair cascading over the table's edge, and the words come spilling out of her--just like they did when she sat down to write her new autobiography, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel (Regan Books). She talks fast, sometimes borrowing phrases from people she's met ("Dahlink!" Dickinson says, adding helpfully, "I'm doing Ivana Trump") or from cultural icons ("Willll-bur!" she whinnies, channeling Mr. Ed). In her head, Ivana and the horse complete each other's sentences. Is she wack for wack's sake? It's hard to tell. Especially when she keeps interrupting herself, reciting fragments of disco lyrics ("Don't stop 'til you get enough!") and the phone number of her plastic surgeon ("Call him for comment. Seriously. He's a master. That's why I would let only him touch my face. And my chest. And my ass").

"I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample," she says, remembering the day she called the celebrity book editor Judith Regan to pitch her story. "I was having an invincible moment. I told her how difficult it was for me growing up with an abusive father, how when I went to New York to become a model I was rejected for a year for being `too ethnic.' Judith said, `Okay, I'm in.' And I hadn't even gotten to the A-list actors yet. Because it's not about the men that I dated. It's not about sleeping with Jack Nicholson."

Well, okay, maybe part of it is. In the memoir Dickinson lists a cavalcade of famous suitors. She says Liam Neeson is endowed like a barnyard animal and that Bruce Willis, prestardom, was the kind of sweetheart who bounds out of bed in the morning to go buy you breakfast. Beatty "knew where everything was and what to do with it" (though she reports that as much as he liked sex, he loved staring at himself in the mirror more) Jagger was "indefatigable." Stallone is said to have uttered the phrase "Bam ham slam" after their lovemaking. And Nicholson? The graphic, arrogant thing he supposedly told Dickinson after a night of passion cannot be reprinted here. But it's in the book, she says, because nobody tells Dickinson what to do.

"The reason that line made the book is because he told me not to say anything. And I will never, ever respond to anybody--man, woman, vegetable, or mineral--who tells me to keep my mouth shut. Alter what I've been through, I don't think so, pal," she says, arching a hennaed brow. "Wait until you read book two. I'll really throw in the guys. I didn't even begin to broach the subject."

A regular at Studio 54, Dickinson hung out with Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and John Belushi. Her book is rife with recognizable names from the worlds of modeling, photography, fashion, and Hollywood, and its plotline is something you've read many times before: An ugly duckling's hidden shame makes her fight all the harder to become a swan. Dickinson's "Polish mutt" look--full, "waterbed landing pad" lips, dark tresses--was the opposite of the fair-haired, thin-lipped all-American ideal (think Cheryl Tiegs) of the late 1970s. But Dickinson helped prove that exotic, too, could sell.

Dickinson claims she "kicked the damn door in," making it easier for nonblonds like Gia Carangi, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington to make it. That's not all she takes credit for. She says she coined the term "supermodel," for example, and that she's the one who gave Calvin Klein the idea to market underwear. Even at the height of her modeling career, however, when she was commanding top dollar and being photographed by the likes of Richard Avedon and Horst P. Horst, she says the memory of her father's brutality pushed her to abuse alcohol and drugs. Eventually she hit bottom.

"You can leave out my chronological age, dear. Or leave it in. I don't give a rat's ass. When I hit 45--ba da boom!--I couldn't stop crying," she says, in an imperious Norma Desmond drawl. If not for Tony Peck, Gregory's son, who helped her find a 12-step program near her Bel-Air home, Dickinson says she might not be here today, having Evian sprayed on her cheeks.

"Because of my father, I developed a crass, acerbic-witted, in-your-face attitude of defiance at an early age," she says, shutting her eyes as Kevin, the makeup man, applies a fine mist. "I couldn't focus in school. They thought it was ADD."

"It wasn't ADD," says Kevin. "It was DAD."

Dickinson laughs--a throaty crackling sound. "Write that!" she orders. "That's great. Without gay men, I am nothing." She can be a mensch. Dickinson looks fondly at Kevin. "He's taking my face from the unhealthy straggling insect chick to, like, a total diva."

"Do you know what I say when I go to Starbucks, just to give myself a little ego pump?" she says. "When they ask for name, I tell them, and they write it on the cup, and when my coffee's ready, they yell, out, `Diva Goddess!' and I say YES!'"

2004-02-23T20:54:00.000-08:00

Janice Dickinson on Dr. Phil

"I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world," says supermodel Janice Dickinson. "But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked. I masked it well with alcoholism. I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. One of the main reasons I had a lot of plastic surgery was because of the voice of my father. I've had my boobs and eyes done, my forehead lifted, and my stomach done. Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections. I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery! But plastic surgery hasn't stifled the voice from my father. Dr. Phil, how do I make this go away?" asks Janice.

"Was this [plastic surgery] a job tool or something that you did for you?" asks Dr. Phil.

"Both," answers Janice.

"I'm always interested in what the motive is and what the expectations are," says Dr. Phil. "Yours is layered. You sold your appearance. That was your livelihood. As someone who is so focused on appearance for their livelihood, do you think you confuse body image with self image?"

"Absolutely," says Janice. "I became addicted to the confusion."

"There are good reasons and bad reasons to have plastic surgery," explains Dr. Phil. "I'm always interested in whether people are trying to solve a psychological problem with a physical solution...Isn't there a point at which you will have to accept the aging process? You will have to accept gravity?" asks Dr. Phil.

"I'm caught up in this," says Janice. "To me, this has been a cycle."

"What do you consider a wrong reason to get it?" asks Dr. Phil.

"To fill up the void inside of me," says Janice.

"When the buzz wears off, and gravity sets in again, you are still the same person," explains Dr. Phil. "If you have a perception of yourself that you felt you needed to change [with plastic surgery], those perceptions are still there [after the surgery]. This is something you need to change from the inside out instead of the outside in. As long as [you hear] the voice [of your father], there is nothing you can do externally to shut it off. That is not an external switch. It's an internal switch."

2004-02-23T20:50:00.000-08:00

From: Billie (pusssykatt@aol.com)
Subject: Tabloid BITS AND PIECES 10/10
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2002-10-10 06:46:03 PST

STAR MAGAZINE....

--TALK about lip service! Supermodel Janice Dickinson says she was so wild
about JFK Jr. she made out with him outside a ladies' room – even though he
was dating future wife Carolyn Bessette! "I kissed him hard," boasts Dickinson,
45, who was one of the world's top models in the 1980s. "He was a fabulous
kisser." Dickinson told Steppin' Out magazine she met the Camelot heir on a
"blind date." He took her to New York's fabled Studio 54, where she says they
made out "on top of the bubblegum machine near the ladies' bathroom. He had a
girlfriend he didn't tell me about. Her name was Carolyn (Bessette)." JFK Jr.
wasn't her only beau. Dickinson says she bedded Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty,
Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Prince Albert, Liam Neeson and others. She
also claims a sexy lesbian romp with Kelly LeBrock, ex-wife of martial-arts
star Steven Seagal, and a naughty threesome with Rocky IV bad guy Dolph
Lundgren and James Bond villainess Grace Jones.

2004-02-23T20:49:00.000-08:00

From: claire (nowayjose@yahoo.com)
Subject: Liz Smith 12/11
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2003-12-11 18:13:40 PST

December 11, 2003 -- 'I ALSO have a porn tape floating around
out there somewhere. Doesn't every model?"

So says onetime supermodel/party girl deluxe, Janice Dickinson.
Miss Dickinson was musing about stray videos because she has approved Paris
Hilton to star in the film version of her best-selling memoir "No Lifeguard
on Duty."

Janice says, "Paris has been begging to play me since day one.
You know I was a socialite in another life." (In her real life of catwalks,
late nights and Sunset Boulevard, Janice lured such as Sly Stallone, Liam
Neeson and Jack Nicholson.) Paris would have to go brunette to portray
Janice, but "anything for her art" is the Hilton heiress' motto.

Anyway, Volume Two of Janice's life and loves hits bookshelves
in April with "Everything About Me Is Fake and I'm Perfect." In this book we
get her picnic in the Park with John Lennon and her make-out session with
John F. Kennedy Jr., among other treats.

And there's a third book on the way - a relationship guide to
dating with some handy tips on orgasms. "I am the 'Lord of the Rings' of
supermodels" says Janice of her hot trilogy. Well, whatever Janice was in
another life, you can bet she wasn't modest.

2004-02-23T20:48:00.000-08:00

From: X-Nico (X-Nico@XNico.com)
Subject: Re: An amusing look at Janice Dickinson (Sly Stallone's ex)
Newsgroups: alt.showbiz.gossip
Date: 1999/01/18

Dickinson, Janice
Born: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Raised: Hollywood, FL, USA
Ethnicity: Polish, Scot, Irish
Skin: Olive
Hair: raven black Agency/Representation: Keswick/Hamilton
Supermodel survivor of the late 70's. Has had covers on every
major fashion magazine. Used to make $30k a day. Now has two children,
Nathan(7) and Savannah (fathered by Slyvester Stallone during a 2
year affair) now married to real-estate tycoon Albert Gerston as
of Feb 14, 1995. Started "Models Anonymous", the unofficial support
group for [her words] "anguished beauties". Is experiencing a
comeback as more designers are returning to the models with
memorable personalities and very recognizable faces. J.D's lips were very
controversial when she first worked. Modeling for Versace and
recently appeared in the German edition of Playboy. Is a "Fashion

Reporter" for _American Journal_.

"I was huge," brags Dickinson. "I did covers in more countries
than you can count, I had the biggest lips and the exotic look
that broke the mold for models like Christeeee and Cindeeee and
Naomiiii," she sings. (excerpted from Marie Claire USA iss. #2)

Coral Amende put Dickinson in her list of "Gay or Bisexual Women" in her
book "Hollywood Confidential".

Two Dickinson quotes:

"Fuck Helmut Newton. Why should I take my clothes off for him? I took my
clothes off for his wife."

"Fag... fag hag." (on Mick Jagger/ Jerry Hall)

She also cites Dickinson as saying that Stallone regularly offered
breast augmentations as presents to women he was involved with, though
it wasn't mentioned whether Dickinson took him up on it. (Brigitte
obviously accepted.)

2004-02-23T20:47:00.000-08:00

From: Beeb E. Rebozo (BBRebozo@iwon.com)
Subject: Janice Dickinson
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Date: 2002-08-22 18:19:58 PST

Toward the end (around 9-9:30) of today's (Thursday's) show, Howard
had on 47-year-old ex-model Janice Dickinson, whose sole claim to fame
is that she has had sex with some famous men and has written a book
about those experiences. She was like the devil child of Vinnie
Favali ("you rock, Howard ... Howard, you're great ... Beth is so
beautiful") and Tara Reid ("I was the original supermodel ... I'm a
hottie ... I have 20-year-old men lined up around the block to go out
with me.")

But I warn you that she may be back on sometime, because:

1. She had some great stories about the celebrities she slept with
(Bill Cosby wasn't that great in bed, Jack Nicholson was, Warren
Beatty got out of bed after sex to stare at himself in a mirror)

2. Dickinson's publisher is -- guess who -- Judith Regan, Howard's
old publisher.

2004-02-23T20:45:00.000-08:00

From: Um Huh (umhuh2003@yahoo.com)
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities, alt.showbiz.gossip
Date: 2004-01-24 23:04:20 PST

Subject: Supermodel Janice Dickinson: "I'm The Rosa Parks" of Modeling

Weary critics are in for another shock from former supermodel Janice
Dickinson, now a judge on America's Next Top Model. Dickinson, who is
white, says the U.S. modeling agencies told her, "Your look is too
ethnic." She tells of going to Europe in the 1970s and crossing a
model picket line.

"Somebody had to do it. I was the Rosa Parks," she says, referring to
the black civil-rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat to a
white man.

One baffled critic asks whether she wants to revise that comment.

"I think I'm the Lord of the Rings of supermodels," she says. "You can
write that."

Reality is creating a new kind of star, and she isn't always pretty,
no matter how attractive her looks.

2004-02-23T20:44:00.000-08:00

From: Lili2 (lili2@aol.com)
Subject: Janice Dickinson not done kissing & telling
Newsgroups: alt.showbiz.gossip
Date: 2002-09-27 01:18:28 PST

NY POST...PAGE 6

OUTRAGEOUS original supermodel Janice Dickinson, who has blabbed about bedding
Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Prince Albert
and Liam Neeson, isn't done kissing and telling.

Janice, promoting her best-selling memoir "No Lifeguard on Duty," told Steppin'
Out magazine's Chaunce Hayden a few carnal kernels that didn't make it into the
book. She says she:

* Enjoyed a threesome with Grace Jones and "Rocky IV" musclehead Dolph Lundgren

* Had a sex romp with Kelly LeBrock, the model ex-wife of Steven Seagal. "She
was fabulous," Dickinson dishes. "We were all coked out of our minds!"

* Made out with John F. Kennedy Jr. "I kissed him hard. I had a blind date with
him once, but he had a girlfriend he didn't tell me about. Her name was Carolyn
[Bessette]."

Dickinson, who claims to have coined the term "supermodel" when she was one of
the world's top mannequins in the early 1980s, also blasted Angelina Jolie's
depiction of her friend Gia Carangi in the HBO movie "Gia."

"HBO paid me to come to New York and tell all the stories that I knew about
Gia," Dickinson says. "But I don't think they did a good job. Angelina didn't
nail it. Gia was the hottest broad going. She was a big ol' bull dyke who hated
men for whatever reason. When I first met her, she pulled out a switchblade."

Janice, whose modeling days are over, is working on her second book "Everything
Is Fake - I'm Perfect." She's also in talks to star in a reality TV show, and
has written a musical about Studio 54.

We hope her next tell-all is as entertaining as the delightfully trashy "No
Lifeguard On Duty," which is packed with dishy details like Stallone's habit of
saying "Bam Ham Slam" after sex.

Dickinson is still as wild as ever. During the Steppin' Out interview, she kept
asking writer Hayden if he wanted to "bang" her, put her foot between his legs
under the table, and licked his ear to demonstrate how easily she could turn
him on.

As they were leaving the Omni Berkshire hotel, Dickinson ran into Keith
Richards' wife, Patty Hansen, and cracked, "At least I never bleeped your
husband!"

Reflecting on how her two young children will react when they read her
titillating tell-all, Dickinson was philosophical.

"My son Nathan will read this book one day and probably be embarrassed, and I'm
sorry for that. But you know what? I'm not ashamed of my behavior. I
experienced life. I tasted it. I breathed it. I bleeped hard and played hard. I
lived life and I'm still living it." You go, girl!

2004-02-23T20:43:00.000-08:00

Source :NY Post Page Six

'I GOT BORED KISSING JFK JR.'

February 19, 2004 -- OUTRAGEOUS original supermodel Janice Dickinson - who blabbed about bedding Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Prince Albert and Liam Neeson in her first book, "No Lifeguard on Duty" - isn't done dishing on celebrities.

The jabber-jawed judge on TV's "America's Next Top Model" spills more beans in "Everything About Me is Fake and I'm Perfect" (ReganBooks), in which she recalls her encounters with another batch of bold-facers, including:

* Getting bored while locking lips with John F. Kennedy Jr.: "We made out for about five minutes while women who passed by struggled to contain their jealousy. 'You are so damn hot,' I told him when I finally came up for air - which wasn't an easy thing to do, believe me.

" 'Well, the so-called Sexiest Man Alive wanted to plant one on the sexiest lips alive,' he responded, then French-kissed me hard . . . As our tongues met and he held me in his tender embrace, I wondered, What ever happened to Jackie O's First Lady wardrobe?

"God forgive me, but that's what I was thinking while I was smooching the Prince of Camelot. I think he knew my attention was wandering elsewhere, and he finally broke the kiss. 'You know what, Janice?' he said. 'I have to go.' And he was gone"

* Putting up with Madonna's body odor when she used to boogie all night at Danceteria in the early '80s:

"Before the Material Girl got it together and started removing hair from her pits, she had the most vicious odor coming out from I don't even want to know where. Believe me, it was no holiday dancing next to Madonna way back then." Mee-yow!

* Stealing Donald Trump's stretch limo outside Studio 54: After Dickinson and another model drove off in an unattended limo and abandoned it a few blocks away, she learned that the car belonged to Trump.

A few weeks later, Dickinson ran into the tycoon at a Vera Wang fashion show and confessed that she had stolen his car. Dickinson writes that Trump replied: " 'Now you've stolen my heart,' he said winking."

* Hitting Charlie Sheen where it hurts: After the former bad boy showed up two hours late to a dinner date, only to ask Dickinson to do cocaine with him in his car, Dickinson recalls:

"I screwed up my face and landed a fake sneeze smack dab in the middle of that tray of coke. Charlie's drug of choice blew all over that rental car.

2004-02-23T20:42:00.000-08:00

Top model show plan
From The Eye
February 13, 2004

HIT US show America's Next Top Model has a cult following in Australia and fans can brace themselves for a local version.

Tyra Banks sets a fine example.

Foxtel's director of television, Brian Walsh, confirmed yesterday that Fox 8 had secured the rights to the US reality hit and would likely produce an Australian version.

"It's one of the hottest formats around at the moment and has all the right ingredients, reality TV with pure drama, week in week out, and unlike other reality formats, all the cast are stunning," he said.

America's Next Top Model is hosted by supermodel Tyra Banks and is full of wonderfully cringeworthy moments. A host of wannabe models are put through a series of tests each week, including photo shoots, catwalk shows and client meetings, and, at the end of each episode, the girl who isn't presented with a photo of herself must leave the building immediately.

Banks hilariously tells each remaining contestant she's still in the running to be America's "nexttopmodel" as if it's all one word.

And former supermodel Janice Dickinson is gloriously bitchy as an expert judge.

The first series in the US broke ratings records for cable network UPN, and the second series is doing the same.

The second series is running here, too.

Both series have included an interesting mix of models, from young innocents to tough cookies to religious types.

Let's hope Foxtel secures one of Australia's very own supermodel's to host the show – we think Elle Macpherson would be a perfect choice.

Herald Sun

2004-02-23T20:41:00.000-08:00

Janice Dickinson Chat Transcript from UPN

JANICE DICKINSON CHAT

Top Model Host: Hey everyone!! Thanks for joining us for our AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL chat. You all have a lot of great questions for Janice, so let's get begin! Thanks for being here today, Janice. Are you ready to take some questions?
Janice Dickinson: I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

CDOG: Hi Janice, what can we expect to see on the premiere tonight?
Janice Dickinson: Sexy women, cat fights, curves, lace, stiletto heels, Tyra Banks hair weaves, my breasts, fashion fashion fashion on me, Dolce and Gabanna, heat-seeking missile wit from Janice D. A lot of fumbling, some fondling. A lot of sex, drugs and Rock and Roll.

The general activities are trying to teach baby heifers how to properly saché down the runway. Trying to teach the girls to wake up on time--duh--to get to their first jobs on time (next time buy an alarm clock).

Weight gain, weight loss, irreverence, politeness. The Intrepid aircraft carrier is the location on the first episode for the women's first fashion show. The audience, ladies and gents, the U.S. Navy--how hot is that? Forget the contestants, let us talk about the Naval officers gawking at the wannabe models.

The locations take place in New York City photo studios, where Nigel, noted photographer, shoots these girls naked to the world, with the only adornment body paint and high heels and wigs and lashes, and a whole lot of attitude. The male model arm pieces clearly are naked. Further into this, Milan, Italy auditions, more attitude, more weight gain, more catfights, and the first major fashion show by the D-Squared brothers.

I can't remember which episode where the D-Squared brothers are the judges on the show, and they absolutely go off on the fashion industry, go off on the girls. I think they were having an acid flashback of what the industry does to girls. I think it's an important episode because it shows the intense pressure and scrutiny these poor kitty cats will remain under during the show, and hopefully the winner will get a lifetime of being placed inside a fish bowl.

Manda5: Janice, in comparison to last year, how does the cast fair this season?
Janice Dickinson: I was blown away at Tyra Banks' choices. I don't know how the hell, out all the thousands of contestants, that she narrows it down to 12 wannabe modelettes. Her array of contestants varies across all nationalities, which will make this show the most unique on television. We've got Afro-American, Asian, Spanish, Italian, Caucasian, and also some girl who lives out on Jupiter. This season's girls are fresher, angrier, hairier, sleeker.

If I had any annoyances to voice, this would be the one, and I'm not pessimistic. I was bothered that the girls seem to have me figured out, and that annoys me because no one can figure me out. When I asked my questions to the girls ... the girl I was plugging for was a girl who spoke from her heart, not the most commercial, had a terminal disease, and was fighting against all odds to become a model and for her life.

So to answer your question, there's just so much more heat.

Buddy: Janice, I know you didn't think Adrianne should have won, do you see her having a hot future in modeling?
Janice Dickinson: Stop right there with that mundane question. Perhaps there should have been two winners. My choice with Elyse stemmed from the fact that a girl must maintain weight. An agent has to be sure that a girl is not going to put on four to seven pounds a month due to what she eats, stress, family, death, divorce or moving.

A model absolutely must be able to squeeze her skinny little ass into a less than zero sized, hand-sewn, one of a kind piece of couture. End of subject.

HootersGirl: I think that Jenascia is the best looking one on the show, but she is also the shortest. Did you the judges make an exception for her?
Janice Dickinson: In my day as a supermodel, pant leg sizes were designed on girls 5'7" and over. Kate Moss blew the industry wide open and changed a trend, enabling shorter models to have a shot. For a short model to succeed in this industry it's a phenomenon. The last one who came along was the waif-like Kate Moss.

evilolive: If you could write one of the competition challenges, what would you like to see the girls do?
Janice Dickinson: I would like a photo lineup of major international photographers, starting with the fabulous 60s, 70 and 80s. I would like to see the models on a screen and see if the girls can identify how the photographer shoots a subject. I'd like to see if the model can identify how and who the fashion photographers are by the photograph on display.

MandoV: Were the girls better prepared for the competition this time around, or as clueless about modeling as many of the season one girls were?
Janice Dickinson: Two of them were wannabe pros already and acted like they knew even more than me. The rest hadn't the faintest idea of how to fasten a buckle on their shoes.

Chris: Why are you so harsh in your judgments of the models?
Janice Dickinson: Yo Chris, great question. I can answer honestly. I'm saving the girls a lot of time by my candid honesty. Wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone were like me?

Manda5: Does our favorite runway coach return this season? We love him!
Janice Dickinson: Dearest Manda, I'm so glad he's your favorite, because in my opinion he's teaching these girls how to walk like Clydesdales. But if you like him, keep on trucking. He's back with a vengeance.

DivineStasia: What's your view on plus-size models?
Janice Dickinson: Take the chicken out of your mouth at the Sunday picnic. Try jogging around the blanket. Just kidding. That's the nature of the beast. There's an amazing world out there of plus-size, and more power to you. It just doesn't work for this AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL judge.

I spent a lifetime of dieting, proper nutrition and exercise, to keep my ass off the back of my kneecaps.

justwhatever: Has being a model ever had a negative effect on your life?
Janice Dickinson: Are you kidding me? I ended up in drug rehabs, jail, lost three marriages. In fact you can read all about it in No Lifeguard on Duty, which is going to be a movie soon.

blueberrygirl: What do you think is the best age for girls to break into the modeling industry?
Janice Dickinson: It depends on the girl and what her assets are. But clearly, finish high school. 18-22, and 22 is pushing it.

blueberrygirl: What is the most important beauty product in your arsenal?
Janice Dickinson: Aloe vera gel. Also, Jafra cosmetics, face and night creams, I swear by them.

jlover: How many of the girls on the show do you honestly think could make it as a model in the real world?
Janice Dickinson: Dearest J-Lover, I love your name, what are you wearing? This season, 3, and that's pushing it

janice_u_rock: Did you have anyone early on in your career who gave you brutally honest opinion? How did you take it?
Janice Dickinson: Ha ha ha, Dearest Janice_U_Rock, I'm sure some model agent's facelift was slipping when she told me as a young girl when I walked into her office with a portfolio of three of the worst photographs you've ever seen, and sporting very ethnic looks, as opposed to blonde, blue-eyed Miss Apple Pie, all-American girl next door ...that I'd never make it in the industry, that it was clearly was against all odds that I would make it.

candyland: What happens to the contestants that get voted off?
Janice Dickinson: They have to go to the elephant model graveyard. Who knows? I'd like to see them continue to follow their dream.

Chris: Is Simon Cowell your role model?
Janice Dickinson: Absolutely not. I look better in a thong than Simon ever will. Simon can't even sing, and I'm still modeling.

Tristan: From your experience, how common is the model stereotype of "drugs, eating disorders and diva attitudes?"
Janice Dickinson: Still quite prevalent. As an editor for More magazine, I was backstage at all the NY City collections last February. I saw more drug abuse, more alcoholism and more girls running back and forth from the toilet than ever before. They should all read my books. I address these issues in the April release of Everything About Me's Fake…and I'm Perfect.

joeboo: Do you regret anything you said during the first season?
Janice Dickinson: Dear Joe-Boo, I regret nothing.

Buddy: What did you think about Robin's apparent disgust for gay people, yet she was happy to receive help from them on the show?
Janice Dickinson: Dear Buddy, Robin's mentality should be locked away on an island in the Pacific and never let off. This is 2004, and I'm here to announce, that Janice D., the world's first supermodel, is really a gay man in a supermodel's body. Gay men made me what I am today, Without their expert help, genius, expertise in design concept, hair, makeup, photography, Kraft service catering, food, the industry would never have been an industry at all.

tracy: I love all of Tyra's weaves--who does her hair?
Janice Dickinson: The natural museum of science and history.

DivineStasia: What is the biggest mistake aspiring models can make trying to break into this business?
Janice Dickinson: Not finishing school. Saying yes to alcohol and drugs, and not having a parent or guardian accompany them to studios, if under 18, or even over 18.

Belle: What are your views on cosmetic surgery? Should some of the bigger model types get lipo?
Janice Dickinson: F-yeah. Wire your jaws shut and stop eating.

cherry: Janice, Do you and Tyra get along
Janice Dickinson: I worship Tyra. Tyra is helping girls that normally wouldn't have a shot in the world at becoming anything. I adore that in her.

Tina: Have you ever worked with Armani since you called him Gianni?
Janice Dickinson: No. But I've worn his clothes and I adore his style.

traymay: Will you censor your statements this year or will you send the models home crying again?
Janice Dickinson: Dear Tramaey, it's not my problem that girls don't have a thick skin. I'm helping them apply layers. I'm hired to apply brutal, candid honesty and that's what I'm going to do.

joeboo: Of the current top models, whose success is a surprise to you?
Janice Dickinson: Robin.

evilolive: What is your favorite type of modeling? Print, runway, etc?
Janice Dickinson: All. Anything having to do with celluloid, I'm in.

Miss_Supermodel: What is the most important feature for a supermodel?
Janice Dickinson: Attitude.

DivineStasia: What was it like working with the late, great Gianni Versace?
Janice Dickinson: Divine, the most out-of-body, incredible, blessed union I've ever collaborated in. Being Versace's muse for eight years and allowing me to work Mr. Richard Avedon has given me the experience, knowledge and unique instinct of who I am today. I've never gotten over his death.

joeboo: In real life, don't most agencies sign girls based solely on looks and worry about teaching them the rest later?
Janice Dickinson: Yes.

Top Model Host: I am sorry to say that our hour with Janice is up. Janice, thanks so much for being here to chat with us today. Do you have any final comments for the Top Model fans?

Janice Dickinson: To all the Top Model fans in this world and in the next life: I would like to say, we must write letters in to the film studios and magazines and anyone concerned to bring back the era of the supermodel, for it is a dying breed. Return the supermodels to the covers of magazines where they used to be. I wish you all a rocking, slamming-fun for the season's viewing. Watch for me on Rock Me Baby on UPN. Happy Model viewing, and God bless.

2004-02-23T20:40:00.000-08:00

source: ETonline ( February 3, 2004 )

Also back for a second season is "Model"s version of SIMON COWELL -- JANICE DICKINSON -- who is every bit as caustic as the Brit wit.

"I'm not here to bull****," says the former supermodel of her harsh comments to the wannabes. "I'm here to state the truth. A lot of people say, 'Oh, she's the mean one. She's like that Simon character.' I have more experience than Simon. Simon never sang a note, but I fell off a lot of runways in my life, so I'm here to just state the truth."

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source: TV Guide

Top Model's Janice Strikes Again!
by Bruce Fretts

Janice Dickson

When we started thinking about judges, Janice Dickinson was one of the first people who popped into my head," says Tyra Banks, host and executive producer of UPN's America's Next Top Model (tomorrow at 9 pm/ET). "I'd never met her, but I'd heard the stories." One of the world's first supermodels (she claims to have invented the term), Dickinson lives up to her diva-may-care reputation with her merciless commentary on Top Model — and while talking with us. Meow!

TV Guide Online:What do you bring to the show?
Dickinson: Real-life experience, know-how, and a lot of frickin' fire. People want to get into brawling matches with me because I'm brutally honest. I feel I'm saving the girls a lot of time by telling them A) You're too fat, B) You're too old, C) You're too short. Tyra's way too nice. I'm not.

TVGO: Do you consider yourself the Simon Cowell of Top Model?
Dickinson: I look much better than Simon in a thong. Simon is truly just a judge. I am still a working supermodel. Simon's not even a singer. There's no comparison.

TVGO: Last season, why did you prefer skinny Elyse over plus-size Robin?
Dickinson: You have to be waiflike to be a model in today's world. When Robin was standing next to Elyse, I wanted to throw up — and that would've been good.

TVGO: Are the contestants more cutthroat than real-life models?
Dickinson: They aren't competitive enough. When I was starting out, girls like Gia [Carangi] walked around with switchblades in their back pockets.

TVGO: Has Top Model increased your recognizability?
Dickinson: Everywhere I go, I get recognized as, "Ain't that the model lady from the show?" Mostly urban ghetto chicks — they dig the show.

TVGO: Do you think more men will watch the show this season?
Dickinson: Are you kidding me? Last year, guys were just tuning in to see the girls' bikini [lines] get waxed. This year, the boys are going to want to see even more because the girls are much more sexy. Sexy, crazy, cool.

TVGO: How was the show received within the fashion industry?
Dickinson: The fashionistas can't get enough of this show. I'm not just blowing smoke up TV Guide's ass. The panel of judges is the full spectrum, from photographer to supermodel to editor to J. Alexander, that tacky queen who teaches the girls how to walk. We're all at the top of our game. People also will be tuning in to just to see what my breasts are going to be squished into in each episode.

TVGO: How realistically does the show portray the industry?
Dickinson: It's not artificial at all, because the industry is so artificial. The only thing that's artificial on the show are my breasts.

TVGO: Great. That covers everything.
Dickinson: Will you be running a picture of me, please? Thank you.

2004-02-23T20:37:00.000-08:00

48 hours: Addicted: Model Misbehavior

Oct. 18, 2002

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(CBS) Janice Dickinson was the original supermodel. In her prime in the mid-1970’s, her face appeared regularly on the covers of fashion magazines.

Janice, now 47, was on top of her profession, but over the top with her addictions. By her own account, she was out of control.

“I was the loudest and the wildest. I liked the money, the attention was great, the clothes, the limos, the planes,” she says. Bill Lagattuta reports.

She was hooked on the spotlight: “Just being so in demand. That’s what I got off on.”

“Janice was — is — vibrant, amazing, fantastic,” says hairdresser Harry King. “We were all over-the-top. It was the times. You had to be over the top, otherwise you wouldn’t be famous.”

Part of the problem, Dickinson says, was constantly being told that she was beautiful. “It was very destructive, because what happened to me was I began to believe it,” she says.

Then there were the men. “I’d need an accounting firm to remember,” she says, laughing, of all the men she has slept with. Among those on the list: Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Bruce Willis, and Liam Neeson.

She has also slept with Sylvester Stallone. At the time, the tabloids suggested that he was the father of her daughter. “He was one of the contenders. I had a lucky month that month,” she says. “It just so happens I am a famous supermodel and I slept with more than one man that month. And, oops, I got pregnant.”

“I have no shame,” she says. “Well, I have a little bit of shame. I didn’t sleep with one of the Beatles.”

But she did sleep with one of the Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger. “When I was being followed by Mick, I really didn’t fancy him,” she says. “He pursued me. He was Mick Jagger, you know? I had a good story for my grandchildren. I dated the lead singer of the Rolling Stones and he was great.”

She says she is proud of her relationships: “Hell, yeah. If I had to do it all over again, I would do it the same. Yes, I’m very proud.”

She has lived a life of extreme excess. “Drugs, alcohol, sex, shopping, plastic surgery. Anything I could do to escape, to numb myself.”

Janice says she was numbing herself to erase the effects of her childhood. Her mother was detached, she says, while her father sexually abused one of her sisters, and physically and verbally abused her. “Every time, I look at a photograph of my father, I get vivid memories. They always come back and I wish they’d stop,” she says, crying.

“He would say to me, ‘You’ll never amount to anything. You’re nothing but a two-bit punk. You should have been born a boy, you’re just—you’re less than zero.’ He said this on a daily basis. I developed severe low self esteem,” she says.

“It was awful, but as I was hearing them, I knew that I was better than what he was saying—it just fueled me to strive for perfection in becoming a model,” she says.

After three marriages, she is now a single mother to 8-year-old Savannah and 14-year-old Nathan.

These days, she still does some modeling, and she’s written a book about her glory days, filled with all the personal tales of drugs, rock and roll, and sex.

“I wrote the book to help young children. If they’re having a problem with their parents, like I did,” she says. “Please, tell someone and seek help at an early age, because it could prevent a life of excessive alcoholism and drug abuse, like what happened to me. Please don’t make the mistakes I made.”

A 12-step program got her past drugs and alcohol, and her children now anchor her life. But Janice still has an addictive drive to succeed, to always be in the limelight.

She says her father’s cruel words still drive her. “That’s probably stayed with me for the entire career, that’s what put me in the spotlight and kept me there. I did prove him wrong, didn’t I?”

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2004-02-23T20:34:00.000-08:00

source: vacationbookreview.com

Average review score: four and a half stars out of five

Janice is HEAT!
My only knowledge of Janice Dickinson was that she supposedly had Sly Stallone's child and there was some type scandal. I bought this book because I love beautiful women and biographies about the fast life in the 70s. This book satisfies on both counts. Not only is Janice beautiful but also virtually every other supermodel till the 90s is mentioned or pictured in the book.
Janice describes her destructive family life and through the typical desire and luck worms her way into the modeling business. Still only on the fringes of the business, she describes her European trips and how she is finally able to generate the heat necessary to grow into a supermodel. Of course, this leads to the failed marriages, self-destructive life style including sex and drugs, and an attitude to eventually hurt her career.

But this wild life makes an interesting read even though it is lightly written.

A second part of the book deals with life after modeling, her final two marriages, birth of her kids, her Stallone affair and the death of her father. It's almost sad at this point to see a person who had it all and how she had so many problems living happily. But that's the interesting part of the book seeing how she copes.

Some of us are built to go to work every day. And some, like Janice are built to live on the edge and reach for the stars. She may not be perfect but it was an interesting lifestyle although I suspect the Christian Coalition wouldn't agree. Read the book for fun.

Very Enlightening and Inspirational

Janice Dickinson is the first exotic supermodel who emerged from the 70s. Her look during that time was very controversial although her lineage was Polish, Irish and Scottish, she could have passed for Latin, Asian and other ethnicities, this propelled her to front international fashion magazine covers all over the world.
Her tale of abuse is very sad but she doesn't wallow in her own mistakes as an adult. She openly admits to her own drug problems and wild behavior, but it was because she never had a grounded childhood to prepare her for the fast life as a top model.

I've always wanted to know more about her but couldn't find enough on the Internet to really know the person. Now that I've read the book, I recommend it to all persons with an interest in fashion, to be inspired and just something entertaining to read.

Honest memoir by an early super model http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/detail/stars-5-0.gif

Janice Dickinson was one of the first models who not only broke the mold of the blonde, pale and WASP-y supermodel but turned it on upside down, in the tradition of Gia Carangi, Cindy Crawford and Beverly Johnson. Born with looks that turned heads and drove men to their knees, Dickinson was not as blessed when it came to her personal life and self-image. She seemed destined to self-destruct but somehow managed to recreate herself until time, drugs and her past caught up with her.
Does this sound like just another dreary tale of a beautiful woman who let fame go to her head. drugs muddle her brain and life pass her by? Think again. Pick this one up and I doubt you'll put it down again till you've read every sentence. FOr one thing, Dickinson has the courage to spill almost all about the ups and downs of her life (although I'd LOVE to read what she doesn't reveal) and that, in itself, is compelling. She's honest about many of her flaws and revealing about the lives of celebrities who cross her path, including Sylvester Stallone, Christie Brinkley, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and others. This makes for a juicy read. I'll leave it to you to decide what is true and what isn't. What I CAN say is that this book definitely isn't boring or dry. CAUTION: There are some nude photos in the photo spread so, depending on your values, you may not want to leave this one lying around the house.

2004-02-23T20:32:00.001-08:00

Move over Simon ... heeeere's Janice!

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Janice Dickinson and Tyra Banks

Douglas Perry
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jul. 18, 2003 05:00 PM

Supermodel Tyra Banks, the show's host and executive producer, was "supposed" to be the star of the UPN guilty pleasure "America's Next Top Model." Along, of course, with the phalanx of barely dressed young women vying for runway glory.

So how did a guffawing, 48-year-old "former" supermodel end up being the one everyone was talking about?

"Because I'm a heat-seeking missile," exclaims Janice Dickinson, who served as one of the judges on the show. Dickinson calls herself "Next Top Model' "s "opinionated voice of reason." Viewers, and the show's wannabe models, would agree with at least the first part of that description. (This voice of reason said of one contestant: "There's so many "teeth" in her mouth. Maybe she should have a few removed.")

"America's Next Top Model", which crowned a winner last week, garnered 4.4 million viewers for the finale - a rare success in a downer summer for reality shows. UPN has already said there will be a second "ANTM", with Dickinson on board. Could she be the next Simon Cowell?

Dickinson says that would only be natural for her. She's already been a celebrity model, a celebrity photographer and a celebrity author. "Now I'm a huge television celebrity," she says. "I'm aiming to become the white Oprah."

And just who is this not-particularly-Oprah-like TV phenomenon? Dickinson, for those who didn't have a subscription to "Vogue" or "Cosmo" in the '70s and '80s, was a supermodel back when the title required more than killer looks. The Florida native trawled fashion runways and fashionable clubs in a drug-and-booze-fueled frenzy with the likes of Christie Brinkley, Jerry Hall and Iman. She had sex in closets, saw her breakup with Sylvester Stallone strafed across the cover of "National Enquirer," took up photography and finally got herself into rehab. She detailed it all in the 2002 memoir "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel."

Is the book any good? Sure, if you like wild tales about sex, drugs and beautiful people - with a dash of sobered-up wisdom (and sex) thrown in at the end to tidy things up. But what makes Dickinson's tome stand out from all the other Hollywood memoirs is that she has a cheeky sense of humor about her self-absorption. Here's a snippet from her party-girl heyday:

""Calvin Klein showed up. I thought he'd be mad at me, given our recent blowup at his runway show, but he was very friendly. He kept telling me how hot I looked. "Fabulous. Yummy." And I "did" look hot. I was wearing a beautiful Sonya Rykiel cashmere dress, with pearls, and my hair was f---ing perfect. Just thinking about it now makes me hot. Excuse me for a moment . . .

"So where was I? Oh, right - in Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell's office, with Calvin and Iman. And Calvin invites us back to his place.' "'

Needless to say, that's about the tamest paragraph-and-a-half in the book (a few sentences later, Klein strips down to his underwear and knee socks - yes, you read that right, "knee" socks).

To her own surprise, Dickinson lived to tell about those party-hearty days - and the far more harrowing story of her father's sexual abuse of her. Now she's working on a "No Lifeguard" follow-up, which is due in April, while raising her son and daughter.

Which brings her back to that sobered-up wisdom. Dickinson says she is raising her children to recognize that "beauty is an afterthought, a footnote, to what's real, what's important in life. My kids really don't spend a lot of time in front of the mirror."

Of course, this new-found grounding in what's real doesn't mean it's easy to break old habits. In the "four" pages of acknowledgements in "No Lifeguard", she thanks "Dr. John Joseph for incredible Botox," two pages before she gives props to Alcoholics Anonymous and the man who "got me sober."

"What can I say?" Dickinson says with a laugh. "As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."

2004-02-23T20:32:00.000-08:00

"America's Next Top Model" Review

By Shawn McKenzie 05/21/2003

You could say that UPN’s “America’s Next Top Model” is the first show in what I am calling “the summer of reality.” I know…ever since “Survivor” debuted, every summer has been called that. The reason I think this summer will be distinctive is because the new fall season lineups are almost reality-show free (see the lineups here), so they want to get all their reality shows out of the way now. They figure people would rather watch relatively cheap-to-produce reality shows than reruns, and I would agree. This show is definitely a good way to kick the summer off.

Supermodel Tyra Banks created the show, which she also executive produces with Ken Mok. Twenty women tried out for one of the finalist slots in the competition. The women chosen will live together in a New York penthouse and will compete for a Grand Prize package featuring the opportunity to receive a Revlon modeling contract and to be managed by Wilhemina Models, in addition to a guaranteed appearance in Marie Claire magazine. Each week the women will be put through several tests, like complex catwalks, extreme physical fitness, fashion photo shoots, and publicity skills, all of which decides who makes the cut. Banks has many responsibilities on the show. In addition to executive producing the show, she also acts as a mentor to the women, and she is among the panel of judges who decide which women stay and which go. Billy Crystal’s Fernando would be out of place here; the women are judged on personality as well as beauty and modeling skills, so it is just as important to feel good as it is to look good. Other than Banks, the judges are made up of leading fashion industry experts that include former supermodel Janice Dickinson (who is the most opinionated of the judges), Marie Claire fashion editor Beau Quillian, and Baby Phat creative director Kimora Lee Simmons. In addition, a new special guest appears each week to judge in his or her area of expertise (in the first episode, the guest judge was Douglas Bizarro, the photographer who had shot their first photo session on a rooftop in the freezing cold.) The judges will examine each competitor and eliminate one potential each week.

Surprisingly, the show didn’t feature the audition process, or at least they didn’t show the tons of obvious losers. They did feature the audition process of the women who made it to the finals. I guess what I mean is that we didn’t see the auditions of the tons of girls fooling themselves into thinking that they are going to be a supermodel. They did reduce the finalists from twenty down to eight hopefuls in the first episode, but the ones left over were certainly potentials. It was bumped up to ten finalists, because, as Banks says, she likes “round numbers.” She conducted a nationwide search to find two more model potentials (the process of which we didn’t get to see.)

The ten finalists were certainly a diverse group. Ebony, 24, is a tall, bald, black lesbian, who doesn’t let any of that stop her. Elyse, 20, is a waifish, Winona Ryder-looking girl who claims to be a militant atheist. Shannon, 18, is the innocent Christian virgin who quotes the Bible all the time and says she has only gone as far as to kiss guys, since she is saving herself for marriage. Giselle, 18, and Katie, 21, are the two Latino girls in the house, so they feel that they share a common bond. Also sharing a common bond are the sleepy-looking Adrianne, 20, and Tessa, 19, because they are the only two in the house that smoke. Robin, 26, is the oldest and largest (in body weight) of the group, so she acts as sort of the Mother Hen and representation of plus-size models (though I wouldn’t call her fat…she is actually the healthiest looking one of the bunch.) Nicole, 22, impressed Bizarro with her ability to take directions. Kesse, 21, impressed Banks so much that she said that the girl could be her baby sister. Smoker Tessa was the one who was eliminated in the first episode, mainly because of her attitude and her awkward photo shoot. Ironically, she was one of the two finalists (along with Giselle) added to round out the competition.

When I heard about this show, I was dreading it. I thought it would either be a bad model version of “American Idol,” a physical beauty obsessed piece of crap like “Are You Hot?,” or just a boring competitive show like “All American Girl.” Fortunately, it is not like any of them. It isn’t exactly unique; various MTV shows have been doing this show’s style of reality for years, from “Road Rules” to last week’s “Surf Girls.” Actually, like “Surf Girls,” it is very specific in its interests. It is serious in the world of modeling, but unlike that MTV surf show, the competitors are a little more interesting. I couldn’t care less about modeling or style, but it was interesting to watch the personalities, especially of Elyse and Robin. It’s just like I don’t have any desire to be a singer, yet “American Idol” and “Nashville Star” drew me in because of the personalities of the competitors and the judges (the latter also because I am a huge country music fan.) I have two rules for a reality show to be considered good. Either they have to be an original concept or they have to have interesting people. It helps to have both. This show only has the latter, but that is okay. Some have neither.

“America’s Next Top Model” may not be the most original show, but it is a good way to kick off the 2003 “summer of reality.” It might also serve to help any potential girls wanting to be a model by showing them what they will have to go through. I am a little curious now…the show is called “America’s Next Top Model,” not “America’s Next Top Female Model.” Where is the next Tyson Beckford? (Yes…it’s sad that I know who he is…)

2004-02-23T20:30:00.000-08:00

Janice Dickinson and Paris Hilton on the catwalk (right); Nikki Hilton, Tara Reid and Rhea Durham in the audience—this was a night of spectacle at the famed Studio 54 nightclub

by Richard Spiegel with Jack Yan

Photographed by Richard Spiegel

JANICE DICKINSON might not be the most likely choice of model to open a show at Studio 54, since legend has it that she once ODed there in the late 1970s. But Lloyd Klein, the Parisian designer now more based out west in Los Angeles, has never been afraid of a little glamorous spectacle—and his spring–summer 2003 collection at the infamous nightclub certainly had glamour and spectacle. Dickinson might have made some headlines with a dress with a plunging neckline and her new occupation as an author (No Lifeguard on Duty recently launched), but she did share the stage with socialite–model Paris Hilton, who appeared and closed the show in a flowing, open wedding dress. And in the audience were none other than her sister, Nikki; between the pair of them they have not only appeared more in the press but their enfants terribles image has steadily disappeared. ‘It's the Hilton sisters’—and we look forward to that, rather than fear where they might next appear (refer features’ editor Phillip Johnson’s article from the Swarovski show last year). Their mates Tara Reid and Rhea Durham added to the A-list spectacle at the event. Fitting, after all: Pink had worn Lloyd Klein clothing in her videos.
There is a slight change from mere black, a Klein staple in some past collections, with white tossed in as contrast. Another welcome addition we noticed was the increase in the number of proper dresses, including some reaching floor length. Laced backs were another feature.
Klein has also continued his small menswear line that had a few looks in the show. Straightforward jackets and slacks for the boys as well as Lloyd Klein underwear. We found the underwear cute with pink swimming sperm logos but will it fly? Perhaps—the cheeky new lad humour might just make it across the Atlantic and Lloyd Klein could herald this.
Opinion was divided at this office about the collection: some felt Lloyd Klein's fall 2002 collection was stronger stylistically; others felt this was an evolution brought on by the economy (reliable colours) and not any slip in the designer's style. •

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Purchase No Lifeguard on Duty: the Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, by Janice Dickinson

Richard Spiegel is New York editor of Lucire. Jack Yan is founding publisher of Lucire.

2004-02-23T20:24:00.001-08:00

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel
Janice Dickinson - Regan Books - Hardcover

Books written by famous people often have an air of phoniness to them, as if to say, “Sure, this book is about me, but I don’t want to let you know too much about my life.” Say what you want about Janice Dickinson, she doesn’t hold back. The Florida native -- a model and photographer whose work on both sides of the camera has graced the covers of most of the major magazines in the world – has written a pretty candid book about her tumultuous life.

From her deeply troubled her relationship with her parents (her father beat her and sexually abused her older sister, as her mother stood by doing next to nothing to help her children) to her many problematic romantic relationships (she’s been married three times, and, it seems, dated half the heterosexual men in the fashion and entertainment industries) to her early struggle to succeed as a model and her battles with drugs and alcohol, Dickinson’s life has been packed with drama.

Dickinson left home in her teens to pursue a modeling career and found doors slammed in her face, because she was an exotic brunette at a time when all-American blondes were the rage. However, her persistence and drop-dead beauty won out and she went on to become a huge success, particularly overseas.

No Lifeguard on Duty charts her journey to the top, and the problems she encountered both along the way and after she attained success. It’s fairly typical celeb-bio stuff. The thing that makes it interesting is Dickinson’s complete candor. It’s no wonder so many of the people she encounters seem so enchanted with her. She has no fear of speaking her mind. Her reflections on the past are littered with profanity, pointed observations about herself and others and even humor.

Best of all, she doesn’t feel the need to depict herself as a martyr or saint. Dickinson knows she’s made some mistakes in her life and, while many of them are connected to the abuse she suffered as a child, she acknowledges that a lot of her pain comes from an inability to properly confront her past. Her ability to look back on her mistakes with fairly clear eyes lends her memoir a certain depth.

It’s not too deep, however. It still has many of the features of a typical Hollywood autobiography – name-dropping, detailed depictions of glorious decadent fun in Europe and domestically. But at least you can tell that Dickinson really is trying to examine her life and change it for the better. And that is truly refreshing.

© 2002 by Amanda Cuda for Curled Up With a Good Book

2004-02-23T20:24:00.000-08:00

Saga of the world's first supermodel
By George Epaminondas
October 1 2002
The Sun-Herald

Janice Dickinson was the world's first supermodel, or so she says. She also bedded Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone, insulted Giorgio Armani and tried to drown a traumatic past.

Her descent on the world of modelling in the 1970s was like a scene from Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman: a female colossus with skyscraper limbs, unquenchable desires and hell-raising spirit. Janice Dickinson was predisposed to dancing on tables, to seducing well-known men, to imbibing a blizzard of cocaine and guzzling a river of champagne. At a fashion show for Valentino, she famously stepped off the runway into the lap of a horrified Sophia Loren. She called Giorgio Armani by the name of his arch rival, Gianni Versace. She went skinny dipping in a public fountain in Rome, causing fights to break out and the police to arrive. Dickinson was hell on heels.

Before she careened headlong into the New York glamour scene, the era of apple-pie beauties such as Cheryl Tiegs, Lauren Hutton and Christie Brinkley, models were a white-bread bunch. At first Dickinson, with her dark, exotic looks, was considered too unorthodox, too edgy to join their virtuous ranks - she was even told so by modelling matriarch Eileen Ford. Still, nothing could stop the reincarnated Amazon.

"I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way," she writes in her titillating new book, No Lifeguard On Duty: The Accidental Life Of The World's First Supermodel, a real-life Jackie Collins saga.

Describing Dickinson's pill-popping, bed-hopping ways, the autobiography is every bit the page turner, and is already strutting the bestseller lists in the US. As a model she was fearless; there was nothing she wouldn't do for a picture. Photographer Peter Beard once had her scale a bask of sleepy crocodiles in her G-string. As a writer, Dickinson is equally dauntless. Her visits to rehab, her two abortions, her three marriages and the legacy of her abusive father are all here in lurid detail. The reader learns that she lost her virginity on LSD. That her first husband was a heroin addict. And that she once had a breakdown in a closet, only to be rescued by a concerned friend.

Now 47 and the mother of two kids, Nathan, 15, and Savannah, 8, Dickinson is a photographer and occasional mannequin based in Los Angeles. You might presume, given all the years that have flown by, that the original dragon lady of modelling might have mellowed a bit, but you would be wrong. When she calls on her mobile phone, riding in a car with her new boyfriend, whom she refuses to identify, she is as riotous and as righteous as ever. "Is that George of the Jungle?" she asks teasingly. Words leave her lips at a spitball pace, and many of her observations are peppered with the braggadocios of the woman who allegedly coined the term supermodel.

Asked, for instance, what she makes of the current constellation of models orbiting fashion, Dickinson admits she feels only pity. "I really do feel sorry for them. Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted. In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything. Today the new girls can't even hawk their way out of a paper bag, although these bitches are getting top dollar. They're not able to reap the harvest of their notoriety." Point out that Brazilian bombshell Gisele Bundchen seems to be doing well for herself, Dickinson agrees: "She's the reigning ruler. Could play me in the movie. She could be mini me. She could be the one."

The dark undercurrent in the book, and in her life up until recently, is Dickinson's torrid relationship with her late father. Growing up in sun-dappled Florida, the second of three daughters, Dickinson was subjected to a tirade of physical and emotional abuse, hence the book's title. Though she resisted her father's incestuous advances, Alexis, the eldest, was not as fortunate. "He was rageaholic, he was a paedophile, he was a very dark creature," says Dickinson, thinking back. Her mother, a nurse with a penchant for prescription drugs, was oblivious to it all. Burnt into Dickinson's psyche was her father's constant curse: "You'll never amount to nothing!"

So even when her career was sizzling with the attentions of the leading magazines, photographers and advertisers of the day, Dickinson was plagued by insecurities instilled by the "rat bastard", as she calls him.

"No amount of Vogue covers, Harry Winston diamonds, couture, mansions ... nothing filled that hole," she says. She tried filling it with other things. Cocaine for one. And a rapid succession of men, from whom she craved unconditional love, validation and approval - everything her father had never given her. She veered dangerously close to self-destruction, and she lost many friends along the way, including the model and addict Gia Carangi.

Along with all the Sturm und Drang unveiled in the bio is Dickinson's wicked humour. Models get a bad rap for being dumb, she writes, but "most of us can actually walk and talk and snort coke at the same time". At a Calvin Klein show in Asia, she reached for what she assumed was a vitamin C capsule - but it was a Quaalude and she promptly collapsed. To this day, Klein has never forgiven her. Even more tell-all are her sexual exploits. After shooting with the macho French photographer Mike Reinhardt, a man she would later move in with, Dickinson writes, "I wanted him so bad my Little Flower barked." She is also prone to addressing people directly in the book, apologising to Anjelica Huston for sleeping with her partner at the time, Jack Nicholson.

No Lifeguard On Duty reads like a memoir of all the men the author has enjoyed carnally. As a lover, Nicholson was passable. "You were OK, Jack," she writes. As she was leaving his hotel room, Nicholson offered this titbit of advice: "Don't tell anyone you've got star cum inside you." Warren Beatty was better at pushing her buttons, but he was a narcissist given to staring at his reflection for hours on end. Not surprisingly Dickinson also connected with the notorious modeliser Mick Jagger. "Our mouths were like two oversized electrical hook-ups, made for each other." And this of actor Liam Neeson: "He peeled off his pants and an Evian bottle popped out."

Dickinson's most meaningful celebrity dalliance was with Sylvester Stallone. For a while it seemed as if the mighty midget ("I couldn't believe how short he was," she quips in print) had fathered her daughter, but an extended paternity suit, played out in the tabloids, proved otherwise.

Like Nicholson, Stallone employed a curious post-coital refrain: "Bam ham slam". "Actually, it should have been 'Bam slam ham'; that was a misprint," says Dickinson, and she still sounds aggrieved by it. "How the hell would you feel after Sly Stallone gets done mounting you and all you get from the experience is 'Bam slam ham'? I was astounded. That's all you have to say to the goddess?" Do they still talk? "No," she sputters, "he's a married man."

The French have a term for an unconventionally good-looking woman: jolie laide. Dickinson, you could say, was jolie laid, the sex-you-up supermodel who frequently appeared in magazines "wading through a piranha-infested swamp in the African bush, looking like I'd just been laid - by an entire village". Early on, the sexy, salacious work she did in Paris must have appeared threatening to the American editors. But eventually they all wanted a piece of her. "I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head," she writes.

Dickinson helped to hike up model fees, demanding $20,000 ($A36,000) for an advertising job when the going rate was $5,000, switching agencies in the process.

Years later, Linda Evangelista would be widely quoted saying she didn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. "Puhleeeze. I couldn't believe it," fumes Dickinson. "She must have had a coke hangover that morning. I thought that was the most ridiculous, selfish..." she stops herself. "Well, we all make mistakes. I enjoy getting out of bed in the morning. I enjoy posing. [Esteemed British photographer] Norman Parkinson said, 'Janice, jump' and I would say, 'How high?' There's a difference: I was grateful.

I really wanted to make it and I broke open the market and the mould for these exotic types like Linda. They wouldn't have got arrested if I hadn't come along."

Dickinson is adept at burnishing her own legacy. But her claims of coining the expression, as well as inventing the profession, of supermodel are unfounded. Says Michael Gross, the author of Model: The Ugly Business Of Beautiful Women, "With all due respect to the ever-amusing Miss Dickinson, Anita Colby, Dorian Leigh, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy were all supermodels before Janice, even if the superlative hadn't yet become popular." In his book, Gross traces the etymology of the term to a small-time model agent, Clyde Matthew Dessner, in 1948 - seven years before Dickinson was born. "But I like Janice," adds Gross. "The first time I saw her was in the men's room of an Italian restaurant with her hand down some guy's pants."

Even off-camera she burned, swinging past the velvet rope at Studio 54, hanging out with Andy Warhol, Keith Richards and John Belushi. Decades before Naomi Campbell walloped her personal assistant, before Kate Moss stood by a hotel-trashing Johnny Depp, Dickinson was the original bad girl of modelling. Of all her crazy stunts, perhaps the nuttiest was the time she hightailed it to Rome, rented a nun's habit and had sex in a church confessional with a man she barely knew. What prompted that? "Running from the devil. Unresolved child conflicts once again. Excessive behaviour and sexual perversion was part of that. I was young and wild and woolly and I wasn't married. So I had sex in a confessional - big f***ing deal. Would I do it again? I might."

The scene where her father dies is gut-wrenching and must have been a challenge to write. Dickinson is standing next to the trolley in the hospital screaming, "Die - I hate you!"

"I wish it could have been different," she says, sounding dispirited. "Just last Sunday, in the middle of this gruelling book tour, I was able to relax in a jacuzzi, and I saw a father embracing two of his young children. They were bouncing on his knee, they were safe, they were happy, and a feeling came up from the abyss of my soul which means this stuff still hurts. I didn't have that feeling of safety and innocence as a child. Thank God I was sitting in a jacuzzi and no-one saw me sobbing."

Writing the book was a cathartic experience, and Dickinson is already at work on a sequel called Everything About Me Is Fake: I'm Perfect. "It had taken me 40 years to figure out that I'd spent my entire life seeing myself as my father had seen me," she writes in an epiphanic moment.

She's been sober for two years and says she still attends AA meetings. She certainly hasn't lost any of her sassiness, though. Being Janice, before hanging up and speeding off into the LA sunset, she offers up her own version of bam slam ham. The voice comes down the phone line insistent and slightly demented: "I hope you nail this interview - and if you don't I'll cut your cock off."

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Fun on the Sly!

Stallone scores a KO for his bed work with Dickinson

- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Amy Reiter Salon Magazine

Feb. 13, 2002 | Guess they don't call Sylvester Stallone "Rocky" for nothin'.

In her upcoming autobiography, "Car Wreck Woman: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel," excerpted on Glamour.com, model and serial celebrity-dater Janice Dickinson says that of all the men she's slept with -- John Kennedy Jr., John Cusack, Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson included -- sassy Sly was able to go the most rounds in the sack.

"Stallone is the most incredible lover I've ever known," Dickinson gushes. "Until you've been thrown in bed and Rambo-ed all night, you cannot understand the meaning of great sex. I had bells going off in my head."

So considerate a lover was the heavy-lidded heavyweight, he offered to treat Dickinson to a new set of breast implants.

But the model refused the gesture.

"I already had my own," she said.

Translation: Just send a check, Sly.

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source: Vogue.com

DICKINSON'S STORY

SIXTIES supermodel Janice Dickinson claims that Jerry Hall once threatened her with a gun for embarking on an affair with Mick Jagger. Details of the shocking episode emerge in her forthcoming no-holds-barred autobiography, which is bound to rock the fashion world. "My story is a cautionary tale about incest, drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll, Studio 54 and fashion, fashion, fashion," she tells the New York Post. "Along the way I dated a few Academy Award winners. But there is substance and ingredient there." Dickinson's book, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel gives detailed accounts (including marks out of ten) of her affairs with numerous high-profile men, including Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. It is a book that is likely to shock, entertain, and no doubt upset a great many of the celebrity friends she has left. But the 47-year-old poser doesn't care. "Are the men I wrote about going to be upset? So what?" she asks. "They were fair game. They were single. I was the hottest girl at the moment. I wrote the book longhand. The words just flew. It wasn't hard at all. Every page has punch." (August 23 2002, AM)

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The September 2, 2002 issue of US Weekly contains an article about Janice Dickinson by Anna David. The quote and pic of Janice and Sly accompanies the article.

- Craig Zablo
[August 18, 2002]

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Janice Dickinson
Biographical Information

Janice Dickinson, The World's First Supermodel
Photo from: Janice Dickinson Photo Gallery
Conde Nast Inc.
Birthday: February 28, 1955
Birth Place: Hollywood, Florida USA

Biography:

Say what you like about Janice Dickinson because she doesn't care. From Paris to New York to Milan Dickinson broke down barriers in the fashion industry all while maintaining her image as a Studio 54 wild child. In the late 1970's Dickinson's career hit its peak with Dickinson recieving campaigns with Revlon, Calvin Klein and countless magazine covers. However, due to substance abuse, Dickinson's career began to wane in the mid 1980's leading her to reinvent herself as a successful photographer based in Los Angeles. In 2003 Dickinson appeared on the hit UPN television series 'America's Next Top Model' and became an instant sensation once again. Currently single she is the mother of a son, Nathan and a daughter, Savannah. She resides in Bel-Air, California.

source: TVTOME

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Saturday, September 28, 2002

A moment with ... Janice Dickinson, model/photographer/author

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

Days after graduating from high school in Hollywood, Fla., Janice Dickinson headed for New York seeking a modeling career. She'd won a national competition, "Miss High Fashion Model," and thought New York was waiting for her. Wrong! Eileen Ford, head of the legendary modeling agency, declared Dickinson, who is Polish, "Much too ethnic. You'll never work."

Photos from her book "No Lifeguard on Duty" show Dickinson during her modeling career.
In the 1970s, blue-eyed blondes ruled runways, magazine covers and the ads inside. But another agency owner, Wilhelmina, thought she had an interesting look and signed her on. French and Italian designers and photographers adored her. She returned to New York as one of the first supermodels, earning $2,000 per day when the going rate was about $75.

Drugs, alcohol and a new crop of models pushed her from the limelight. At 33 she moved to L.A. to "reinvent myself." At 40 she hit bottom. Today, at 47, she's clean, sober, a PTA member. And she's written a book, "No Lifeguard on Duty" that tells all -- from childhood abuse to sexual encounters with everyone from Mick Jagger to Sylvester Stallone.

On modeling today: "It's an ugly, dark industry. Last week in New York (working as a guest editor for More magazine) there were still empty Champagne bottles backstage at shows. Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey. Savvy (her daughter) wants to be a veterinarian and that's fine with me."

On self-help books: "Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. Or, use 'No Lifeguard on Duty' as a No. 1 self-help book. I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make."

On surviving three marriages: "Because I'm an alcoholic and drug addict, because I spent my life running and drowning, I wish I knew (then) what I know now, thanks to my recovery program. I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age. I got moral. My children are raised morally."

On her mantra ("Fake it till you make it"): "It came from the 12-step program. It means 'act as if': Act like a courteous person. Act as if you're a human being. I made mistakes by being a narcissistic bitch."

On her best pickup line: "I can wrap my legs around my neck. (She demonstrates.) Can you? It worked with Stallone."

-- Susan Phinney

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Subject: A model who thinks she's *too* smart
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2003-06-04 06:48:40 PST

NY POST / By DON KAPLAN
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HERE'S a new reality show twist: a brainy model-wannabe is begging to be thrown
off "America's Next Top Model" because the other contestants are so "dumb."
Elyse Sewell - a raven-haired, clinical researcher from Texas with degrees in
Spanish and biology - may be the most fascinating character on reality TV right
now.

She startled viewers last week when she verbally sliced up her fellow
contestants on the UPN show - calling them "vapid. . . wasteful . . and dumb."

Then she announced she really had no business being on the series - a sort-of
"American Idol" for models - in the first place.

Sewell wants to be a doctor and said she'll be in medical school by August if
the whole supermodel thing doesn't work out.

The best part is it appears now that she has a good chance to win the
grand-prize - including a big-bucks deal with Revlon and a contract with
Wilhelmina Models.

"She absolutely has what it takes. Her attitude rocks," says Janice Dickinson,
one of the show's judges who is credited with being the first supermodel.
Sewell - who is sequestered by the show until the end of the show (or is thrown
off) and is not permitted to speak to reporters - got everyone's attention last
week with a blistering tirade delivered out of earshot of the judges and other
contestants.

She called one contestant: "worthless . . . wasteful, bitchy, stupid. Your
parents must be ashamed of you." Then added: "I don't have the will to walk on
the catwalk. It's so irrelevant. Eliminate me. Do it!"

But on last night's episode Sewell seemed to have found a second wind. She won
a makeup contest and night out to meet fashonistas who could boost her
potential career as a top model.

On the show, 10 women move into a New York loft and are schooled in the ways of
modeling. One gets axed each week by a panel of judges that includes show's
executive producer, supermodel Tyra Banks.

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Subject: Tabloid BITS AND PIECES 10/10
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2002-10-10 06:46:03 PST

STAR MAGAZINE....--

TALK about lip service! Supermodel Janice Dickinson says she was so wild
about JFK Jr. she made out with him outside a ladies' room – even though he
was dating future wife Carolyn Bessette! "I kissed him hard," boasts Dickinson,
45, who was one of the world's top models in the 1980s. "He was a fabulous
kisser." Dickinson told Steppin' Out magazine she met the Camelot heir on a
"blind date." He took her to New York's fabled Studio 54, where she says they
made out "on top of the bubblegum machine near the ladies' bathroom. He had a
girlfriend he didn't tell me about. Her name was Carolyn (Bessette)." JFK Jr.
wasn't her only beau. Dickinson says she bedded Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty,
Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Prince Albert, Liam Neeson and others. She
also claims a sexy lesbian romp with Kelly LeBrock, ex-wife of martial-arts
star Steven Seagal, and a naughty threesome with Rocky IV bad guy Dolph
Lundgren and James Bond villainess Grace Jones.

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"Until you've been thrown in bed and Rambo-ed all night, you cannot
understand the meaning of great sex. I had bells going off in my head."

- Janice Dickinson

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Subject: Models of bad behavior
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 1998/09/29

source: NATIONAL ENQUIRER

JANICE: A Sexual Hellcat

Hell-raiser Janice Dickinson is living proof that beauty is only skin deep!
JANICE duped Sly into thinking he was father of her baby. The brunette model
plopped herself in President Ronald Reagan's lap, called JFK Jr. a bore and
dubbed Jack Nicholson her "most amazing lover."

But her baddest conquest came when she tricked Sly Stallone into thinking that
her baby was Stallone's daughter!

"In the week I conceived, I had made love with five different men,"
bed-hopping Janice later confessed.

Janice's pregnancy ruse lured Sly away from younger model Jennifer Flavin. An
elated Sly paid Janice's medical bills and gave her $19,000 a month in spending
money.

Things got "Rocky" when he set eyes on little Savannah.

"She didn't have my coloring, and it caused an alarm to go off in my mind," Sly
told The ENQUIRER.

When friends hinted he'd been duped, Sly asked that the baby undergo DNA tests.
Janice scoffed the tests were faulty, but when three of them came back negative
Sly knew he wasn't the tot's dad.

"I felt Janice had made me a fool in front of the world!" he fumed.

Sly and Jennifer made up, married and started a family. Janice married -- and
divorced -- Hollywood nightclub owner Albert Gersten.

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From: deRoach (deroach@comcast.net)
Subject: Janice Dickinson leads the life Jackie Collins dreams about!
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2002-08-25 23:15:25 PST

In her new tell-all book "No Lifeguard On Duty" Janice dishes the dirt on
her long list of Hollywood lovers.

http://www.nolifeguardonduty.com

WARREN BEATTY?

JANICE: Wow! Warren -- consummate gentleman. The smartest man I know next to
my son. He was editing 'Reds' when I met him. He taught me to edit film, and
how to get the best angles of your face. He's a really great family man. I
see him all the time in the Glen. When I told him I was writing the book, he
said, "Be intelligent, be smart, be funny, be who you are. Write from the
heart." Which is what I tried to nail.

JACK NICHOLSON?

JANICE: He had just come off winning the Academy Award for 'One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest.' What was I supposed to do, not go out to dinner with
him? I got a little looped; he was great. You're going to have to go out and
get the book to read about what happens the next morning.

BRUCE WILLIS?

JANICE: We called him Bruno in the day. I met Bruno at 5 a.m. in a club. I
didn't know he was "Bruce Willis." He was just Bruno. He is one person about
whom I made the biggest mental mistake of my life. When we started dating,
he only got one job in eight months. He was on a soap opera as a painter. I
remember him studying one line for three days, "What color is the paint
going to be?" Now when I look back in retrospect, Bruce Willis is the
hottest actor in the world. In those days I thought, "He's never even going
to get a Colgate commercial." What an idiot I was for having that mentality.
He is the most wonderful, wonderful guy.

MICK JAGGER?

JANICE: You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. I got the lips to drive
a man insane. I am a die-hard ROLLING STONES fan.

MARK: Tell me about the first time you guys kissed.

JANICE: Oh, it was Greek gods in the skies exploding. There was lightning
and thunder. He had a girlfriend back in London, JERRY HALL, a girl that I'd
worked with. He said that he wasn't with Jerry. I took everybody I met at
face value. I didn't necessarily bed them all, but I dated them and I wrote
about it.

SYLVESTER STALLONE?

JANICE: He's a very happily married man, but what can I say about my past
with Sly? He's probably the funniest man on the entire planet. I'm sorry
that his comedies didn't work out, but he's really funny.

For more on the life and times of Janice Dickinson, check out
http://www.nolifeguardonduty.com

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Former Fashion Model Janice Dickinson's Autobiography: No Lifeguard on Duty
By Liz Smith
New York Post
August 23, 2002

'MY STORY is a cautionary tale about incest, drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll,
Studio 54 and fashion, fashion, fashion. Along the way I dated a few Academy
Award winners. But there is substance and ingredient there."

So says formerly high-living supermodel Janice Dickinson, describing - and
somewhat tamely, too - her new sizzling autobiography.

This is a book that might be called "a tell-all - and then some!" The memoir
is titled "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First
Supermodel."

There may be some disagreement that Janice was the world's first supermodel,
but no other catwalker has had such a yeasty life, nor been willing to speak
of it so jovially and graphically.

Janice, now a magnificently well-preserved 47, speaks with the candor of
Cher, the bite of Joan Rivers and the sexual bonhomie of Mae West. Her
take-no-prisoners style has won - and lost - many a celeb pal over the
years. But the girl can't help it.

"Are the men I wrote about going to be upset. So what? They were fair game.
They were single. I was the hottest girl at the moment. I wrote the book
longhand. The words just flew. It wasn't hard at all. Every page has punch."

DICKINSON'S LOVERS throughout her 1970s-'80's heyday read like a Who's Who
of Hollywood studs. Here are some brief but to-the-point thumbnail sketches
of a few:

Warren Beatty: "The most fabulous iconic legend who ever lived. I mean, I
thought I was Bonnie to his Clyde."

Bruce Willis: "He loves the book and he loved making the cut. He's secure
with himself." (Janice also tells of taking Bruce to an emergency room in
NYC - these are his pre-"Moonlighting" years - after some nut attacked him
and split his lip!)

Mick Jagger: She met the then-not-quite-so-mossy Rolling Stone at a dance
club on Sunset Boulevard - "our lips locked together . . . and it was
electric. And both our kissers are real, too." (I guess she means
collagen-wise.)

Jack Nicholson: "What can I say about the Joker. The Joker was W-iii-ild!"

Liam Neeson: "I did get kind of graphic about his anatomy. Everybody's
talking about it!"

Sly Stallone: "It was a pain/pleasure relationship. There's plenty I didn't
write about. That's probably why he'll be upset. It was volatile. He is
funny. He is the funniest actor ever! Too bad his comedy didn't work out.
But he is a funny person."

(He wasn't laughing during all that unpleasantness over the paternity of one
of her children - DNA finally proved he was not the father. But that's all
water under the bridge. Sly's sense of humor is bound come to the fore when
he gets to his chapter.)

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was never her type. Michael Douglas? Maybe, if he
wasn't married. She could go on, but she wants you to buy the book, natch.

Janice, who once partied hard, is now clean, sober and devoted to her two
children, Nathan and Savannah. Motherly she is, but no somber matron.

She still has an eye for men. She'd love to meet George Clooney. She danced
with young hottie Justin Timberlake recently, and she dines occasionally
with old friend Bruce Willis.

But she's given up champagne for Perrier, and says, "Getting sober saved my
life. I wish this for anyone who has unresolved conflicts and child abuse
issues . . . I'm going to start a foundation for sexually abused children
and I do a lot of gay activist work today, a lot of pediatric AIDS work."

SUMMING HERSELF up - yesterday, today and tomorrow - Janice says, "My life
dictated that I develop a hard shell, an in-your-face, acerbic style. I
lashed out at people before they could 'get' me. I'm no longer that woman. I
meditate, do yoga and exercise. I have great friends."

Pausing to soak in her new serenity, Janice grins and laughs, "And yes, if I
had to do it all over again I would live exactly the same way."

She has survived to tell her tale. A movie version of this book is in the
works, there is talk of a cosmetics contract with MAC and maybe - though the
genre grows tired - her own reality show. Of course, Janice is a pistol, and
her "reality" would probably be a great deal of fun!

P.S. Janice ran into Mike Tyson the other night at L.A.'s Lounge. He told
her he's buying 100 copies of her book. Her reaction? "I wanted to bite him.
I wanted to bite him!"

For better or worse, Janice confined herself to a demure thank you.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm

Chapter One: Meet the Parents

My father was a tall, slim, handsome man with a thick head of silver hair,
buzzed flat, and gunmetal gray eyes. People liked Ray. He had an easy smile.
A pleasant laugh. He was a good storyteller, a good listener, popular with
the neighbors.

But I didn't often see that easy smile. Or hear that pleasant laugh. I saw,
instead, the way his eyes changed color when he got angry, the whites
glowing red. Or the way he balled up his big, freckled fists when he came
after me, like a bull in heat. I hated him. I hated his eyes; his hair; that
acrid breath; the wife-beater, Fruit of the Loom T-shirts. I hated him with
every fiber of my being.

I hated my mother, too; hated her because she was numbed into oblivion with
the pills she'd been prescribed for an old back injury. She would come home
at the end of the day, floating, and she stayed aloft with the help of those
lovely pills. She would glide through the house on a cushion of air, in slow
motion, unaware, unseeing, her voice soft, her mind elsewhere, always
smiling this benign Hare Krishna smile - like she was At One With God or
something; which she was, I guess, at least chemically.

Those were my parents. So I ask you - my two sisters and I - what f------
chance did we have?

They met, appropriately enough, in a bar. My mother, Jennie Marie
Pietrzykoski, was the eldest of nine children. Her Polish-born father owned
a little pub in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, right next to the railroad tracks,
and I guess she felt comfortable around booze. She went to nursing school in
Manhattan, and at night she'd hit the elegant nightclubs with her fellow
nurses.

One night, at a Midtown watering hole, some ass---- came by to harass Mom
and her fellow nurses. Ray Dickinson intervened, decking the guy and tossing
him into the street. My mother and her friends were so grateful they asked
him to join them. He looked good in his Navy uniform. He was a radioman. Mom
couldn't stop staring at those gray eyes. Three days later they went down to
City Hall and got married.

The following week they ran into the "ass----" from the bar. Turns out he
was a friend of Ray's; they'd set the whole thing up to make my father look
like a regular hero. My mother thought it was funny. I would have had the
marriage annulled.

They got an apartment in Brooklyn, and I guess those first few months were
pretty hot. My mother was a looker. She wore stylish pumps and blood-red
lipstick - not particularly original, true, but it worked. She loved the
camera and the camera loved her back.

Alexis came along a year later. She didn't love the camera. There's a
picture of her I'll never forget: She's about five years old and sitting
stiffly on my father's lap, and she has a look in her eyes that's a
caught-on-film cry for help. He was already into her. I guess five was old
enough. I don't know where that picture is today, but I've got it imbedded
in my brain. I wish I could erase it.

I came along five years later. My mother was working as a nurse in
Manhattan, already dabbling with prescription drugs, and my father was
grumbling about his nowhere career with the Navy.

Now there was more bad news: another daughter. Ray was devastated. He'd been
hoping for a boy and made no secret about it. I swear to God, I remember him
hating me when I was barely a few weeks old. I know that seems
unbelievable - I was way too young to be forming memories - but his hatred
was the air I breathed from birth.

When I was just eighteen months old, in 1957, the family moved from Brooklyn
to Florida. "Ray dear" - as my mother called him - had been tossed out of
the Navy for assaulting an officer. He was going to start again, in sunny
South Florida. Become Captain of his Own Goddamn Ship.

Only it never quite happened for him. He got a gig with the Coast Guard, but
he didn't think much of those "pussies," so he ended up with the U.S.
Merchant Marine. He hated taking orders, but he loved the sea. And he loved
the long trips he got to take. So did we. Life was different when he wasn't
around. At night I'd kneel next to my bed and pray that the Seaman's Union
would call in the morning and drag him off to some remote hellhole, where
he'd fall overboard in a storm and get eaten by a shark. Alas, all my
prayers went unanswered. Ray always returned to the family. He couldn't get
enough of his family. Ray dear had a problem, see. He liked to be serviced.
And with four women in the house, he felt entitled.

I was nine years old when he came to my room one night and told me we were
going to play the lollipop game, a special game for a father and a favorite
daughter. And -- We have a winner! - I was that favorite daughter .

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Review of No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel from Amazon.com:

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Supermodel Dickinson's sex- and booze-soaked autobiography brings readers on a roller-coaster ride through the world of modeling, the emptiness of superficial relationships and the perils of drug addiction. Admitting that "terror is a great motivator," Dickinson fought like a tigress to establish her career. Courageous and confident of her worth, she demanded $20,000 for a job when the going rate was $5,000. Bolstered by Andy Warhol's advice, "you make your own luck," Dickinson represented Hush Puppies, Max Factor and Virginia Slims and ignored Calvin Klein's comment, "models aren't supposed to think." As a result, Dickinson is more interesting than some might expect, immersing herself in details about modeling and refining her skills as a photographer. Friendships with then-struggling actor Bruce Willis and her sisters have surprising warmth. The obligatory sensationalism is here concerning affairs with Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Liam Neeson and Sylvester Stallone along with accounts of her multiple marriages and a near-fatal car wreck. While denouncing her hedonistic existence, Dickinson is also honest enough to acknowledge the stimulating aspects of success and glamour, explaining why they lure insecure personalities and imprison them past the point of no return. The book is sometimes predictable and psychologically simplistic, but Dickinson comes across as a triumphant survivor. Her willingness to recognize her own flaws makes it easy to relate to her positive message and should inspire readers searching for solutions to career and personal conflicts. Color & b&w photos.
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Synopsis
In over 25 years on the catwalk, Janice Dickinson lived out nine lives and more. In the 1970s - era of the all-American blonde - she emerged as a pioneer, one of the first brunettes to make it big. When models made 150 dollars an hour, she demanded 20,000 dollars a day and got it. She graced major magazines, in photographs by Avedon and Irving Penn and fashions by Versace and Calvin Klein. In Paris and Milan and Studio 54, she partied and debauched with Gia Carangi and Jack Nicholson, Mick... read more

Book Description

The life of Janice Dickinson is a story of extremes: uncontrolled energy, mad self-confidence and crushing insecurity, a boundless appetite for life and a ceaseless drive to self-destruct. During the 1970s she was the first lush-lipped, long-stemmed, dark-eyed brunette to break through and become not just a model but a supermodel -- a term she coined for herself.

She graced major magazine covers from Vogue to Elle to Cosmopolitan, in photographs by Avedon and Irving Penn and fashions by Versace and Calvin Klein. She was voracious in everything: affairs both passionate and casual, endless partying, and a drug habit that dogged her through twenty years and three husbands. She spent her glory days with Gia Carangi and Christie Brinkley and her nights with Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Sylvester Stallone. And wherever she went, Janice captured the imagination of everyone who encountered her.

Yet the tale Janice Dickinson has lived to tell is no mere diva cartoon. For the haunting undercurrent in her life is a violent dance of cruelty and abuse with her own father -- a story she tells here for the first time. And as she careens from runway to rehab to rock bottom to recovery, readers will be captivated by her tale of survival . . . and by its cautionary power for anyone who still believes that fashion -- or life -- is an easy business.

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source: Intellingencer

Janice Dickinson: Her Lips Aren't Sealed

BY MARC S. MALKIN

Jack Nicholson may be a notorious ladies' man, but at least one former lover doesn't see what all the fuss is about. In her upcoming memoir, Car Wreck Woman: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, former seventies model Janice Dickinson remembers Nicholson as someone who, though "full of himself," was merely "okay" in the sack. (Wait till you read what she recalls Big Jack saying to her the morning after -- it was actually too graphic for us to print.) Dickinson also has some harsh words for legendary model matriarch Eileen Ford. Dickinson claims that when Ford first saw her, she rejected her for being "too ethnic" and having big lips. But Dickinson would get her revenge. She eventually signed with Ford Models when Eileen's husband, Jerry, learned Dickinson was up for a big JVC electronics ad campaign and promised he could get her a $20,000-a-day rate (her agency at the time, Wilhelmina, only asked for $5,000). But then, after a brief tenure with Ford, Dickinson decided it was time "to punish Eileen" by jumping to Ford's archrival, John Casablancas's Elite. She told Eileen the news over the phone: "It's me, big-lipped Janice. I'm going to Elite. I don't like you, I've never liked you." Eileen insists she has no recollection of Dickinson's claims. "I don't remember that much about her because she was in my life such a short time," she told us last week. "I'm an Aries. We try not to mention the unpleasant things. If something is unpleasant, I usually try to forget about it."

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From : America's Top Model Website

JANICE DICKINSON

Judge

Janice Dickinson, one of the world's first supermodels, returns as an expert judge for the second cycle of AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL to offer her peculiar praises and often-sassy critiques to the aspiring top models.

At the tender age of 14, Dickinson embarked upon what would become an ultra-successful career in modeling, and proceeded to break the mold of the classic American blonde beauty. She also became the first model to insist on being paid like a star--and treated like one, too. By age 19, Dickinson had moved to New York City to pursue her career full time. She was featured in the pages and on the covers of every major fashion magazine including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar Swimsuit Issue, Cosmopolitan and Playboy. She walked the runways of Milan and Paris and wore the clothes of prominent fashion designers including Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein. She was also featured in the ads of prestigious cosmetics companies such as Revlon, Max Factor and Clairol.

In her book NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, Dickinson candidly bares it all to reveal the inside track on her meteoric rise to the top of the modeling world, her painful and bumpy slide to the bottom, and the shocking, reckless, steamy, funny, outrageous and drug-filled moments in between.

By sharp contrast today, Dickinson's life is gratefully centered on genuine friendships, a healthy lifestyle, an interest in photography, and the joys of motherhood.

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from : AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL

Janice Dickinson

Janice Dickinson, one of the world's first supermodels, helped elevate the industry to new heights during the 70s and 80s as she graced the covers of numerous high-profile fashion magazines, including Vogue, Mademoiselle, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Time and Life. She was also featured in top designer runway shows, including Versace, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Perry Ellis, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors, among many others. She is founder of her own make-up line, and recently wrote her autobiography, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel. Dickinson is now a mother of two.

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SUPERMODEL KISSES & TELLS ON JFK JR.

TALK about lip service! Supermodel Janice Dickinson says she was so wild about JFK Jr. she made out with him outside a ladies' room - even though he was dating future wife Carolyn Bessette!

MODEL Janice Dickenson says of JFK: "I kissed him hard."
"I kissed him hard," boasts Dickinson, 45, who was one of the world's top models in the 1980s. "He was a fabulous kisser."

Dickinson told Steppin' Out magazine she met the Camelot heir on a "blind date."

He took her to New York's fabled Studio 54, where she says they made out "on top of the bubblegum machine near the ladies' bathroom. He had a girlfriend he didn't tell me about. Her name was Carolyn (Bessette)."

JFK Jr. wasn't her only beau. Dickinson says she bedded Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Prince Albert, Liam Neeson and others.

She also claims a sexy lesbian romp with Kelly LeBrock, ex-wife of martial-arts star Steven Seagal, and a naughty threesome with Rocky IV bad guy Dolph Lundgren and James Bond villainess Grace Jones.

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A FALL FROM THE RUNWAY
Supermodel Janice Dickinson tells all about her rise to fame
BY MARGARIA FICHTNER
mfichtner@herald.com

Maybe it was the burnished skin, the dark, liquid eyes, the quizzical brows and the black, muscular hair, all of it such a contrast to the apple-pie fetchiness of Cheryl Tiegs, the pow-diggedy, off-kilter pizazz of Lauren Hutton and the rosy blandness of all those Nordic blonds. But what most people remembered was the mouth, that thick, bee-stung mouth, a mouth made for coos, puckers and eff-you cackles, a mouth like a pomegranate, earthy and tart.

''I was the hottest bitch in the world for a minute,'' the mouth is saying now, the words fading into a soft sigh at the other end of the phone. ``I was the bee's knees.''

If you happened to be cruising even the most remote fringes of the fashion world in the 1970s and early '80s, even if the closest you ever got to the gilt-chaired salons of Paris and Milan was the magazine rack at Publix, you hardly could have avoided Janice Dickinson. Long before the modeling world would discover that other Broward beauty, Niki Taylor, this sultry, self-styled ''Polish mutt'' from Van Buren Street, Hollywood, had kicked and clawed her way to the top.

''And it was really hard,'' says Dickinson, who reads Friday night at Books & Books from No Lifeguard on Duty (ReganBooks, $24.95), a brave, profane memoir of her escape from childhood abuse into the even more risky whirl of bright lights, big cities and spiraling self-destruction. 'Getting the door slammed in my face at every appointment: `Sorry. Your face isn't the right shape to sell magazines.' 'Sorry. You're way too ethnic.' 'Excuse me. You don't serve our purposes.' 'You'll never make it in this town. You'll never make it, period.' ''

But Dickinson did make it, and there she was, maybe the first of the big fashion divas, magnifique, even dÃ©licieuse, skimming the runways of Calvin, Gianni and Valentino; adorning the sleek covers of Cosmo, Bazaar, Elle and Vogue; braced across the crotch of a tree in Africa for Playboy; nude and dripping in a shower shot with four grinning hunks; wrapped in a $28 terry kimono for a catalog layout; splayed across the sides of buses. Her credits rolling (Revlon, Max Factor, Clairol, Halston, Blass, Perry, Oscar) and her image caught -- seized, really -- by the lenses of Mike Reinhardt, Peter Beard, Avedon, Penn, Bill King, Parkinson, Scavullo, she was hot, hot, hot. Scalding. Haughty. Demanding. And often high, high, high. Doing who-knows-what on that charter flight to Tokyo. Snorting poor, doomed Gia Carangi's heroin at a shoot for Italian Vogue. So squiffed on champagne she once sailed right off Valentino's runway and into the lap of a flabbergasted Sophia Loren.

THE LOVERS

List reads like

who's who of stars

Even off-camera, she sizzled, swanning past beefy doormen into Studio 54, palling around with Warhol, Keith Richards and Belushi, attracting A-list lovers as if they were flecks of lint: Jack Nicholson (''You were okay, Jack. Really''); Warren Beatty (``He was great, if you must know''); Mick Jagger (``[I]ndefatigable''); Bruce Willis (``It was nice'') and, finally, Stallone (''It didn't last long, but I think I enjoyed it''), with whom she had a famous, tabloid-blared affair that ended when DNA tests proved that Dickinson's daughter, Savvy, now 8, was fathered by another man. You can read about all these guys in the book (see pages 164, 172, 178, 187, 249), but there were plenty of others, too, and at least one woman, so ``They're lucky they made the cut,'' Dickinson says, laughing. ``I need an accounting firm.''

No wonder she put the B in bad, the X in excess, the Va in Va-va-varoom.

''I would walk into a room and things would flat-out change. . . , '' Dickinson writes. ``In those days beauty worked for me. Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.''

And some things, as three failed marriages, two bouts in rehab and flame-out after flame-out eventually taught her, no one should want, no one deserves.

THE BOOK

To whom

it may concern

''I wrote this book as a cautionary tale,'' Dickinson says, ''a tale of incest, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, Studio 54, fashion, fashion, fashion, and . . . '' -- odd, endearing hybrid word -- ''thrival.'' And it is, frankly, horrifying, a graphic tell-all that begins with Dickinson's early teenage years as the middle daughter of a chronically rage-aholic father, a spunky kid who managed to resist his incestuous advances but was sometimes beaten and constantly cursed, belittled, threatened and harangued.

Dickinson's book implies that her older sister Alexis, who left home as a teenager, bore the brunt of their father's malicious attention, but all the household's women suffered, including youngest sister Debbie, who trailed Janice into big-time modeling, and their mother, Jennie, ''a good Catholic woman who did everything she was ever asked,'' Janice says, except calm her husband's angry words and fists.

''Janice never forgave him and therefore never went through the work to get to a point where she could live in peace with herself or with men in general,'' says Alexis Dickinson Mayer, now a stained-glass artist and real-estate agent in Southampton, N.Y. ''I, on the other hand, made peace with him before he died and with myself, and so I have a life that works. It was a very small part of my life and unfortunate, but it was resolved.'' Mayer says that Debbie, who returned to South Florida to nurse their mother through the last stages of the cancer that killed her in 1995, ``has her own ghosts to pursue, but she's not had the hell-life Janice has, it seems. . . . [S]he found God, and that's really important in her life now.''

Janice, meanwhile, found Judith Regan, the New York publisher famous, and famously envied, for her luck at sniffing out bestsellers, among them Wally Lamb's novel I Know This Much Is True, The Rock's wrestling autobio and, most recently, Michael Moore's Stupid White Men. Dickinson had begun what would become No Lifeguard on Duty in the 1970s after the late makeup artist Way Bandy suggested she deal with her childhood scars by writing about them. ''I picked it up again later as part of the process of a 12-step program,'' she says. The exercise produced piles of scrawled legal-size pages, ''rooms full. I couldn't stop.'' When she finally phoned Regan, 'I just told her from my heart about my life. She said, after about a minute, `I'm in.' I didn't turn in one shred of writing sample. It's kind of a devastating blow to all real writers out there. . . . ''

Regan, who ''grew up when Janice was big. . . . She was zany,'' assigned a writer to shape and focus the frazzled manuscript but did not muffle Dickinson's blurting, uncensored voice. The book, which went on sale Tuesday, has a respectable 20,000-copy first printing and already is causing a blip on Amazon. ''I think her story is a profound example of the horrors of a wounded child,'' Regan says. ``And it also talks about how these early traumas forever haunt us, and how they're very hard to resolve. . . . When women are that beautiful, it's a sort of double-edged sword, because it attracts all kinds of heartache if you're as wounded as she was.''

''I wrote this book to urge people not to keep secrets,'' Dickinson insists. ''I still suffer. The memories are still vivid. I made a lot of mistakes. I was shaped by my mistakes. But the past is done. The future's up to me.'' Now a 47-year-old mother of two (son Nathan, by second husband Simon Fields, is 15), Dickinson is still heart-stoppingly beautiful and says she has been sober for more than two years.

She lives in Bel-Air, Calif., where she is a photographer and pursues a private life syncopated with AA meetings, PTA committees and child advocacy. ''I'm tempted,'' she says of her old addictions, ''but I have a sponsor that I check in with daily, and I write in a morning journal and pray. I go to daily meetings, and I am of service. I fill myself up. I give myself 100 percent to my children. The one thing I was meant to be on this earth is their mother. They taught me how to live. I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled. And I have really great friends.'' More than 200 are listed in the book's three and a half pages of acknowledgments, among them her children's teachers, her local pizza place, the folks who wash her dogs and a few old friends from South Florida.

MIAMI CONNECTION

Recalls Janice

as loving child

One of these is Barbara Goolsby, a Miami Legal Services lawyer and former Miami News reporter whose daughter, Pam Adams, was Dickinson's best friend in junior high. ''Janice was tall and gangly and very funny,'' Goolsby remembers. ''She and Pam and these gangs of kids used to take me to concerts with them. . . . I was constantly tracking them as they were frisking about, because Janice had this little Volkswagen, and Lord knows where they would go. . . . But I found her to be a very loving child. She's the closest friend my children ever had.'' When Pam died of cancer in 1988, Goolsby had her daughter's watch inscribed and gave it to Dickinson. ''I feel about Janice like I do about Pam,'' she says. ``She's very dear to my heart.''

Whether No Lifeguard on Duty will endear Dickinson to readers remains to be seen. Still, ''I lived the stuff that Jackie Collins writes about,'' she says. ``I lived it, baby. It's my pathetic life, but I'm proud of it, and I've got so many more stories. I mean, there's only 200-some-odd pages in this book. We're gonna nail it with the next one.''

Next one?

``Hell, yes.''

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For Janice Dickinson, Sylvester Stallone is the most incredible lover she's ever had
By Guylaine Cadorette, Hollywood.com, Inc--

HOLLYWOOD, February 12, 2002

Janice Dickinson, who has dated John Kennedy Jr, John Cusack, Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson, claims in her new book Car Wreck Woman: The Accidental Life Of The World's First Supermodel that Sylvester Stallone was by far the best between the sheets:

"Until you've been thrown in bed and Rambo-ed all night, you cannot understand the meaning of great sex. I had bells going off in my head."

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Liz Amith - August 23, 2002

"My story is a cautionary tale about incest, drugs, sex, rock and roll, Studio 54 and fashion, fashion, fashion. Along the way, I dated a few Academy Award winners. But there is substance and ingredient there."
So says formerly high-living supermodel Janice Dickinson, describing -- and somewhat tamely, too -- her sizzling autobiography. This is a book that might be called "a tell-all -- and then some!" The memoir is titled "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel."

There may be some disagreement that Janice was the world's first supermodel, but no other catwalker has had such a yeasty life, nor been willing to speak of it so jovially and graphically. Janice, now a magnificently well-preserved 47, speaks with the candor of Cher, the bite of Joan Rivers and the sexual bonhomie of Mae West. Her take-no-prisoners style has won -- and lost -- many a celeb pal over the years. But the girl can't help it.

"Are the men I wrote about going to be upset?" she asks. "So what? They were fair game. They were single. I was the hottest girl at the moment. I wrote the book longhand. The words just flew. It wasn't hard at all. Every page has punch."

DICKINSON'S LOVERS throughout her 1970s-'80s heyday read like a "Who's Who" of Hollywood studs. Here are some brief, but to the point, thumbnail sketches of a few:

Warren Beatty: "The most fabulous iconic legend who ever lived. I mean, I thought I was Bonnie to his Clyde."

Bruce Willis: "He loves the book, and he loved making the cut. He's secure with himself." (Janice also tells of taking Bruce to an emergency room in New York City -- these are his pre-"Moonlighting" years -- after some nut attacked him and split his lip!)

Mick Jagger: She met the then not-quite-so-mossy Rolling Stone at a dance club on Sunset Boulevard -- "our lips locked together ... and it was electric. And both our kissers are real, too." (I guess she means collagen-wise.)

Jack Nicholson: "What can I say about the Joker. The Joker was wiii-ild!"

Liam Neeson: "I did get kind of graphic about his anatomy. Everybody's talking about it!"

Sly Stallone: "It was a pain/pleasure relationship. There's plenty I didn't write about. That's probably why he'll be upset. It was volatile. He is funny. He is the funniest actor ever! Too bad his comedy didn't work out. But he is a funny person." (He wasn't laughing during all that unpleasantness over the paternity of one of her children -- DNA finally proved he was not the father. But that's all water under the bridge. Sly's sense of humor is bound to come to the fore when he gets to his chapter.)

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER was never her type. Michael Douglas? Maybe, if he wasn't married. She could go on, but she wants you to buy the book, natch. Janice, who once partied hard, is now clean, sober and devoted to her two children, Nathan and Savannah. Motherly she is, but no somber matron. She still has an eye for men. She'd love to meet George Clooney. She danced with young hottie Justin Timberlake recently, and she dines occasionally with old friend Bruce Willis. But she's given up champagne for Perrier, and says, "Getting sober saved my life. I wish this for anyone who has unresolved conflicts and child abuse issues. ... I'm going to start a foundation for sexually abused children, and I do a lot of gay activist work today, a lot of pediatric AIDS work."

SUMMING HERSELF UP -- yesterday, today and tomorrow -- Janice says, "My life dictated that I develop a hard shell, an in-your-face, acerbic style. I lashed out at people before they could 'get' me. I'm no longer that woman. I meditate, do yoga and exercise. I have great friends." Pausing to soak in her new serenity, Janice grins and laughs: "And yes, if I had to do it all over again, I would live exactly the same way."

She has survived to tell her tale. A movie version of this book is in the works, and there is talk of a cosmetics contract with MAC and maybe -- though the genre grows tired -- her own reality show. Of course, Janice is a pistol, and her "reality" would probably be a great deal of fun!

P.S.: Janice ran into Mike Tyson the other night at L.A.'s Lounge. He told her he's buying 100 copies of her book. Her reaction? "I wanted to bite him. I wanted to bite him!" For better or worse, Janice confined herself to a demure thank you.

ENDQUOTE to end all! Ann Coulter boasts the No. 1 bestseller in American nonfiction, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right." Many read it with slack-jawed wonder, thinking if one simply switched "liberal" to "conservative" throughout, it would make more sense.

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People in the News:
Friday, November 29, 2002
***

Some people don't mind being fake. Take former supermodel Janice Dickinson, for example.

Dickinson admits that she's addicted to having plastic surgery and she's completely happy with her obsession. Or so she told ETonline.com.

Her laundry list of nips and tucks includes having her eyes done, a brow lift, breast augmentation and a tummy tuck. And as though that wasn't enough, she also has undergone collagen and Botox treatments.

Dickinson has already written one book, "No Lifeguard on Duty," which chronicles her alleged affairs with stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. She told "Entertainment Tonight" that she'll recount her pursuit of being flawless in a book titled "Everything About Me Is Fake, Now I'm Perfect."

We wonder . . . has Dickinson taken a gander at Michael Jackson's schnoz lately? If ever there was a walking advertisement against plastic surgery . .

2004-02-23T19:55:00.000-08:00

Sat, 30.11.2002, 17:49
The next Michael Jackson
From ET Online

Some people don't mind being fake. Take former supermodel Janice Dickinson, for example.

Dickinson admits that she's addicted to having plastic surgery and she's completely happy with her obsession. Or so she told ETonline.com.

Her laundry list of nips and tucks includes having her eyes done, a brow lift, breast augmentation and a tummy tuck. And as though that wasn't enough, she also has undergone collagen and Botox treatments.

Dickinson has already written one book, "No Lifeguard on Duty," which chronicles her alleged affairs with stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. She told "Entertainment Tonight" that she'll recount her pursuit of being flawless in a book titled "Everything About Me Is Fake, Now I'm Perfect."

2004-02-23T19:53:00.001-08:00

from Procedure Promises to Smooth Out Wrinkles

May 5, 2003 5:40 pm US/Eastern

Pittsburgh (KDKA) From Botox to collagen injections -- there are a lot of ways to get rid of those fine lines and wrinkles temporarily; but a new procedure is promising to smooth out wrinkles permanently -- and without surgery.

Model Janice Dickinson, 48, recently traveled to Tijuana, Mexico -- where these Artefill injections are already available. "It's just a better way of walking around re-touched!" says Dickinson.

Though she's convinced with the results, Pittsburgh plastic surgeon Leo McCafferty says he has some concerns about the procedure.

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Bio from : America's Next Top Model

Janice Dickinson

Janice Dickinson, one of the world's first supermodels, helped elevate the industry to new heights during the 70s and 80s as she graced the covers of numerous high-profile fashion magazines, including Vogue, Mademoiselle, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Time and Life. She was also featured in top designer runway shows, including Versace, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Perry Ellis, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors, among many others. She is founder of her own make-up line, and recently wrote her autobiography, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel. Dickinson is now a mother of two.

2004-02-23T19:52:00.001-08:00

September 27, 2002 -

Supermodel Janice Dickinson blasted Angelina Jolie's depiction of her friend Gia Carangi in the HBO movie 'Gia' to Steppin' Out magazine's Chaunce Hayden. "HBO paid me to come to New York and tell all the stories that I knew about Gia," Dickinson says. "But I don't think they did a good job. Angelina didn't nail it. Gia was the hottest broad going. She was a big ol' bull dyke who hated men for whatever reason. When I first met her, she pulled out a switchblade."

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JANICE DICKINSON

"When I first go involved in the fromtheyear2000.com project, I was immediately touched not only by the serene beauty of this unique and amazing piece of artwork, but I was inspired by both the artist and the powerful story behind it.
Mario Magro and The Magro Arts Foundation has done an unparalleled job at bringing the artistic and spiritual worlds together for "The Auction of Hope" to create an awareness to the modern injustices of our society such as hunger, war and racism.

As further evidence of the Magro Arts foundation's commitment to positive change, unity and hope for the children of our future generations, The Make a Wish Foundation was made an honorary recipient of "The Vision of St. John." This only reiterated my overwhelming desire in being involved in such an important cause.

I urge you as a mother first to lend your support to "The Auction of Hope" so that the children of our future may get a chance to live in a less troubled world. May all children be blessed."

2004-02-23T19:51:00.000-08:00

Notes from july 2003 TV TOME

Janice is an accomplished photographer, she has shot such stars as Sylvester Stallone, Naomi Campbell, Sharon Stone, and Randy Quaid.

Janice was one of the first American models to land a foreign contract. It was with JVC, in the late 70's as the face of a new camera.

Janice has been married a total of three times. First to a musician, then a producer and then a nightclub owner.
She has two children, a son Nathan and a daughter Savannah also known as Savvy.

Janice published her memoir entitled "No Lifeguard on Duty: the accidental life of the world's first supermodel" in April 2002. It became a "Los Angeles Times" best-seller.

Her next book "Everything About Me is Fake...And I'm Perfect" is scheduled for release in April 2004.

Janice lives in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles.

Janice served as a guest-editor for "More" magazine during the spring/summer collections in New York City.

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Intelligencer
May 27, 2002
Janice Dickinson

By Marc S. Malkin

Janice Dickinson: Her Lips Aren't Sealed

Jack Nicholson may be a notorious ladies' man, but at least one former lover doesn't see what all the fuss is about. In her upcoming memoir, Car Wreck Woman: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, former seventies model Janice Dickinson remembers Nicholson as someone who, though "full of himself," was merely "okay" in the sack. (Wait till you read what she recalls Big Jack saying to her the morning after -- it was actually too graphic for us to print.) Dickinson also has some harsh words for legendary model matriarch Eileen Ford. Dickinson claims that when Ford first saw her, she rejected her for being "too ethnic" and having big lips. But Dickinson would get her revenge. She eventually signed with Ford Models when Eileen's husband, Jerry, learned Dickinson was up for a big JVC electronics ad campaign and promised he could get her a $20,000-a-day rate (her agency at the time, Wilhelmina, only asked for $5,000). But then, after a brief tenure with Ford, Dickinson decided it was time "to punish Eileen" by jumping to Ford's archrival, John Casablancas's Elite. She told Eileen the news over the phone: "It's me, big-lipped Janice. I'm going to Elite. I don't like you, I've never liked you." Eileen insists she has no recollection of Dickinson's claims. "I don't remember that much about her because she was in my life such a short time," she told us last week. "I'm an Aries. We try not to mention the unpleasant things. If something is unpleasant, I usually try to forget about it.

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2nd Round of 'Top Model' to Debut on UPN
Thu Nov 20,11:17 AM ET

LOS ANGELES - The next round of "America's Next Top Model" will start Tuesday, Jan. 13 on UPN.

Model Tyra Banks (news), who created the series, will again lead the judging panel. She will be joined by former supermodel Janice Dickinson, the senior fashion editor for Jane magazine and a fashion photographer. Plus, there will be guest judges.

In July, waitress Adrianne Curry, 20, of Joliet, Ill., was picked as the winning contestant on the show over Shannon Stewart, 18, a student from Franklin, Ohio, and Elyse Sewell, 20, a clinical researcher from Albuquerque, N.M.

The grand prize included the opportunity for a Revlon modeling contract and management by Wilhelmina Models, as well as an appearance in Marie Claire magazine.

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from the site amiannoying.com

Supermodel

The Resume
(February 17, 1953- )
Elle Model
Wrote 'No Lifeguard on Duty'
Why she might be annoying
For a while she said she was born in 1962.
She claimed Sylvester Stallone fathered her child, DNA tests proved he didn't.
She was a cocaine addict and needed rehab.
She has breast implants.
She was stoned out of her mind when she fell off the catwalk onto Sophia Loren.
She is divorced.
Why she might not be annoying
She earned $10,000 per day when she modeled.
She had lesbian relations.
At age six, she and her sister were molested by their father.
She is a fan of Howard Stern.
She dated Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Willis.
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2004-02-23T19:47:00.000-08:00

Notes From the Front Row

Despite the much-lauded return of Naomi Campbell to the New York catwalks this week (where she showed the next generation a thing or two about working it on the runway), it still seemed that the supermodel-as-celebrity was soooo last century. But outside yesterday's Marc by Marc Jacobs show, lithe lovely Jacquetta Wheeler found herself signing a stack of autographs. "This never happens," she laughed, baffled, as an ardent young fan produced a pile of glossy photos for her to pen. We suggest she check eBay tonight, to see if there's a market.

Meanwhile, former supe Janice Dickinson was doing some hocking of her own, handing out postcards advertising her new tell-all, "No Lifeguard on Duty," on the fashion shuttle. The savvy self-promoter has been attending shows for More magazine, and, frankly, she's not impressed by the current catwalkers. "Some lack personality," she said of the mannequins at Bill Blass. "And where's the diversity? The designers use the same models every show. It's boring!" Still, there are some things about the old days she doesn't miss. "It's nice to be sober and not falling off the runway anymore," she said.

Amy DiLuna

2004-02-23T19:39:00.000-08:00

Sunday, November 30, 2003
The 'Supermodel': From Shabby to Chic in a New York Minute
Monday October 13, 5:07 pm ET
Cindy Crawford, Veronica Webb, Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell Go From the Runway to the Small Screen During VH1's 'When Supermodels Ruled The World' Premiering Sunday, October 19 at 11:00 pm*

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- From the runway to your living room, supermodels have made their mark on society and changed pop culture forever.
"When Supermodels Ruled The World" takes an in-depth look at how these "It" girls changed the world's perception of glamour, beauty and fashion. Through interviews and compelling footage, this hour-long episode, premiering on Sunday, October 19 at 11:00 pm,* explores how the pop culture landscape was transformed by the introduction of the Supermodel.

"When Supermodels Ruled The World" is the first installment of the VH1 original series, "When ____ Ruled The World," that charts the rise and fall of various cultural trends. Upcoming episodes include "When Metal Ruled The World" and "When Standup Comics Ruled The World."

During this one-hour premiere episode Cindy Crawford, Rachel Hunter, Christy Turlington, Veronica Webb and Naomi Campbell intimately chronicle the glamorous and not so glamorous era of the Supermodel with first hand accounts of what it was like backstage during some of the biggest fashion shows and how the 80's and early 90's party scene impacted the lives of these women.

Here are what some former Supermodels and industry executives had to say about the era of the Supermodel:

Michael Gross, Author ... . "I remember the first time I ever encountered a Supermodel in the flesh. I walked into a men's room at a restaurant in uptown Manhattan, and there was Janice Dickinson, with a coke spoon up her nose and her hand down some guy's pants."

Janice Dickinson on coining the phrase "Supermodel" ... . "I did coin the term back in 1979. I was working night and day like a fiend. Monique Pollard, my then agent at Elite said to me with her French accent, 'Janice, are you crazy? You are accepting every single job there is ... who do you think you are Superman?' And I said 'No honey, I'm Supermodel. And from now on you will address me as Supermodel.'"

Kim Alexis, former model (on preparing for a job) ... . "And all of a sudden, he's telling me to change my look ... .so I went and starved myself."

Michael Gross, Author ... . "At the peak, the Supermodels were able to do things like demand Concorde seats not only for themselves, but for their sisters, their hairdressers, their private chefs, and their little dogs ... Their demands became insane."

Naomi Campbell on three powerful models (herself, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista) ... . "Linda and Christy would say to designers who didn't use black models in their shows. 'If you don't use her you're not getting us.'"

"When Supermodels Ruled The World" is a production of VH1 with Brad Abramson and Matt Hanna serving as Executive Producers. David Collins, Michael Williams and David Metzler from Scout Productions also served as Executive Producers.

VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in nearly 84 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital services including VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, VH Uno, VH1 Mega Hits and VH1 Country. Connect with VH1 at www.VH1.com.

VH1 is a registered trademark of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom International Inc. MTV Networks also operates and offers joint ventures, licensing agreements and syndication deals whereby its programming can be seen worldwide.

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