Best Known As: Fashion Figure,  Television Actor

Gist:  Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955) is an American model, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. By the 1980s, she was considered a supermodel in the fashion industry,{{cite news| title=GLENN BECK. Encore Presentation: Behind the Cover Girl: Getting Real with Janice Dickinson|publisher=CNN|date=2007-01-10|accessdate=2008-08-06|url= name="www.askmen.com">{{cite web| title=Janice Dickinson biography| publisher= AskMen.com| date=2008-09-18| accessdate=2008-01-15| url= and later expanded her profession to reality television by judging for four cycles on America's Next Top Model. She subsequently opened her own modeling agency, which was documented as The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.

Life Facts:  Janice Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised in Hollywood, Florida and grew up in a dysfunctional household; her father was abusive and violent, and her mother was abusing drugs. Primarily to disassociate herself from her parents, Dickinson adopted an ambitious attitude at an early age.

In the early 1970s, Dickinson moved to New York City and began to pursue work as a model.

Dickinson has been married three times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy, Simon Fields (1987 ? 1993), and Albert B. Gerston (February 1995 ? 1996; also recorded as Alan B. Gersten). With Fields she had a son, Nathan Fields.

Her past lovers include Warren Beatty, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson, Sir Mick Jagger, In an interview on The Howard Stern Show in 2007, Dickinson claimed to have had sex with over 1,000 men.

Dickinson has been open about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered as a child, She further relayed, "I survived a monster... 16 years I was forced to keep the secret... If I ever exposed my pedophile father, I would've been murdered. So you know what he did instead? He beat me on a daily basis." In an interview, Dickinson told British magazine Now, "When he was on the way to the hospital, I tossed his medication out of the car window and didn't tell the doctors. Maybe I wanted to kill the abuser?"

Of her childhood with her "rageoholic pedophile" of a father, Dickinson stated, "Because I wouldn't give in and let him have sex with me, I was verbally and physically abused on a daily basis. I was told that I looked like a boy and wouldn't amount to anything. I think if you abuse a child, your balls should be cut off. You should be castrated immediately."

Career Facts:  Dickinson's pursuit to become a model was successful and led her to Paris. Her "exotic looks" became one of her most prominent features in securing her notoriety within the European modeling industry.

Dickinson returned to New York in 1978. She subsequently spent the next several years working steadily and partying often, reportedly interacting with celebrities such as John Belushi, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.

By the 1980s, Dickinson was considered a supermodel and was said to have "possessed the kind of name and face recognition" that the majority of women in the modeling industry strive to achieve. Dickinson appeared within and on covers of magazines such as Harper?s Bazaar, Vogue and Playboy. She worked with some of fashion's best-known names, including Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace and Calvin Klein.

Dickinson looked for ways to sustain her relevance within the modeling industry as she aged. In 2002, she released a tell-all book detailing her "wild days" as a supermodel. Entitled No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World?s First Supermodel, the autobiography was effective in introducing Dickinson to a whole new generation. Dickinson's follow-up to No Lifeguard on Duty is the 2004 book Everything About Me is Fake? And I?m Perfect.