Janice Dickinson

Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955) is an American model, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. She has described herself as the first supermodel. One of the most successful models throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she expanded her profession to reality television in 2003 by judging for four cycles on America's Next Top Model. She subsequently opened her own modeling agency in 2005, which was documented as The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. Janice Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents Ray Dickinson, of Belarusian descent, and Jenie Dickinson née Pietrzykoski, of Polish descent. She was raised in Hollywood, Florida with two sisters, elder Alexis, a real estate agent, and younger Debbie, a model. Dickinson has been open about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered as a child and teenager, and how her father used to sexually abuse one of…

Also Known As: Janice Doreen Dickinson, Janice Dickinson