Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 17, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American supermodel of Polish and Belarusian descent who started modeling at the age of 14. At 5’10″, she has appeared on the covers of Vogue, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar Swimsuit Issue, Cosmopolitan and Playboy. She has also appeared in ads for Revlon, Max Factor and Clairol. Dickinson is the author of three books, including No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, Everything About Me Is Fake… And I’m Perfect and Check, Please! : Dating, Mating, and Extricating. Besides writing and modeling, she is a photographer and a mother of two, Nathan and Savannah. She has been divorced 3 times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy, Alan B. Gersten, and Simon Fields.
Dickinson claims to have coined the title “supermodel,” which she still applies to herself in the present tense. Though she proclaims herself the world’s first supermodel, the term was first used regarding Jean Shrimpton in the 1960s.
