Janice Dickinson



Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955)[1]  is an American model, photographer, author, and talent agent.

Initially notable as a model, she has described herself as the first supermodel.[5]  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 in the reality-television seriesThe Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (2006–2008).

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[hide]  *1 Early life ==Early life[edit] == Janice Dickinson was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, the middle daughter of Jennie Marie (née Pietrzykoski) and Ray Dickinson.[6]  Her mother was of Polish descent[6]  and her father was of Scots-Irish ancestry.[7]  She was raised in Hollywood, Florida, with two sisters, elder Alexis, who became a real estate agent, and younger Debbie, who also became a model.[2] [8]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Modeling
 * 2.1.1 First supermodel
 * 2.2 Television
 * 2.3 Music
 * 3 Personal life
 * 3.1 Age
 * 4 As an author
 * 4.1 Bibliography
 * 5 See also
 * 6 References
 * 7 External links

Dickinson has been open about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered as a child and teenager,[2] [5] [9] [10]  and how her father used to sexually abuse one of her sisters. 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."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-starpulse.com_10-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Modeling<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the early 1970s, Dickinson moved to New York City to pursue work as a model after winning a national competition called "Miss High Fashion Model."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.askmen.com_8-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi_11-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  At a time when blue-eyed blondes dominated the fashion scene,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-time81_12-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  Dickinson was turned down several times by modeling agents, including Eileen Ford, who informed Dickinson she was "much too ethnic. You'll never work."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi_11-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  She was discovered by the fashion photographer Jacques Silberstein when his girlfriend, actress Lorraine Bracco, mentioned she liked Dickinson's look.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  Wilhelmina became Dickinson's first agent. Her modeling pursuits led her to Paris, France, where her "exotic looks" secured her reputation within the European fashion industry.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi_11-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She returned to New York City in 1978, and spent the next several years working steadily, earning $2,000 per day, nearly four times the standard rate.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-seattlepi_11-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  Dickinson eventually signed withFord Models to land a major ad campaign for a new JVC camera.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nymag_15-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  Dickinson, who had not forgotten Ford's initial rejection, was intent on revenge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nymag_15-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  She soon became one of twenty Ford models to defect to John Casablancas's upstart Elite Model Management.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-time80_16-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">By the 1980s, Dickinson was considered a supermodel, as she "possessed the kind of name and face recognition" that the majority of women in the modeling industry strive to achieve.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.askmen.com_8-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  She appeared within and on covers of magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Photo, Elégance, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Playboy, and worked with some of fashion's best-known names, including Bill Blass, Gianni Versace, Valentino, Azzedine Alaïa, Pino Lancetti, Halston, Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-No_Lifeguard_on_Duty_18-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Dickinson has appeared on the cover of Vogue (both American and international editions) 37 times.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  She appeared on the cover of Elle seven times in a row and has been the face of ad campaigns for products including Revlon, Alberto VO5, Balmain, Obao, Christian Dior, Clairol, Hush Puppies, Jenny, Keiko swimwear, Orbit gum, Lou Taylor handbags, Max Factor, Virginia Slims, and Cutex.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-time81_12-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-No_Lifeguard_on_Duty_18-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson looked for ways to sustain her relevance within the fashion industry as she aged, becoming a fashion photographer. In 2008, Dickinson launched her own jewelry line on HSN.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19] ====First supermodel<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==== <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson is the self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  In E! Network's E! True Hollywood Story, she described how she coined the term "supermodel" in 1979.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  Her manager, concerned that at the peak of her modeling career she was doing too much work, told her, "You are not Superman." Dickinson replied, "I am not Superman, I am a supermodel."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson's claims for coining the term "supermodel" and being the first one to represent the title are disputed. The term "supermodel" was already known in the 1940s. The writer Judith Cass used the term in 1942 for her article in theChicago Tribune, which headlined "Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  Later in 1943, Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in his modeling book.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]  The term was popular throughout the 1960s to 1970s. The New York Times, on March 21, 1967, and The Daily Times, on May 19, 1967, referred to Twiggy as a supermodel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  In 1968, an article in Glamour described Twiggy, Cheryl Tiegs, Wilhelmina, Veruschka, Jean Shrimpton, and fifteen other top models as "supermodels".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]  The July 8, 1970 issue of The Gazette described Penelope Tree as a supermodel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  The April 23, 1971 issue of The Hour headlined one of its articles "Supermodels Reveal Their Beauty Secrets", including an advertisement with the caption "Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs". The article also says, "The fashion/beauty world is dotted with Supermodels" and "Cybill Shepherd a Supermodel who may turn into a Superstar."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  Jean Shrimpton was also described as a supermodel by Time in 1971,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  as were Margaux Hemingway by Vogue on September 1, 1975,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  Beverly Johnson by Jet in 1977,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  and Naomi Sims in the 1978 book Total Beauty Catalog by K.T. Maclay.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lisa Fonssagrives<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  and Dorian Leigh, whose careers began before Dickinson was born, have been retroactively recognized as the 20th century's first supermodels.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]  Gia Carangi has also been called the first supermodel<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-independent_38-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[38] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]  as well as Jean Shrimpton.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44] ===Television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2003, Dickinson returned to media attention with her stint as a judge on the reality television series America's Next Top Model. She was hired after producer Tyra Banks read No Lifeguard On Duty and realized that Dickinson could offer the contestants advice on the perils of the fashion industry. As a panelist, Dickinson became known for her wit and incisive, brutally honest critiques.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45]  Dickinson frequently quarreled with her fellow judges, particularly Kimora Lee Simmons and Nolé Marin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[46]  A recurring source of tension between Dickinson and Banks was the former's dubiety concerning plus-size models.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[47]  After four cycles, Banks fired Dickinson, replacing her with Twiggy. Dickinson was hurt by the decision. "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," she said. "I was to America's Next Top Model what Simon Cowell is to American Idol."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[48]  Despite this, Dickinson made guest appearances on the following three cycles: As the photographer for a photo challenge in cycle 5, in a mentor role in cycle 6, and as the interviewee for an interview challenge in cycle 7.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2005, Dickinson was a cast member on The Surreal Life during its fifth season. She was confronted by cast mate Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth during a publicity photo shoot while Dickinson was posing with a prop knife. After being physically separated by Bronson Pinchot the two continued to feud throughout the series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2006, Dickinson starred in her own reality show, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, for the Oxygen cable-television channel. The program, which ran for four seasons, documented Dickinson launching a new career as a modeling agent. Despite high ratings in key demographics<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[specify]  a fifth season was not ordered.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She appeared with British model Abigail Clancy in Abbey & Janice: Beauty & The Best, a reality series detailing Clancey's attempt to break into the American modeling market. The show debuted in the United Kingdom on Living on May 14, 2007, and premiered in the U.S on Oxygen on February 19, 2008.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In November 2007, Dickinson became one of the celebrities taking part in the British reality television show I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here!. Dickinson set the record for most Bushtucker trials, competing ten times in a row.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dailymail_51-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51]  In the finale of the series, it was announced that Dickinson had gained second place in the competition, with Christopher Biggins coming first.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson was also a contestant for series two of the American version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which began airing in June 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52]  She was eliminated from the show on June 18, 2009.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2009, Dickinson was a guest judge on the Finnish version of the Top Model franchise. She created controversy after the claimed effects of accidentally mixing a sleeping aid with champagne caused her to fall down a flight of stairs and burst out at the models. Dickinson was then taken to a hospital where she was told she had no visible injuries. She later apologized to the models during the show's airing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[53]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Other guest appearances include "Still Charmed and Kicking", an episode of Charmed in which Paige disguises herself as Dickinson in order to fool both her sisters and old family friends that people important to her did actually care that she had "died." Her sisters soon find out that "Dickinson" is actually Paige, and they order her to reverse the spell. She made a cameo appearance in Darren Hayes's music video "On the Verge of Something Wonderful".

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2010, Dickinson appeared on the celebrity edition of British dinner-party contest Come Dine With Me, on which she frequently butted heads with former Page 3 Girl Samantha Fox over her glamour modeling career, and flirted withCalum Best.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[54]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson appeared in the fourth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which premiered in December 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[55]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2011, she guest-starred in the episode of 90210 titled "Project Runway".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[56] ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2009, Dickinson recorded a song entitled "Crazy", which was written and produced by Craig Taylor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[57] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson has been married three times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  Simon Fields<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  (1987–1993)<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]  and Albert B. Gerston (February 1995 – 1996;<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]  also recorded as Alan B. Gersten).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-11" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  With Fields she had a son, Nathan Ray Michael Fields<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  (born May 5, 1987).<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]  She has a daughter, Savannah Rodin Dickinson (born February 23, 1994),<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]  by former boyfriend, Michael Birnbaum.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  Dickinson thought thatSylvester Stallone was Savannah's father. A paternity test proved that the biological father was not Stallone, but Birnbaum.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-14" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  In her books and in interviews, she has also discussed her numerous sexual relationships with male and female celebrities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[58]  In addition to Stallone, her past lovers include Warren Beatty,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-15" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  Jack Nicholson,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-16" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CM_59-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[59]  Liam Neeson,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CM_59-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[59]  Sir Mick Jagger,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CM_59-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[59]  Ronnie Wood,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notw_4-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Kelly LeBrock,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60]  Prince Albert II,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nndb_61-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  Roman Polanski,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[62]  Dolph Lundgren,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notw_4-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Grace Jones,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-notw_4-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  Bruce Willis,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nndb_61-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  Frank Zappa,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nndb_61-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  John Cusack,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nndb_61-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61]  David O'Hara,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dailymail_51-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51]  and Jon Lovitz.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[63]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2012 Dickinson became engaged to marry Dr. Robert Gerner, a psychiatrist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[64] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[65]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During an episode of the reality show The Surreal Life, Dickinson revealed in-depth information about the emotional abuse she endured as a child and teenager. She stated to her cast mates, "My father was a pedophile. He was a dark, angry guy. Being forced to have a pedophile for a father is probably the most horrible thing that can happen to a child, bar none."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.hollywood.com_9-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  She said, "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."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.hollywood.com_9-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  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?".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-starpulse.com_10-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ===Age<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson's date of birth is variously stated as February 15, 17, or 28 in 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-usmagazine.com_2-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  or 1960. In Dickinson's autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty, she wrote, "When I was just eighteen months old, in 1957, the family moved from Brooklyn to Florida."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-No_Lifeguard_on_Duty_18-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  She also graduated in 1973 from South Broward High School in Hollywood, making 1955 her more likely year of birth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-No_Lifeguard_on_Duty_18-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the first episode of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Celebrity%E2%80%A6Get_Me_out_of_Here! I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here!]'' on November 12, 2007, Dickinson stated her age as 53.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-66" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[66]  1954 would be more accurate, but her age at time of high school graduation is as yet unknown. In the eighth episode of the same series, she said, "I waited until I was 32 to get married."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[67] ==As an author<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dickinson released a memoir detailing her "wild days" as a supermodel. Titled No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel (2002), the book was effective in introducing her to a new generation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.askmen.com_8-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ed_Bernstein_68-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[68] Dickinson's follow-up memoir was Everything About Me is Fake… And I’m Perfect. (2004),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-www.askmen.com_8-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Everything_About_Me_Is_Fake_69-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[69]  in which she describes her life in modeling; her experience with plastic surgery; and her battles with anorexia, bulimia, and alcoholism.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Everything_About_Me_Is_Fake_69-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[69] Her next memoir, ''Check Please! Dating, Mating, and Extricating'' (2006), is purported to show a lighter and more tender side of Dickinson. In the book, Dickinson discusses the men in her life, and prescribes her rules for dating.