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, 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.
Janice Dickinson was born in Brookly...
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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, 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.
Janice Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents Ray Dickinson, of Belorussian descent, and Jenie Dickinson née Pietrzykoski, of Polish descent. She has two sisters, elder Alexis, a real estate agent, and younger Debbie, a supermodel.
In the early 1970s, Dickinson moved to New York City to pursue work as a model. After being turned down by Eileen Ford, Dickinson was discovered by modeling agent Jacques Silverstein when his girlfriend, Lorraine Bracco, mentioned she liked her look. Dickinson's modeling pursuits led her to Paris, where her "exotic looks" secured her...
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