Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955
[This has been disputed, as some sources put her birth year anywhere ranging from 1951-1960 (see the Age section).]) 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.
Early life
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.][www.nndb.com/people/491/000047350/ The Notable Names Database (NNDB)]
Career
Modeling
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.][home.comcast.net/~jandix/bio.html]
