Janice Dickinson
Janice Dickinson
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About Janice Dickinson
Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955) is an American model, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. Additionally, 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 was raised in Hollywood, Florida with two sisters, elder Alexis, a real estate agent, and younger Debbie, a model. 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". At a time when blue-eyed blondes dominated the fashion scene, Dickinson was turned down several times by modeling agents, including Eileen Ford, who informed Dickinson she was "much too ethnic. You'll never work". She was discovered by modeling agent Jacques Silverstein when his girlfriend, Lorraine Bracco, mentioned she liked Dickinson's look. Wilhelmina became Dickinson's first agent. Her modeling pursuits led her to Paris, where her "exotic looks" secured her reputation within the European fashion industry.
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