| 00:00:11 | ♪♪♪♪♪♪
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| 00:00:12 | so many good looking men, so little time.
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| 00:00:15 | ..
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| 00:00:16 | I better behave myself.
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| 00:00:18 | Impossible!
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| 00:00:19 | ..
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| 00:00:20 | Your breasts feel so good.
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| 00:00:23 | Maybe I'll be a lesbian.
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| 00:00:25 | And always over the top.
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| 00:00:27 | I need an accounting firm to count up
all the husbands I have had
and a-list actors.
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| 00:00:32 | What do you want from me?
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| 00:00:33 | But supermodel janice dickinson
isn't over the hill.
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| 00:00:37 | I just wrote an article for "harper's bazaar,"
"
janice dickinson's been turning heads
SINCE THE MID-1970s.
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| 00:00:44 | The exotic dark-haired beauty
broke the blond chokehold on the fashion
world.
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| 00:00:51 | And while most of her counterparts
faded from the spotlight, dickinson clung
onto fame.
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| 00:00:58 | There was nothing that she wouldn't do.
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| 00:01:00 | There was nothing that she wouldn't say.
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| 00:01:02 | Oww!
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| 00:01:03 | The inside story of this most daring of cover
girls
is the classic tale of sex, drugs, and disco.
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| 00:01:11 | But dickinson's high-wire actdidn't come
with a safety net.
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| 00:01:22 | Far from the fashion capitals of new york,
paris, and l.a.
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| 00:01:26 | ..
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| 00:01:30 | Florida.
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| 00:01:31 | This is where janice dickinson grew up.
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| 00:01:34 | She was born on february 17, 1955.
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| 00:01:39 | From birth,janice was never quiet.
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| 00:01:42 | Janice was--she was a wild child.
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| 00:01:44 | Janice was a wild child.
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| 00:01:45 | She couldn't sit through mass, you know?
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| 00:01:49 | Janice and her two sisters
took after theirpolish-american mother, jennie.
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| 00:01:53 | DURING THE 1940s, SHE WORKED AS A MODEL.
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| 00:01:56 | Their irish dad, ray, served in the merchant
marine
after being thrown out of the navy
for assaulting an officer.
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| 00:02:04 | Ray's family became an outlet for his hostility.
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| 00:02:08 | He hated afro americans.he hated jewish people.
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| 00:02:10 | he hated latino
people.
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| 00:02:13 | He hated everyonethat wasn't himself.
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| 00:02:15 | He was such a hater.
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| 00:02:15 | I always questioned his hatred at the dinner
table.
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| 00:02:18 | And pow! pow! I'd get beaten.
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| 00:02:21 | I'd walk into a roomwith him,
and he'd justsort of grumble.
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| 00:02:23 | And I'd wanna run outscreaming,
but I tried to be polite
"
you know, hang out for a while
till my skin basically crawled off my body
and had to leave the room.
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| 00:02:34 | He exuded such a meanness.
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| 00:02:37 | As janice grew older,
she discoveredan even darker side to her
dad.
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| 00:02:42 | My father was a pedophile.
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| 00:02:43 | He vented his frustrations out on his daughters.
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| 00:02:47 | He molested my older sister,
and I was aware of this process going on
and I was too afraid to say anything to anyone.
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| 00:02:54 | He did things he shouldn't have
and had no boundaries himself.
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| 00:02:58 | But he also loved us all to distraction.
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| 00:03:01 | And janice pushed whatever buttons
that caused him to be very violent with her.
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| 00:03:10 | Janice: He physically abused me for denying
him sexually.
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| 00:03:14 | He just used to slap me around
and, you know, knock me around.
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| 00:03:17 | I had a big mouth.
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| 00:03:18 | So he'd smack me around
for not giving in to his whims.
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| 00:03:22 | Janice found refuge at a local supermarket,
where fashion magazines opened her eyes
to a whole new world.
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| 00:03:30 | I would straddle the linoleum floor
and I would look at lauren hutton
sailing the pages of "vogue,"
and I just wanted to be that girl in those
photographs.
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| 00:03:41 | By age 14, janice discovered rock-'n'-roll.
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| 00:03:46 | The year: 1969.
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| 00:03:48 | Singer-poet jim morrison of the doors was
in.
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| 00:03:51 | Like morrison, dickinson says
she also experimented with drugs.
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| 00:03:55 | Pot, lsd, and quaaludes provided the perfect
escape.
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| 00:04:02 | Going to concerts and getting stoned
was the thing to do.
|
| 00:04:06 | I think the suffering in her household
was tremendous.
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| 00:04:11 | boys-- the wilder, the
better.
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| 00:04:16 | Someone with a motorcycle, someone with a
car,
someone with long hair beyond his shoulder
blades,
someone who looked like
he just got off a wall in a post office.
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| 00:04:27 | Janice's mom tried to soften the rough edges.
|
| 00:04:32 | My mother just said to me, you know,
"
and I was like, "i don't need grace and manners,
"
but my mother always steered me in the right
direction.
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| 00:04:43 | At age 16, janice took her mother's advice
and enrolled in a local modeling school.
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| 00:04:49 | She won a competition and went on
to the national finals in new york city.
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| 00:04:54 | I knew I could deliver.
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| 00:04:55 | That was what you call confidence,
without sounding conceited.
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| 00:04:59 | I just knew that I could pirouette down the
runway
and show the clothes the way my predecessors
did.
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| 00:05:06 | So when I won the contest, I really was kind
of like,
"oh, gee, shucks, golly, it shouldn't have
been me.
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| 00:05:12 | "
it felt amazing.
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| 00:05:16 | I mean, I got this big old trophy.
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| 00:05:19 | Janice told her father
she wanted to become a professional model.
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| 00:05:22 | He would say, you know, "you'll never look
like that.
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| 00:05:24 | "You could never be that glamorous.
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| 00:05:27 | "
I mean, that's not so great for a young girl's
self-esteem.
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| 00:05:35 | Dickinson graduated from high school in 1973.
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| 00:05:38 | She headed to new york, moved in with friends,
and did whatever it took
to get noticed in the fashion world.
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| 00:05:45 | I would just pound on photographers' doors
begging them, "please, you need to take my
pictures
"if you're testing your lights.
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| 00:05:52 | "I mean, I'd be perfect, you know,
"
the fashion world kind of just said,
"
she wasn't cheryl tiegs.
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| 00:06:01 | She wasn't christie brinkley.
|
| 00:06:03 | I had these sloppy ethnic lips
and sloppy ethnic features that I knew could
model,
but it was convincing the other people.
|
| 00:06:12 | One day, janice showed up
at the prestigious eileen ford modeling agency.
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| 00:06:17 | Talent booker monique pillard liked what
she saw.
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| 00:06:21 | We were not lookingfor that type at the time,
and-- but I knew--something in me told me,
this girl is gonna make it and is gonna make
it big.
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| 00:06:30 | Janice says eileen ford thought otherwise.
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| 00:06:35 | She took one look at me
"
I just couldn't believe that came out of
her mouth.
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| 00:06:41 | I couldn't believe that she just said,
"
so I was thinking to myself as I walked out,
you know,
0 perfect head flip curl,
I'll make you eat your words, bitch.
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| 00:06:53 | Next stop, the wilhelmina agency.
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| 00:06:57 | In the summer of 1973,
dickinson signed on as a junior model.
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| 00:07:02 | Janice posed
while photographers tested their cameras
and lights.
|
| 00:07:07 | Around the same time,
janice tracked down an old friend from florida.
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| 00:07:11 | 22-Year-old musician ron levy
jammed with the king of the blues, bb king.
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| 00:07:17 | You ever fallen in love with someone on the
spot?
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| 00:07:20 | I guess I'm a romantic,
and love for me is like a leaf falling from
a tree
because, I mean, that's where I clocked my
first husband.
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| 00:07:27 | I saw this young man, and he could play his
ass off.
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| 00:07:33 | A few months later, dickinson married levy.
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| 00:07:37 | It was a band member's wife
and all the drugs, sex, and rock-'n'-roll
that went with that.
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| 00:07:44 | And that does not bode for longevity.
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| 00:07:49 | Ron played music,
and janice waited tables between modeling
jobs.
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| 00:07:54 | One night, she showed up at a gig
to surprise her husband.
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| 00:07:58 | Inside the club,
janice says she got a surprise of her own.
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| 00:08:03 | When you walk in and you find your husband
banging some chick against the wall,
some backup dancer against the wall,
it's not the most pleasant thing
a young girl wants to experience.
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| 00:08:13 | It was the second male in my life
that had just-- that I didn't trust.
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| 00:08:18 | then there was my
husband.
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| 00:08:21 | I just walked out the door, never went back.
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| 00:08:23 | Levy said janice blew the whole thing out
of proportion,
that the woman was a friend,
and nothing inappropriate happened.
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| 00:08:31 | Still, the damage was done, the marriage
over.
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| 00:08:35 | But 20-year-old janice wasn't down for long.
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| 00:08:39 | Her agent called to say
the paris officewas scouting for fresh talent.
|
| 00:08:43 | Janice met with a visiting rep,
who brought along his girlfriend,
an up-and-coming american actress.
|
| 00:08:49 | Lorraine bracco of "sopranos" fame
was sitting right there.
|
| 00:08:52 | And there was one photograph in my book
that I'll never forget.
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| 00:08:55 | ..
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| 00:08:57 | It was just a big old, alligator, [bleep]-eating
grin,
and that was like the energy that I wanted
to portray
'cause I was like sailing across the page
like my idol, lauren hutton.
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| 00:09:06 | And lorraine got it.
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| 00:09:07 | And she goes, "jackie, I like that girl,"
with her brooklynese accent.
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| 00:09:11 | So they offered me a ticket to paris, a one-way
ticket.
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| 00:09:15 | Man, you never saw a young girl walk out
of that agency
just going, "oh, my god, I got the ticket.
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| 00:09:23 | "
coming up,the claws come out.
|
| 00:09:32 | The rumor and the buzzin the industry
was that janice is insane.
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| 00:09:37 | And later, yo, janice!
|
| 00:09:39 | She really hoped he wasthe father of savannah.
|
| 00:09:43 | She adored him.
|
| 00:09:53 | ( applause, band music )
Dibs.
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| 00:09:58 | The handy, bite-sizedfrozen snack.
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| 00:10:00 | Munch 'em.pop 'em. have fun with 'em.
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| 00:10:03 | Dibs.
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| 00:10:03 | Little.ice creamy. chocolatey.
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| 00:10:05 | In the newbig bag.
|
| 00:14:06 | In 1975, wild child janice dickinson
left manhattan for paris
to chase her dream of becoming a top fashion
model.
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| 00:14:15 | What she craved more than anything was to
succeed
and, I think, to show her family
that here I am; I've done it.
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| 00:14:26 | That november, 20-year-old dickinson
landed at charles de gaulle airport.
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| 00:14:31 | Janice was awestruck
as the driver transported her into another
world.
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| 00:14:35 | He drove me as the sun was coming up
around the eiffel tower,
around some ofthe most important
architectural structuresin the world.
|
| 00:14:46 | He drove me up the champs elysee
to the model's apartment at the agency, crista,
and it was unbelievable.
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| 00:14:51 | They had faith in me to go out
and just take paris by storm.
|
| 00:14:57 | Janice wasn't shy.
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| 00:14:59 | She tracked down some famous photographers
known as the french mafia.
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| 00:15:03 | These were the rock stars of photography.
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| 00:15:05 | So that's why I did my homework, to go and
knock on their doors
when I knew they would be photographing at
"
soon, dickinson landed her first gig,
a pantyhose ad.
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| 00:15:17 | So the stockings are going all the way up
to there,
and I'm kicking my leg up in the air,
and I'm-- aah! you know?
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| 00:15:24 | I did that same energetic grin
that I knew would work.
|
| 00:15:29 | And the french got it
because the french love anything that's different.
|
| 00:15:33 | And when I saw myself all over,
"
janice's unconventional look captivated europeans.
|
| 00:15:44 | Over the next few months,
she appeared on magazine covers across the
continent.
|
| 00:15:49 | But old insecurities lingered.
|
| 00:15:53 | They didn't felt that I deserve it.
|
| 00:15:55 | It always went back
to that voice in my head from my father
that "you're not good enough.
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| 00:15:59 | "
still, janice pressed on.
|
| 00:16:03 | She returned to america
after less than a year in france.
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| 00:16:06 | Now it was time to take on the big apple.
|
| 00:16:10 | She was totally incredible.
|
| 00:16:13 | I remember one instance,
when she was doing a booking outside,
I looked at her doing her stuff on park avenue
totally oblivious to the cars,
totally oblivious to anything that was going
on,
just showing the clothes and opening her
jacket
and walking along and everything.
|
| 00:16:28 | And I thought, my god, what a talent this
girl had.
|
| 00:16:31 | she never had
any problems.
|
| 00:16:35 | And she realized exactly everything involved,
and she was inventive and creative and beautiful.
|
| 00:16:42 | There's an emotion that she brought
when she was looking in the camera
that somehow, you know,people receive.
|
| 00:16:49 | This is not somethingthat you can explain.
|
| 00:16:52 | There aren't a lot of peoplethat come to
new york
and are instantly famous.
|
| 00:16:58 | They're instantly booked for "vogue"
and they're instantly booked for "glamour"
magazine.
|
| 00:17:02 | And she was the "it" girl.
|
| 00:17:03 | And "it" girls had no problem attracting
guys.
|
| 00:17:08 | Janice began dating michael reinhardt,
a 40-year-old photographer.
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| 00:17:13 | Reinhardt's work appeared
in the world's top fashion magazines.
|
| 00:17:17 | She always went with the hot photographer,
which is like really what you're supposed
to do
when you're a hot model.
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| 00:17:24 | You hook up with the hot photographer.
|
| 00:17:28 | Janice and michael moved in together,
and soon the real fireworks began.
|
| 00:17:33 | It was the michael showand the janice show.
|
| 00:17:37 | And so the conflict was
who was going to be the center.
|
| 00:17:42 | Oh, the arguments and the fights.
|
| 00:17:44 | [ Laughing ] oh, god.
|
| 00:17:46 | You know, that's one of the downsides
about going with a photographer,
is that the fights on the set--
and he would be like,
"that doesn't look right. that looks terrible.
|
| 00:17:57 | "
and she would blow up at him.
|
| 00:18:00 | It was a tumultuous relationship working
with reinhardt
because I had my set of ideas, and he had
his set.
|
| 00:18:07 | But the results were magic. it was just magic.
|
| 00:18:10 | Every time I opened a magazine, she was in
it.
|
| 00:18:13 | Every time I saw a billboard, she was on
it.
|
| 00:18:14 | Even tv, I mean, she was everywhere, everywhere.
|
| 00:18:18 | It was amazing.
|
| 00:18:22 | The massive exposure translated into big
bucks
and then, bigger bucks.
|
| 00:18:28 | If the day rate for a fashion show would
be $800,
I needed $1,500.
|
| 00:18:34 | When everyone else started getting $1,500,
I raised it to $2,000.
|
| 00:18:38 | Janice's income climbed even higher
when she signed on with eileen ford,
the agency that once rejected her
for not having the right look.
|
| 00:18:48 | It was so easy to negotiate for her
and to get the top dollar for her
because I knew that I had such a talent on
my hands
that the sky was the limit.
|
| 00:18:58 | But along with fame came a serious attitude.
|
| 00:19:02 | If a photographer was like taking our picture
and taking it and taking it,
"
you know, she would be like that.
|
| 00:19:08 | And, you know, she would walk off the set.
|
| 00:19:10 | And I'd be like--
she said, "you got it!
|
| 00:19:14 | "Come on, beverly. come on, let's change.
|
| 00:19:16 | "Next thing.
|
| 00:19:17 | "
I mean, it would be like--
and you just don't do those things,
or at least you don't do it unless you're
janice.
|
| 00:19:27 | In 1977, studio 54 was the ultimate spot
in new york
to let it all hang out,
with dickinson as the main attraction.
|
| 00:19:38 | We'd pull up,
and the waters would part like moses.
|
| 00:19:40 | You'd hear the boom, boom, boom, boom of
donna summer going off,
you know, and it was like--
I walked up to the bar, margarita, cigarette.
|
| 00:19:48 | I was on the dance floor for the next four
hours.
|
| 00:19:50 | That was it.
|
| 00:19:51 | The rail-thin model indulged in wild nights
of disco dancing and drugs.
|
| 00:19:58 | You have to like squeeze your skinny, little
ass
into these dresses, these bathing suits,
these designer size two, four, sixes.
|
| 00:20:06 | So a little help from my chemical friends
got me through, you know--
loss of appetite, cocaine.
|
| 00:20:14 | Meanwhile, dickinson's relationship
with michael reinhardt fell apart.
|
| 00:20:19 | In 1980, the couple split.
|
| 00:20:23 | Janice threw herself into work and more play.
|
| 00:20:26 | It would be nothing for herto rent a limousine,
do, you know, the best hotels,the best this,
champagne--
"everybody, champagne all the way around.
|
| 00:20:33 | I would take three or four of my friends
down to key west for the weekend
and get key wasted.
|
| 00:20:38 | She took every cent she had
and spent it onthe people around her.
|
| 00:20:41 | it was always
the moment.
|
| 00:20:44 | If one of my friends needed rent, I'd hand
it over
'cause I knew what it was like to be broke.
|
| 00:20:52 | Coming up, it's raining men.
|
| 00:20:55 | Here's mick jaggerfilling up my hotel room
with-- I mean,everywhere you looked,
there was pink roses.
|
| 00:21:02 | And the showdown.
|
| 00:21:04 | He can't even sit thereand listen to all
the [bleep]
that he put outonto his little girls.
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
| 00:25:34 | By 1980, 25-year-old janice dickinson
had crisscrossed the world.
|
| 00:25:39 | Wherever she went, dickinson raised eyebrows
and raised hell.
|
| 00:25:45 | The rumor and the buzz in the industry
was that, you know, janice is insane.
|
| 00:25:50 | ♪♪♪♪♪♪
|
| 00:25:56 | janice often stepped off a catwalk
and into the arms of a famous man.
|
| 00:26:01 | 00
in the morning.
|
| 00:26:04 | And he would bein a tennis outfit.
|
| 00:26:06 | He would get off an airplanein his shorts
from l.a.
|
| 00:26:08 | it would be
like february.
|
| 00:26:12 | There were others,
like legendary hollywood playboy warren beatty.
|
| 00:26:16 | I was dating the hottest actor in the world.
|
| 00:26:19 | He was dating the hottest model.
|
| 00:26:21 | We hooked up at the carlyle, did the dirty-dirty,
and the rest is history.
|
| 00:26:25 | But according to janice's sister,
beatty wanted to double the fun.
|
| 00:26:29 | At dinner, waiting for janice,
he propositioned me.
|
| 00:26:34 | And I think warren had this idea in his mind
that he was gonna do the sister act.
|
| 00:26:38 | Later in 1980, dickinson met bruce "bruno"
willis.
|
| 00:26:43 | Back then, bruce was a bartender
who liked to play tough guy.
|
| 00:26:47 | We were walking down columbus avenue one
day,
and like some guy was eyeballing me,
and bruce didn't like it.
|
| 00:26:53 | So this guy ended up giving him
a flying side kick to his mouth
and split open his lip,
and like blood started squirting out.
|
| 00:26:59 | "
and he started chasing this guy
just like he does in the movies.
|
| 00:27:02 | Bruce and janice lasted only a few months.
|
| 00:27:05 | But soon, dickinson was back on the hunt.
|
| 00:27:08 | live every moment like it's
your last.
|
| 00:27:12 | She's just always looking around the corner.
|
| 00:27:15 | She's like a man lookingfor another sexual
exploit
or someone to touch and loveand more passion.
|
| 00:27:22 | The more passion, the better.
|
| 00:27:24 | But that in itself is a horrible disease.
|
| 00:27:27 | You can never fulfill yourself doing that.
|
| 00:27:30 | All of the menjanice has been with
have fallen in lovewith the image.
|
| 00:27:33 | They wanna be seen with a supermodel.
|
| 00:27:36 | And I don't know how you can get beyond that.
|
| 00:27:42 | At a hollywood nightclub in 1981,
janice rocked out with a rolling stone.
|
| 00:27:47 | Man: How ya doing, mick?
|
| 00:27:48 | I was dancing by myself on the dance floor,
and all of a sudden, I looked down--
and mick's a good deal shorter than I am,
but size doesn't matter when you're hot.
|
| 00:27:56 | This guy was hot.
|
| 00:27:56 | "
I was like doing his mick jagger thing
like kinda better than what he was doing
himself.
|
| 00:28:01 | And I was like, "i can out dance you.
|
| 00:28:03 | in fact, I could
"
and I think he liked
"
jagger launched a british invasion.
|
| 00:28:15 | Janice: Here's mick jagger filling up my
hotel room
with-- I mean, everywhere you looked,
there was pink roses.
|
| 00:28:21 | He was courting me.
|
| 00:28:21 | So I said to my friend, "what do I do?
|
| 00:28:22 | I'm not even
"
he goes, "go out with him.
|
| 00:28:28 | "
"
but then eventually, you know, the tables
turned
because I did start to fall in love with
him.
|
| 00:28:38 | And so then he had the power. I lost my power.
|
| 00:28:41 | See, the minute like the woman shows her
vein,
the guy will just like walk all over it.
|
| 00:28:47 | Dickinson got no satisfaction from mick,
but she did get it from the fashion scene.
|
| 00:28:53 | When you're a top supermodel like that, you
know,
you are really not onlyworking five days
a week,
but sometimesseven days a week,
and then you're practically living out of
airplanes.
|
| 00:29:03 | She said, "but, janice, you are going to
get sick.
|
| 00:29:05 | "
and I said, "no, honey, I'm supermodel,
"
"
and that's how the term came to be, supermodel.
|
| 00:29:17 | That's it.
|
| 00:29:17 | Mayer: She worked day and night.
|
| 00:29:20 | And even when she was finished
with a photo session,
she worked the room.
|
| 00:29:25 | She couldn't stop.
|
| 00:29:27 | She was on a treadmill to nowhere, to everywhere.
|
| 00:29:31 | White powder fueled dickinson's manic lifestyle.
|
| 00:29:35 | At the pinnacle of my career,
I developed a nasty cocaine problem.
|
| 00:29:39 | I was working, doing six collections a year,
back and forth to paris to milan
to england to germany.
|
| 00:29:45 | How do you think we kept going back in those
days?
|
| 00:29:48 | Vitamin b12 shots didn't just cut it.
|
| 00:29:51 | We were taking cocaine.
|
| 00:29:53 | The drug took over janice's life.
|
| 00:29:56 | After seven years on top,
the supermodel started going down fast.
|
| 00:30:02 | It became increasingly difficult to book
her
because people didn't wanna take a chance
not knowing whether she was gonna show up
and everything.
|
| 00:30:10 | Then the lights went out.
|
| 00:30:13 | It happened in 1982
during a benefit concert at studio 54.
|
| 00:30:18 | Janice discovered a new passion, singing,
and agreed to perform.
|
| 00:30:23 | We're backstage,and janice is fine, you know?
|
| 00:30:26 | She's talking fine.she's fine.
|
| 00:30:29 | About ten minutes later,
[ slurring ] janice is going--
I said, "jan, what's up? what did you take?
|
| 00:30:33 | "
"
so she breaks through. she goes out onstage.
|
| 00:30:39 | She gets up there.
|
| 00:30:40 | And janice is standing there,
and the first bars of the music start.
|
| 00:30:44 | And janice is like, ♪♪ ana ena ♪♪ boom.
|
| 00:30:47 | It was a disaster becauseshe was so terrified
and she was so overdrugged when she got up
there
that she was lip-synching badly to her own
music.
|
| 00:30:59 | Janice's problem only got worse.
|
| 00:31:02 | She would hallucinate
that I was going to arrest her or something.
|
| 00:31:06 | And she would do copious amounts of cocaine.
|
| 00:31:12 | In march 1982,
friends and family staged an intervention
at dickinson's manhattan town house.
|
| 00:31:18 | I was still lit from the night before.
|
| 00:31:20 | So I thought it was a party in my living
room.
|
| 00:31:22 | I thought, whoa, what are you all doing here?
|
| 00:31:24 | "
"
monique said, "do you realize you missed,
"you know, two days worth of work?
|
| 00:31:32 | "And do you realize that, you know--
"here's what's been happening to you
"in the last six months.
|
| 00:31:38 | "And do you realize
"that you've become grouchy and angry with
"
she packed my bags, and I hightailed it
for a 28-day stint in st. mary's in minneapolis.
|
| 00:31:49 | Janice got a cool reception at the rehab
clinic.
|
| 00:31:53 | I was telling everyone my true life story.
|
| 00:31:55 | Yeah, I was dating mick and going out with
warren beatty
and hanging out with the rolling stones.
|
| 00:32:02 | They were telling me I was a pathological
liar.
|
| 00:32:04 | Eventually, dickinson opened up about what
really mattered,
her troubled childhood.
|
| 00:32:11 | I was able to tell for the first time in
my life
about why I was behaving the way I was,
the unresolved issues
from being abused 16 years on a daily basis
with this pedophile for a father.
|
| 00:32:27 | And it was the first time the cat was out
of the bag.
|
| 00:32:32 | My father came to rehab,
and we had to do the group together.
|
| 00:32:37 | And I started talking up to some of the situations
that happened when we were growing up,
and my father got up and walked out,
and janice fell apart.
|
| 00:32:52 | I told him that it was painful for me
growing up in a house of rage and hostility.
|
| 00:33:02 | And that's what drove me and propelled me
during those years for escapism.
|
| 00:33:12 | He split.
|
| 00:33:14 | And when he split, I realized,
mother [bleep], he can't even sit there
and listen to all the [bleep] that he put
out
onto his little girls.
|
| 00:33:23 | Janice completed rehab,
but she didn't stay clean for long.
|
| 00:33:27 | When she came back in the business,
you know, you're in an environment
which is not exactly
the healthiest environment around
'cause you have other people
doing drugs and things like that.
|
| 00:33:38 | I didn't quite bottom out then.
|
| 00:33:45 | Coming up,sly and the family stallone?
|
| 00:33:49 | "
she didn't--she didn't believe it.
|
| 00:33:54 | ..
|
| 00:33:55 | phil thoughtthat I was having surgery
to cover uphow empty I was inside.
|
| 00:38:36 | BY THE LATE 1980s,
Supermodel janice dickinson was worn out
from life in the fast lane.
|
| 00:38:43 | I had burnout in france,
I had burnout in england, and I had burnout
in germany.
|
| 00:38:46 | It was time to go to los angeles
to see what I could do on the magic screen.
|
| 00:38:52 | In 1986, the 31-year-old wannabe movie star
touched down in l.a.
|
| 00:38:58 | At a hollywood hot spot,
janice connected with simon fields.
|
| 00:39:03 | Simon produced music videos
for some of the biggest names in the business:
Madonna, prince, and michael jackson.
|
| 00:39:09 | Simon was different than any man I'd ever
met.
|
| 00:39:12 | Simon, he was hysterically funny,
he was extremely good-looking, but he had
vision.
|
| 00:39:19 | Simon's english,
very, you know, sophisticatedand strait-laced
kinda guy.
|
| 00:39:26 | And she's the opposite.
|
| 00:39:27 | So if you say opposites attract,
I think that was the attraction there.
|
| 00:39:33 | Fields and dickinson started dating.
|
| 00:39:36 | Four months later, janice became pregnant.
|
| 00:39:39 | First there were wedding bells.
|
| 00:39:41 | Then in the spring of 1987,
janice gave birth to a baby boy.
|
| 00:39:46 | I believe that I got humble when I had nathan.
|
| 00:39:50 | Nathan taught me how to behave like a human
being, like a mom.
|
| 00:39:55 | Dickinson put her hollywood ambitions on
hold.
|
| 00:39:59 | She settled into the role of wife and mother.
|
| 00:40:02 | In the summer of 1989,
janice and 2-year-old nathan flew to north
carolina,
where simon produced his first feature film,
"
dickinson's mom, jennie, also visited the
set
with an unwelcome guest, janice's dad.
|
| 00:40:20 | Ray dickinson was 67.
|
| 00:40:22 | He suffered from a heart condition
and alzheimer's disease.
|
| 00:40:25 | Still, janice couldn't let go of her childhood
anger.
|
| 00:40:29 | The father-daughter tension erupted into
an ugly scene.
|
| 00:40:34 | I saw him like kick my son.
|
| 00:40:36 | When he kicked my son, I went-- I went ape
[bleep].
|
| 00:40:38 | I said, "that's it, my son's not gonna get
abused.
|
| 00:40:42 | "'Cause I was abused, and you're being abused.
|
| 00:40:43 | "So I'm gonna take him, mom, and I'm gonna
take him away,
"
I called 911 'cause he was having an attack.
|
| 00:40:49 | He was hitting everybody.
|
| 00:40:50 | My mom said, "here, make sure he has his
"
so we followed the ambulance,
and I threw the heart pills out the window.
|
| 00:40:55 | He was already in custody of the ambulance,
but I still feel like that I should have
told them
that he had a heart condition.
|
| 00:41:01 | But when I left him at the hospital,
I told him, "bye-bye, I'll see you in the
next life
"'cause this life, you've made it miserable
for me.
|
| 00:41:10 | "How dare you did what you did to me
"and our entire family.
|
| 00:41:14 | "
and that's the last time I saw him.
|
| 00:41:19 | He was looking at me,
and I know he was lucid at that moment,
but I meant every word.
|
| 00:41:24 | I had--
my husband was looking at me like I was insane.
|
| 00:41:27 | Ray passed away the next day.
|
| 00:41:30 | She was very-- and stillis very unforgiving.
|
| 00:41:35 | And, you know, you have to move on sometimes.
|
| 00:41:38 | You can blame your past and your experiences
for the person you are
or you can take responsibility
and become the person you wanna be.
|
| 00:41:48 | I was not present when they scoured his ashes.
|
| 00:41:50 | I did not even attend my own father's funeral.
|
| 00:41:55 | I have the anger issues
that my older sister has been able to overcome,
which is why I admire her so much.
|
| 00:42:01 | She's been able to forgive her predator,
her abuser.
|
| 00:42:07 | I have not.
|
| 00:42:09 | Meanwhile, dickinson's marriage to simon
fields
began to unravel.
|
| 00:42:14 | It wasn't because of any fault on his part.
|
| 00:42:17 | It was me.
|
| 00:42:18 | I was beginning to pick up the bottle again.
|
| 00:42:21 | So I sought treatment a second time
for alcoholism and pill addiction.
|
| 00:42:26 | I still hadn't come to terms with the unresolved
issues,
once again, of childhood, my dad.
|
| 00:42:31 | Simon filed for divorce in may 1992.
|
| 00:42:35 | The couple went head-to-head
ina bitter custody fight over 5-year-old
nathan.
|
| 00:42:40 | Simon alleged janice was an unfit mother.
|
| 00:42:43 | When the dust finally settled,
the court ordered joint custody,
but janice was granted much less time with
nathan.
|
| 00:42:52 | Dickinson threw herself back into modeling.
|
| 00:42:56 | She also discovered another talent
behind the camera.
|
| 00:43:00 | Smile! great.
|
| 00:43:02 | [ Camera clicking ]
I love it!
|
| 00:43:05 | I always knewshe could take pictures
because she alwaystook pictures
when she was with thesedifferent photographers.
|
| 00:43:11 | And she was working with my daughter,
and anansa was going through that little
teenage stage.
|
| 00:43:16 | So she wasn't the most adorable little girl
at that time.
|
| 00:43:19 | And janice says, "anansa, stop being a little
'b'
"
anansa was like, "did you hear what she just
"
"
"
"
by late 1992,
janice's heart was on the mend.
|
| 00:43:39 | She found romance
with 26-year-old tv producer michael birnbaum.
|
| 00:43:43 | But dickinson also jumped into the ring
with movie star sylvester stallone.
|
| 00:43:48 | In the spring of 1993,
a pregnancy test turned up positive.
|
| 00:43:53 | She said she had connected with two different
guys
and she said she didn't knowwhose baby it
was.
|
| 00:44:00 | I was tripping out
big time.
|
| 00:44:04 | Finally, janice leveled with stallone,
telling sly she believed he was the dad.
|
| 00:44:10 | Sly had doubts.
|
| 00:44:11 | Still, he decided to end a five-year relationship
with model jennifer flavin to be with dickinson.
|
| 00:44:17 | No matter what happened,
whether the baby was or wasn't his,
and he was just so supportive.
|
| 00:44:23 | I felt that janice was so afraid.
|
| 00:44:25 | It was very hard for her to really accept
that there was this man that was gonna be
there for her
no matter what happened.
|
| 00:44:33 | The media wanted all the dirt.
|
| 00:44:36 | The tabloid reporters would go through my
trash
and pull out like tampax and like, you know,
beer bottles
and like all sorts of like stuff, you know.
|
| 00:44:45 | And I'd go, "eww, this is so invasive, you
guys.
|
| 00:44:48 | "
on february 23, 1994,
janice gave birth to a daughter, savannah.
|
| 00:44:58 | Janice looked forward
to settling into family life with stallone.
|
| 00:45:02 | But a month after savannah was born,
sly had second thoughts.
|
| 00:45:07 | He ordered a paternity test.
|
| 00:45:08 | I got the news from long beach genetics
that the child wasn't his.
|
| 00:45:14 | "
she didn't-- she didn't believe it.
|
| 00:45:19 | we broke
up.
|
| 00:45:22 | Life went on, but it was really, really difficult
and it was really sad.
|
| 00:45:27 | She really hoped he was the father of savannah.
|
| 00:45:30 | She adored him. they were powerful together.
|
| 00:45:32 | I think he's strong enough to balance janice,
and they could have really made it.
|
| 00:45:37 | I think they really could have made it.
|
| 00:45:40 | Janice now knew
michael birnbaum fathered her child,
but she dreaded another painful custody battle.
|
| 00:45:46 | So she said nothing to birnbaum.
|
| 00:45:49 | Instead, janice drank.
|
| 00:45:51 | In late 1994, a friend set dickinson up
with 43-year-old real estate developer
and club owner albert gersten.
|
| 00:46:00 | Gersten loved to party, and before long,
janice was at the center of gersten's world.
|
| 00:46:06 | Now, you don't put an alcoholic in a nightclub
and expect that you're going to be able
to balance out your life.
|
| 00:46:15 | Janice ignored the warning signs.
|
| 00:46:17 | At 39, she married for the third time
on valentine's day 1995.
|
| 00:46:23 | The dickinson-gersten ceremony created a
buzz all over town.
|
| 00:46:28 | The wedding was incredible.
|
| 00:46:30 | We had this train of women
all with these giant, red, heart-shaped hats
and red lace push-up bra outfits.
|
| 00:46:39 | It was fabulous,
but, I mean, not a soul there
thought it would last more than an hour.
|
| 00:46:43 | I mean, you know?
|
| 00:46:45 | Within a year, strike three.
|
| 00:46:48 | The marriage was over.
|
| 00:46:50 | Janice focused on her kids, nathan and savannah.
|
| 00:46:53 | Salter: She had two beings that counted on
her,
so she had to sort of give up
her selfish, super passionate ways
in order to relate to two little human beings,
which I think is amazing.
|
| 00:47:06 | And she's donean incredible job with them,
and I think they havekept her sane.
|
| 00:47:12 | Saner, I should say.
|
| 00:47:14 | Most of my friends' momsare like quiet.
|
| 00:47:17 | They like don't saywhat they think.
|
| 00:47:19 | Mom just like says what she thinks.
|
| 00:47:25 | She's like not afraid
to put herself on the line or something like
that.
|
| 00:47:28 | Yes, I love that!
|
| 00:47:29 | But dickinson still battled her demons
"
I got sober when it was my time, which was
july 17, 2000.
|
| 00:47:40 | I made a phone call to a friend of mine,
tony peck,
and he suggested I try a 12-step program.
|
| 00:47:46 | And my biggest problem was
absolutely walking in through the door
and raising my hand
and admitting that I had a problem
because I wanted you to like me for that
cover girl.
|
| 00:47:56 | Later that year,janice made another tough
call.
|
| 00:48:00 | Her little girl, savannah, was growing up
and constantly asked about her daddy.
|
| 00:48:05 | Dickinson finally contacted michael birnbaum.
|
| 00:48:09 | Janice: We were out on the santa monica pier
when michael first met his daughter
after seven years of not knowing that he
had a daughter.
|
| 00:48:14 | He was not to blame. it was me.
|
| 00:48:16 | It took him by storm.
|
| 00:48:17 | He was completely flabbergasted and shocked
and damaged
because it was painful just to inflict upon
somebody,
"
and like, whoa, that's pretty hard-core.
|
| 00:48:29 | And when they met, it was extremely touching
because they both went up to get lemonade
and they were both standing
like in the same body language and position.
|
| 00:48:39 | And I should have seen it all along,
but I was so thick and stupid and alcoholic
that I couldn't at the time.
|
| 00:48:44 | And I chose not to.
|
| 00:48:45 | Michael is a much better parent than I am.
|
| 00:48:47 | He's the one saying, "no television.
|
| 00:48:48 | "Make her read more," you know?
|
| 00:48:50 | "
michael's one smart dad,
and they're really close and really tight.
|
| 00:48:56 | In fact, she's gonna change her name to birnbaum.
|
| 00:48:59 | "
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| 00:53:48 | From abuse to addictions,
from runway shows to hot lovers,
janice dickinson's life read like a sizzling
summer novel.
|
| 00:53:57 | So janice's next move came as no surprise.
|
| 00:54:00 | Well, I said, "janice, you gotta write a
"
and I knew that it was gonna be so beneficial
for her
to delve into those kind of issues.
|
| 00:54:09 | I just sat there
and wrote and wrote and furiously wrote
until like my hand was going so fast and
so hard
and the pen into the paper.
|
| 00:54:17 | Memories were coming up about my dad, my
childhood.
|
| 00:54:20 | I decided to write "no lifeguard on duty"
to lift this stuff from the inside,
to bring it to the surface.
|
| 00:54:28 | Janice's 2002 memoir made it to the bestseller
list.
|
| 00:54:32 | She followed up with a second tell-all,
..and I'm perfect!"
that book exploreddickinson's latest addiction,
cosmetic surgery.
|
| 00:54:44 | Janice: Can't live without it.
|
| 00:54:45 | There's more botox in my face
than a small country in micro-indonesia.
|
| 00:54:49 | My teeth, my hair color, my nails, my breasts--
everything about me's fake, but I'm perfect
because I'm happy with who I am.
|
| 00:54:56 | One of the reasonspeople such as janice
in the public eyeget plastic surgery,
because it prolongs their career.
|
| 00:55:02 | There's a fair amount of pressure
on people in the entertainment business,
in front of the camera, to look good.
|
| 00:55:07 | I wanna be the best-looking corpse that ever
lived.
|
| 00:55:10 | She has a sense of humor about everything
and even aging.
|
| 00:55:14 | And for a supermodel, that ain't funny.
|
| 00:55:17 | phil" episode
to talk about plastic surgery.
|
| 00:55:22 | Dickinson's method of self-improvement
didn't impresstv's most outspoken therapist.
|
| 00:55:28 | How do you make it okay in your mind
that you can do that?
|
| 00:55:30 | phil thought that I was having surgery
to cover up how empty I was inside,
and I told phil he might wanna try some hair
plugs
and to lose-- get some lipo himself.
|
| 00:55:43 | Ladies and gentlemen,
the girls from "america's next top model"!
|
| 00:55:47 | But supermodel tyra banks liked what she
saw,
brutal honesty.
|
| 00:55:52 | In 2002, banks signed dickinson to be a judge
on her reality tv show, "america's next top
"
every week,someone is eliminated
until we finally have thatlast top model
standing.
|
| 00:56:04 | On-air, janice went all out.
|
| 00:56:08 | You were working here.
|
| 00:56:09 | The photograph was not working.
|
| 00:56:10 | And there's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
|
| 00:56:13 | It sucks.
|
| 00:56:14 | I had no idea she was gonna be as honest
and as "tell it like it is" as she is.
|
| 00:56:18 | But, you know, it works for television.
|
| 00:56:20 | But in an interview with the "new york times"
in 2004,
janice revealed that working with tyra was
"arduous"
and that she didn't "agree with the concepts
"
everybody has their own opinion
of what is a good picture, what isn't,
what's a good model,
who has potential but is not showing it,
or whose time is up.
|
| 00:56:42 | Then janice decided her time was up.
|
| 00:56:45 | After four seasons, she left the show in
2005
with no hard feelings.
|
| 00:56:51 | Hell, no!
|
| 00:56:52 | I'm moving on to bigger and better things!
|
| 00:56:54 | Janice began planning her own tv series
about starting a business in the world she
loved.
|
| 00:57:00 | I'm opening a modeling agency on the oxygen
network.
|
| 00:57:02 | We're starting in june, so I'm here looking
at models,
checking out the bookers, checking out the
trends.
|
| 00:57:09 | "The janice dickinson modeling agency"
premiered in summer 2006.
|
| 00:57:14 | As cameras rolled, janice discovered cool
models
and hot ratings.
|
| 00:57:19 | Her series scored the largest audience to
date for oxygen.
|
| 00:57:23 | Season two was an even bigger hit.
|
| 00:57:25 | Her third season began filming in 2007.
|
| 00:57:29 | In her personal life,
dickinson worked hard to stay sober
and play supermom to nathan and savannah.
|
| 00:57:36 | She adores her children.
|
| 00:57:38 | Nathan, do you want cindy?
|
| 00:57:39 | Nathan: Mom, stop!
|
| 00:57:42 | Oh, my god.
|
| 00:57:43 | Been there, done that. ah!
|
| 00:57:45 | I know that I embarrass my children
because I'm loud and obnoxious,
but my heart's in the right place.
|
| 00:57:53 | For more than three decades, janice somehow
managed
to keep her face, figure, and outrageous
personality
front and center,
exactly where she intends to stay.
|
| 00:58:06 | She's a force because she's a survivor.
|
| 00:58:09 | She's a beautiful girl inside
and she went through all kinds of things,
but she's a survivor.
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| 00:58:15 | She's lived nine lives, you know?
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| 00:58:17 | And believe me, she has two more cats in
her.
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| 00:58:21 | I write, I'm on television, and I'm in the
pta,
and I'm the loudest soccer mom there is.
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| 00:58:28 | That's just who I am.
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| 00:58:29 | Please, all I want is a star on hollywood
boulevard,
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