Janice Dickinson, Biography, Age, Family, Spouse, Breast cancer, Books and Model

May 2024 · 5 minute read

Janice Dickinson Biography

Janice Dickinson (Janice Doreen Dickinson) is an American model, photographer, author and talent agent. She has been disputably described by herself and others as the first supermodel for her notable career as a model. She is one of the most successful models of the 1970s and 1980s.

She also served as a judge on four cycles on America’s Next Top Model beginning in 2003. She opened and started a modeling agency in 2005, which was documented in the reality television series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (2006–08).

Janice Dickinson Age

Janice was born on 16th February 1955. She is 64 years as of 2019.

Janice Dickinson Family

Janice was born in Brooklyn, New York. She is the second born daughter to Jennie Marie and Ray Dickinson. Her mother was of Polish descent and her father was of Scottish and Irish ancestry. Her Father used to sexually abuse one of her sisters. She was subjected to verbal and physical abuse from her father because she wouldn’t give in and let him have sex with her.

She was raised in Hollywood, Florida with her elder sister, Alexis, who became a real estate agent, and her younger sister, Debbie, who also became a model.

Janice Dickinson Spouse | Janice Dickinson Husband

Janice got married to Dr. Robert Gerner, a psychiatrist, in December 2016. They had been engaged since 2012. Janice has however been married some other four times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy, Simon Fields, Alan B. Gersten and Sylvester Stallone.

Her relationship, with Stallone ended when DNA results proved that he was not the father to her daughter Savannah. She joined a number of women who, in 2014, claimed that comedian Bill Cosby raped her in 1982, adding that she tried to write about this in her 2002 autobiography but that Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and her lawyers to remove the details.

Janice Dickinson Children | Janice Dickinson Son | Janice Dickinson Kids | Janice Dickinson Daughter

Janice has a son, Nathan, and a daughter, Savannah born in 1994.

Janice Dickinson Robert Gerner

Before Janice and Gerner got engaged, Gerner had allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with a female patient from 2004 to 2011 and lived with her for three years. This amounted to a breach of conduct for the psychiatrist. The California Medical Board filed a complaint against Gerner in 2015 who was forced to surrender his doctor’s licence.

Gerner was also reportedly suspended in 1994 for sexual misconduct with another patient. Janice met Robert through his real estate son in what she claims ‘It was love at first sight.’ Before their marriage in 2016, Gerner underwent a surgery for a face lift.
Janice Dickinson 1980

Janice Dickinson Photos | Janice Dickinson Now | Janice Dickinson Young

Janice Dickinson Breast Cancer

Janice was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer In March 2016. However, when her doctor found a lump during a check-up, Janice admitted she didn’t think it was cancerous. By July,2016, she was celebrationg being cancer-free after completing a course of radiation and undergoing two lumpectomies. ‘The radiation is over. I’m cancer free. Cancer-schmancer!’ she said.

Admitting the depression it had sunk her into she said, ‘In the beginning I was in just a state of numbness. I just walked around just feeling numb. I was afraid for my children. They were very, very upset. Then I went through a period that I wouldn’t be attractive to my fiance. I thought, “I’ll just remove them (my breasts)…”
She however said that her husband greatly supported her.

Janice Dickinson Book

  • No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel
  • Everything About Me Is Fake– And I’m Perfect Paperback
  • Check, Please!: Dating, Mating, and Extricating Paperback
  • Janice Dickinson Model | Janice Dickinson 80s

    Dickinson moved to New York City to pursue work as a model, in the early 1970s, after winning a national competition called “Miss High Fashion Model.” Dickinson was turned down several times by modeling agents, including Eileen Ford, who informed Dickinson she was “much too ethnic. You’ll never work.” This is because it was at a time when blue-eyed blondes dominated the fashion scene.

    She was discovered by the fashion photographer Jacques Silberstein when his girlfriend, actress Lorraine Bracco, mentioned she liked Dickinson’s look. Wilhelmina Cooper 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. 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.

    She eventually signed with Ford Models to land a major ad campaign for a new JVC camera. She however had not forgotten Ford’s initial rejection, and was intent on revenge. She defected together with other models to John Casablancas’s upstart Elite Model Management.

    By the 1980s, She 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. She appeared within and on covers of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Photo, Vogue, Marie Claire, and Playboy, and worked with some of fashion’s best-known names, including Bill Blass, Gianni Versace, Valentino Garavani, Azzedine Alaïa, Pino Lancetti, Halston, Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein.

    She has appeared on the cover of Vogue for a total of 37 times. She also appeared on the cover of Elle seven times in a row and has been the face of ad campaigns for brands including Revlon, Alberto VO5, Balmain, Obao, Christian Dior, Clairol, Hush Puppies, Orbit gum, Max Factor, Virginia Slims, and Cutex. As a way to sustain her relevance within the fashion industry as she aged, she became a fashion photographer.

    In 2008, she launched her own jewelry line on HSN. She recorded a song entitled “Crazy”, In 2009, which was written and produced by Craig Taylor. While she claims to have coined the term supermodel in 1979, and to be the first “supermodel”, the word already was known in the 1940s. The writer Judith Cass used the term in 1942 in her Chicago Tribune article “Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show”. In 1943, author Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in his book So You Want to Be a Model!

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