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February 15th, 2008 - Happy Birthday Janice Dickinson!
By Allie | February 15, 2008
Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955) is an American supermodel, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent.
She’s 53!
She has recently opened her own modeling agency, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, after judging for four cycles on America’s Next Top Model.
Dickinson is the self-proclaimed first supermodel. In E! Network’s E! True Hollywood Story, she described how she coined the term “Supermodel”. Her manager, concerned that at the peak of her modeling career she was doing too much work, told her, “You are not superman.” Dickinson replied, “I am not superman, I am a supermodel”.
Dickinson’s claim as being the first supermodel, however, is disputed. Dorian Leigh is widely recognized as being a supermodel, and her career began and ended before Dickinson was born.
Lisa Fonssagrives is considered by most in the fashion industry as the world’s first supermodel. Fonssagrives was in most of the major fashion and general interest magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Town & Country, Life, Vogue, the original Vanity Fair, and Time. The relationship between her image on over 200 Vogue covers and her name recognition led to the future importance of Vogue in shaping future supermodels.
In 1968, an article in Glamour described Twiggy, Cheryl Tiegs, Wilhelmina, Veruschka, Jean Shrimpton and fifteen other top models as “supermodels.”
Personal Life:
Dickinson has been married three times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy, Alan B. Gersten, and Simon Fields, by whom she has a son, Nathan Fields (born May 5, 1987). She has a daughter, Savannah Dickinson (born February 23, 1994), by former boyfriend, Michael Birnbaum. A paternity test proved that the biological father was not Sylvester Stallone, as she had thought, but Birnbaum. In her books and in interviews, she has also discussed her numerous sexual relationships with male and female celebrities.
Janice is seen a lot shopping in Malibu and Beverly Hills walking into stores with her bull dog.
Her past lovers include Warren Beatty, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson, Liam Neeson, Sir Mick Jagger, Dolph Lundgren, Grace Jones, Kelly LeBrock, and Bruce Willis. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show in 2007, Dickinson claimed to have had sex with over 1,000 men.
Other February 15th Birthdays:
Kevin McCarthy/Actor -94
Harvey Korman/Comedian -81
Claire Bloom/Actress -77
Jane Seymour/Actress -57
Melissa Manchester/Singer -57
Michael Easton/Actor -41
Renee O’Connor/Actress -37
Sarah Wynter/Actress -35
Topics: Celebrity Birthdays, Janice Dickinson, Wired Gossip |
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