Janice Dickinson, an American model, TV personality, and entrepreneur, is widely recognized as the 70s and 80s supermodel. With a lengthy career in the entertainment industry, Janice has established herself as a prominent figure.
Janice founded The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency in 2005 and has also served as a judge on the popular reality show America’s Next Top Model.
Janice Dickinson Bio Summary
Full name: Janice Dickinson
Date of birth: February 16, 1955
Age: 69 years old (2024)
Gender: Female
Zodiac sign: Aquarius
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York
Marital status: Married
Husband’s name: Robert Gerner (m. 2016)
Father’s name: Ray Dickinson
Mother’s name: Jennie Marie
Nationality: American
Height: 5 ft 7 in
Weight: 60 kg
Eye color: Black
Hair color: Brown
Childhood
Jennie Marie and Samuel Ray Dickinson welcomed their second daughter, Janice Dickinson, on February 16, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York. While her mother had Polish roots, her father was of Irish descent.
She was raised in Hollywood, Florida, with her older sister, Alexis, who later became a real estate agent, and her younger sister, Debbie, who also pursued a career in modeling.
During her childhood and teenage years, she faced a difficult upbringing due to her father’s physical and emotional mistreatment. Her father also used to sexually abuse one of her sisters.
She has also revealed publicly that her father forcefully had sex with her. Moreover, he used to verbally and physically abuse her and told her that she looked like a boy.
Career
In her twenties, Janice Dickinson journeyed to New York to establish herself in the modeling world. Despite facing rejection from multiple agencies at first, she was eventually given an opportunity by a fashion photographer. This ultimately led to her first agent, Wilhelmina Cooper.
Janice’s beauty and charisma garnered her widespread recognition throughout Europe. In the 1980s, she reached the pinnacle of her modeling career, gracing the covers of esteemed magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Playboy.
Janice takes great pride in being featured on the cover of Vogue magazine 37 times and Elle Magazine 11 times. She has even been called the “original supermodel” by Dickinson. However, this claim has been challenged multiple times as numerous supermodels came before Janice’s career started.
Aside from her successful modeling career, Janice Dickinson has also made a mark in reality television. She served as the host of America’s Next Top Model and was selected to be part of the fifth season of The Surreal Life. Janice also joined the 16th season of Celebrity Big Brother as a housemate in 2015, after first appearing on the show in season 24.
Personal Life
Janice Dickinson has been married four times. Her first marriage was to Ron Levy. After divorcing him, she then married Simon Fields. Later, she married Alan Gersten and then remarried her current husband, Dr. Robert Gerner, for a total of two more times. Robert Gerner, also known as Rocky Gerner, is a psychiatrist.
In 2012, Janice asked Robert to marry her, and they tied the knot in 2016. Nathan and Savannah Dickinson are the two children of Dickinson. It was previously believed that Sylvester Stallone was the father of Savannah, but DNA testing proved otherwise.
Net Worth
Janice Dickinson is a multi-faceted individual who has pursued various endeavors throughout her career, all of which have contributed to her overall financial success. In addition to her roles as a model, actress, and TV personality, Dickinson is also an accomplished author.
Her published works include No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Model (2002), Everything About Me Is Fake…And I’m Perfect (2004), and Please Check! Encounters, matings, and extinctions (2006). At present, her net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.
