No Lifeguard : The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

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Summary: FUN ,FUN, FUN
Review: Gosh, Ms. Janice's Wild Ride! This book is so much fun and so compelling that I could not put it down. Janice D. is a lot of things and completely frank is one of them. She dishes all the dirt on everyone who ever wronged her. But, she dishes the most dirt on herself. This is a really fun and sometimes painful read that anyone interested in the fashion world will love. Best last line of an autobiography ever....."Vrooooom". You'll get it if you read it.

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Summary: NOT THE WORLDS FIRST SUPERMODEL!!
Review: SHE JUST DOES NOT UNDERSTAND, THAT SHE IS NOT THE WORLDS FIRST SUPERMODEL, HALF OF THE PEOPLE I KNOW NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HER... I NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HER UNTIL I SAW A T.V. SHOW ON MODELING. SHE IS NOT THE FIRST SUPERMODEL... SHE NEEDS TO REALIZE THAT... SHE HAS A SUPER-EGO, FOR SUCH A SUPER-LIE, AND SUCH A SUPER-UGLY FACE!! JANICE ... YOU WERE A MODEL, BUT YOU WERE NOT THE FIRST SUPERMODEL... YOU WERE NOT EVEN THE FIRST MODEL... GEESH... ANYONE WHO IS THAT STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT HAS A SERIOUS ISSUE, AND HAS NOT DONE ENOUGH RESEARCH, TO RECOGNIZE THAT AS A TRUE FACT... SHE WANTS PEOPLE TO SEE HER AS SOMETHING SHE WISH SHE WAS... OH WELL... SOMETIMES LIVING IN A FANTASY IS THE ONLY WAY TO SELF-SATISFACTION!!... OR NOT!! THIS BOOK DOES NOT EVEN DESERVE A RATING!!

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Summary: Crazy/Beautiful !
Review: This book is so entertaining I read it in a weekend. This girl is brutally honest, fabulously entertaining and highly intelligent. I was so impressed with her I created a site in honor of her. visit http://v64.com to see pictures of her throught her career.

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Summary: Very fun book!
Review: I'd never heard of Janice before, but I enjoyed her book. She's quite honest in writing about herself and her life. She had quite a crazy upbringing, a wild ride as a supermodel, and some sad relationship breakups. She tells all.

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Summary: The World's First What?
Review: With a second book coming out called "Everything About Me Is Fake, etc...", I think I may just need a refresher on the true stat of Ms. Dickenson in the modeling industry. Not the first supermodel and certainly not the most interesting. I believe it was the mighty Lauren Hutton and Karen Graham who hold the title of the first and greatest. Even Twiggy and Jean "the Shrimp" Shrimpton, Veruska- so many others who left their mark on the history of the business. As a fashion editor for twenty five years now, I can guarantee that Ms. Dickenson was far from "super"- more like "super not dependable". This book was fun if you are into fiction but if you really want the truth, I suggest reading "Model" by Michael Gross.

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Summary: Maybe the world's first trashy model-but NO WAY super!
Review: This book is a super waste of time and money. Some intelligent reviewers have already said it all. The reviewer "globetrotter" on August 29, 2002 wrote the best review of all. There's not much I can add to it except that I have seen Ms. Dickinson on several talk shows prior to her book and after its publication. She comes across as low class, abrasive, and disrespectful, and does nothing to deserve our sympathy. It was sickening how many times (in her book) she claims to have coined the word "supermodel" and claims to have been the world's first! Don't waste your money on this one. It deserves zero stars.

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Summary: Janice, ya gotta love her
Review: I bought this book for two reasons...1. I needed something to read while I waited to pick my kids up from school and 2. Because I remember Janice Dickinson on the covers of magazines when I was a teenager. I didn't expect much just something to pass the time. However, it was quite engaging and while some might have wanted dirt on other celebrites, Janice remained a class act just telling HER story and no one elses. I found myself just wanting to give her a hug (I'm a woman and a mother) you couldn't help but wanting to do that after reading what she endured in her youth. But Janice is a fighter and the kind of girl you could hangout with and have a few laughs. She's honest and her honesty is what makes her likable. You can't help but root for a happy ending for this woman!

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Summary: Vanity is not a virtue
Review: The book was interesting, no doubt. It was hard to put it down....but, I found it quite annoying how Janice constantly put herself on a pedestel. There is nothing more annoying than someone who thinks that they are above everyone else. Yes, she was beautiful and she worked hard, but if she really wanted to make a legend of herself, she would at least PRETEND to be more humble. At many times, I felt the book was b.s. and completely fabricated. I read this book after reading the biography of "Gia," and definitely have more respect for Janice based on that. I still think she is an icon and respect her for trying to be the best mother she can be. Maybe she should have more of her peers edit her writings before they get published????? You're a mommy now!
Regardless, she's made her mark in American history!!!

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Summary: Janice, PLEASE record this asap as an audio book!
Review: Hearing Janice in her own voice tell her life story as an audio book would be worth big bucks to me! She writes with such humor, irony, and insouciant honesty about her hedonistic life, that listening to her for hours would be beyond thrilling! Putting this book down after the last page was like the end of a passionate love affair -- hard to move on.

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Summary: Leave This Book Where It Is At
Review: I picked up this book thinking that it was going to be a tell-all book filled with celebrity gossip. This book is more about Janice's life in the modeling world. If you are interested in modeling, then you might enjoy this book, otherwise the many modeling world details will bore you. She comes from a horrible family life. As for Janice herself, in the book she portrays herself as someone who sleeps around for no good reason, not love, not money, just useless loose sexual relations. She does dish limited info on her few affairs with well known celebs, but she doesn't give any real juicy details. She seems rather self-important and by no means would I ever consider her the world's first supermodel. Naomi, Cindy, Elle, and Tyra, are supermodels. Janice is someone that wrote a book to be remembered.