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Informationen zum Autor Janice Dickinson is the world's first supermodel. She has appeared on the cover of every fashion magazine in the world and is the author of No Lifeguard on Duty and Everything About Me Is Fake . . . and I'm Perfect . A former judge on CW's smash hit America's Next Top Model , she lives in Beverly Hills, California, with her two children. Klappentext A rollicking memoir by one of the greatest (and most outrageous) supermodels of the 1970s. Janice Dickinson was not only the first of the supermodels, she endured a nightmarishly traumatic childhood at the hands of a sadistic, sexually and emotionally abusive father, and emerged in the early 1970s as the first lush–lipped 'exotic' brunette to break into a modelling world dominated by sunny California blondes. Janice owned the modelling world in the 1970s. Animated by a fierce desire to be recognised, a fearless spirit, and an insatiable hunger for alcohol, cocaine, sex, and fun, Dickinson appeared on every magazine cover, worked with every major designer and photographer (from Calvin Klein and Gianni Versace to Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon), was married three times, and had passionate affairs or one–night stands with everyone from Warren Beatty to Jack Nicholson to Mick Jagger. Though her career waned in the 1990s, her dramatic life story did not: in recent years she has fought a hotly contested paternity suit with Sylvester Stallone, survived a near–fatal car wreck during a tequila/marijuana blackout in St Bart's, and waged a raging battle with alcohol and drug addiction. Zusammenfassung Sex. Trauma. Abuse. Fashion. Photography. Glamour. Cash. Alcohol. Drugs. Fame. Rock Bottom. Triumph. For Janice Dickinson, life just never stops coming. “Models are supposed to be dumb, right? And, yes, there are plenty of pretty girls who are thick as posts. But most of us can actually walk and talk and snort coke at the same time. And some of us even ask ourselves Big Questions, like What the f--- does it all mean?” In more than 25 years on the catwalk, Janice Dickinson has lived out nine lives and more. In the 1970s-era of the all-American blonde-she emerged as a pioneer, the first lush-lipped, exotic brunette to make it big. When models made $150 an hour, she demanded $20,000 a day…and got it. She graced every major magazine, in photos by Avedon and Irving Penn and fashions by Versace and Calvin Klein. In Paris and Milan and Studio 54, she partied and debauched with Gia Carangi and Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger and Sylvester Stallone. She was called “the most operatic character ever to grace a fashion page”—and her fall from grace only proved it. Yet the story Janice has lived to tell is no mere diva cartoon. What she reveals in Car Wreck Woman for the first time—about her childhood, her family, her psyche, and her unlikely survival—is unforgettable. And it will make this one of the most talked-about books of the year. ...
