Janice (Doreen) Dickinson was born on February 17, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. She became one of the first "dark featured" beauties to make it big as a model. She helped to push the industry standards to vary it criteria on beauty. Today, Janice boldly claims to be the world's first supermodel. Though she was not in reality the first of the supermodels, she is one of the most memorable.

Janice is a former supermodel of the 1980s. She is of Polish and Belarusian descent. This gave her a certain exotic look and blessed her with a bankable beauty. By the age of 14, she already measured at 5'10.

Janice launched her career in the 1970s when the scene was dominated the All-American, blond hair and blue eyes look championed by Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley. When Janice went to Ford Models, which incidentally represented Brinkley, Eileen Ford told her that she would never work because she was too "ethnic". But this was a time of constant breakthroughs. ...

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