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No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel (Mass Market Paperback)

by Janice Dickinson (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: ReganBooks,U.S.; Reprint edition (4 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060566175
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060566173
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,100 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A 1970s supermodel discusses her pioneering but turbulent career, covering such topics as her interactions with fellow celebrities, experiences with top fashion contributors, and struggles with drugs and alcohol.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gloriously Fast Past, 9 Mar 2005
By Ella (London, Europe) - See all my reviews
Janice Dickinson's autobiography is a candid look at the bitchy, high-octane world of high fashion. Starting with her blue-collar upbringing in Florida, growing up with an sexually abusive father & a damaged mother, Janice's life story is certainly worthy book-material. From her unhappy childhood to her tedious beginnings in the modelling world in Manhattan, her life was an uphill struggle. Soon catching the wave of change, breaking the mould with her dark-looks and boyish figure, Janice was never going to be your typical All-American girl next door. And her story is definately more exciting than anything the girl next door could tell you anyway.

Dickinson's story moves at lightening speed, from boyfriend to boyfriend, designer to designer. Sometimes it's hard to keep track, which I suppose is perfectly apt - as this writing style mimics the very speed and pace that her career and life travelled at at that time. From the glamourous foreign locations to the heady excess of Studio 54, Janice paints a fantasty world of almost ludicrous proportions. Except that it's not a fantasy world at all - it all happened, and Janice recalls each event with glorious detail and candour. Her honesty and confidence is very refreshing, making such a nice change from the usual sychophantic memiors that fill the shelves.

My only complaint is with the last section of the book, covering the 1990s. Janice is very vague and seems to completetly rush throught these years, with major marriages and realtionships over and done with in a matter of pages. But hey, who really cares about those years anyway? We all what to read about Janice in her prime, in the 70s and 80s, when cocaine and platform shoes were practically a legal requirement.

Some may find Dickinson too much to take (she is a tad irritating at times), but I can forgive her for it, because she makes up for it with her brutal honesty and humour.

A must read

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars DO believe the hype..., 19 Jun 2005
By L. Challis "moosepup" (Lincs, UK) - See all my reviews
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...surrounding self-proclaimed "World's First Supermodel" Janice Dickinson.
As all previous evidence suggests, she IS quite the bitch. She is self-absorbed, emotionally unstable, demanding and erratic. However, she is also woman enough to admit all of the above and indeed revel in both her flaws and her perfections in equal measure.

She has certainly lead a remarkable life, escaping an abusive childhood home to light the way in the absurdly glamorous and destructive world of high fashion in the 70s and 80s. Inhabiting a precarious world of ridiculous excess, Dickinson threw herself into everything with almost frenzied dedication, resulting in a trail-blazing career in modelling, numerous high-profile train-wreck relationships and the obligatory coke'n'booze addictions.

She is, as another reviewer observed, irritating at times. But on the whole this autobiography offers a mile-a-minute ride with numerous laughs, and moments which are cringe-inducing and sometimes unexpectedly touching.

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12 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars oh the eighties..., 1 Mar 2004
janice dickinson...a drunk and drug addict who screwed stallone and played long time drug buddy to the eighties greatest sacrificial lamb gia carangi. but that's not all.
janice is an articulate mother who realises mistakes she has made but openly admits the fun she had making them in this book.
revealing and funny, this is one womans account of her life less ordinary.
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