By the time Janice Dickinson was 19, she had moved to New York City to pursue a modeling career full-time. Featured in the pages and on the covers of every major fashion magazine from Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, and to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Playboy, she also walked the runways in Milan, Paris, and New York, wearing the clothes of Versace, Armani, Calvin Klein and many others.

In spring 2003, Dickinson began a long run on the highly rated UPN drama-reality series "America's Next Top Model." Hosted by Tyra Banks, Dickinson became one of the show's breakout personalities as she served on the expert judging panel searching for the nation's next supermodel.

In 2002, Dickinson's first book "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel" (Regan Books) candidly revealed the inside story to her meteoric rise to the top of the modeling world -- as well as her painful and bumpy slide to the bottom, and the shocking, reckless, steamy, funny and outrageous moments. "Everything About Me Is Fake.And I'm Perfect" (Regan Books), her second book, is based on her opinions on beauty, plastic surgery and the way American society perceives it. Sales for her first two books were so strong that a third title -- "Check Please! Dating, Mating & Extricating" (Regan Books) was released in June 2006.

Always in demand and ever expanding, Dickinson was approached to star in her own show. Through "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency," the Oxygen Network's most-watched docudrama, she has also fulfilled a lifelong dream to open her own agency representing ethnically diverse, cutting-edge talent while demonstrating her ability to balance life as a businesswoman, mentor, and mother.

Dickinson currently resides in Los Angeles.