Check out the photo above. That’s the worlds first (self-declared) supermodel Janice Dickinson, 58, in 2004, just eight years ago on the left. A lot can happen in that time but note how gorgeous she was. She had already been toxing and tweaking at that point but she hadn’t had a facelift, she hadn’t had lip injections (which she denies, but come on she has novelty lips) and she had some natural lines around her eyes. She was so pretty at 50 years old. A year later, in 2005, she was on The Surreal Life looking like a different, plastic person. I know because I watched that first season and I remember how unnatural she looked. It’s only gotten worse, but somehow Janice thinks she looks the same and is insisting that those lips are all hers. I guess that explains how this happened. She’s got an unhealthy dose of delusion going on. Oh and that extends to her finances. She declared bankruptcy, but its not her fault, it’s due to the banks and the plastic surgeons who didn’t comp their services. In Touch has a new interview with her and it’s kind of funny/sad.

What was the first plastic surgery you ever had?
I had my boobs done when I was 32. Back in the Jurassic era!

What have you had done since?
Why is this all people care about? I had a tummy tuck and face-lift – and so has every other woman in Hollywood! Sue me.

What about Botox and fillers?
I do Botox and Restylane. I don’t get anything in my cheeks, though. I have perfect bone structure. And my lips are mine.

Fair enough! How much do you think you’ve spent on surgery to date?
I don’t remember – all my ex husbands paid for them!

Do you ever feel you’ve gone too far?
I don’t think my appearance has changed. I just think my face has matured. Do Halle or Julia or Meryl still look the same? No!

How will you afford it now that you’ve declared bankruptcy?
I haven’t the slightest idea.

What happened? How did you lose all your money?
I, like many Americans, went bankrupt because of the economy – the banks! And because press-whore doctors offered to give me Botox and fix my teeth for free and then slapped with me with bills.

[From In Touch, print edition]

Oh no she did not compare herself to Meryl Streep! On one hand she says her ex-husbands paid for all her plastic surgery, but then she turns around and claims that she’s broke because of the bills. Seriously, how much can new teeth and Botox cost? It can’t be more than six figures, and she was thought to be worth $14 million over her career. Somehow all that is gone? I can’t imagine how that happens, or how people end up getting so much work done and thinking they look the same. But good for her for keeping a healthy attitude about it, as out of touch as it may sound. She definitely doesn’t have self esteem issues.

Oh and Janice is engaged and claims that she’s going to have a wedding “on a big TV network, but it’s a secret so I can’t talk about it.” I think that statement has just as much veracity as everything else she’s said in this interview.

Photo credit: WENN.com, PRPhotos and FameFlynet

These are the most recent photos we have of Janice Dickinson, they’re from December 14 and she’s not wearing an engagement ring. (You can see the engagement ring photos here.) Those of you who are seasoned gossip-watchers know who Janice Dickinson is. She’s a 57 year-old insufferable famewhore who calls herself “the world’s first supermodel” and has gone way overboard with the plastic surgery. She mugs for the paps every chance she gets and regularly stages bikini photo ops and makeout sessions with young guys. In fact it was just three months ago that she made out with Lindsay Lohan’s costar in The Canyons, a p0rn star named James Deen, in front of the paparazzi. (Those photos are here.) I thought Janice liked younger guys (Deen is allegedly 26) but I guess when it comes to marrying them she goes for money instead of youth. She’s engaged to a guy 10 years older than she is, a doctor, and brags that she’s going to have a wedding that will put Brad and Angelina’s nuptials to shame. Here’s what she said about her plans. This will be her fourth marriage.

Janice Dickinson is engaged to Dr. Robert Gerner, and she’s already planning a big wedding.

“I intend to make Rocky the happiest man in the world for the rest of his life,” Dickinson, 57, tells Us Weekly of her fiance (nickname Rocky). “I couldn’t be happier right now. Oh! And our wedding is going to make Brad and Angelina’s look like a trip to city hall!”

The former America’s Next Top Model judge has been dating Gerner, a prominent psychopharmacology expert, for about 3 months, a source tells Us. The couple, who met through Gerner’s real estate agent son, recently bought a home together and celebrated with a housewarming and engagement party on Saturday, Dec. 15.

“It was love at first sight!” Dickinson told Us. Gerner proposed to the model during a car trip to LAX before she dropped him off to attend a conference, a source tells Us. The two went shopping later for a ring together, and Dickinson proudly showed it off at their party Saturday.

“My children, Nathan and Savvy, are over the moon and so happy their mother is so in love,” the newly-engaged star, who has been married three times before, said.

“I had a great time last night and all my friends did too,” Gerner told Us. “We complete each other — our personalities really compliment each other.”

[From US Weekly]

She called her daughter Savvy? That’s bizarre. Doesn’t it sound like she’s counting on this guy to croak soon? She said “I intend to make Rocky the happiest man in the world for the rest of his life.” Who talks like that except women hoping to outlive their husbands and inherit their money? She’s been with this guy a whole three months and she’s already committed to sticking it out for the sake of his estate. I’m just surprised he’s not a plastic surgeon. The Daily Mail has photos of the happy couple and another one is below. Janice’s fiance is the guy off to the right of the photo where she’s posing with Jimmy Fallon. You can’t tell here, but they really look alike.

Photo credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet

Janice Dickinson is 56 years old. Compare these photos with that post that I did the other day on 53-year-old Sharon Stone. Any reasonable person would expect a pair of 50-something to look roughly (emphasis on “ROUGH”) the same, age-wise. But while Sharon Stone either seems to be aging naturally or she’s only gotten a few modest things done, Janice Dickinson is balls-out gross-looking in these new photos from last night. What’s strange to me is that I really think Janice goes in and consults doctors to maintain this sketchy look. I feel like the Botox is building up in Janice’s face. I feel like it’s trying to leak out of her eyes, out of her pores.

By the way, Janice has hopped on the Amy Winehouse bandwagon. Janice gave a recent interview where she claimed that she had befriended Amy shortly before her death: “She was desperate and her life had become suddenly unmanageable and she wanted to see if I could help her.” By the way, THAT is how you know Winehouse was in trouble – she was reaching out to JANICE.

So of course Dr. Drew had to insert himself into the situation too. He claims, “Believe it or not she was trying to contact me which was weird. Janice Dickinson told me that. I remember getting calls from Europe and thinking, ‘What the hell is this?’ Janice Dickinson, several times on my HLN program, claimed that she gave Amy my number, and that she was reaching out.” For God’s sake. Well, Janice and Dr. Drew, it’s your word against a dead girl’s, so I guess you bitches win.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

These photos were one of the first things I saw this morning. Every photo agency has photos of Janice Dickinson in a bikini today, so I just clicked to see how bad it was. To my surprise, I didn’t wince once. Janice Dickinson has a better bikini body that Kelly Bensimon, in my opinion. Sure, there’s some Iggy Pop happening (as there was with Kelly Bensimon too), but overall, I think Janice looks pretty good for her age – bitch is 56. We should all hope to be flaunting it when we’re that age, I think.

My biggest problem? Janice’s face, not her figure. That face is not the result of aging – that face is the result of too much tweaking, stretching, pulling, injecting, filling, cutting, lasering, and more. My second biggest problem? Why don’t SOME women realize that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a one-piece swimsuit? Why is there this obsession with trying to pull off a bikini at any age, at any size? Sometimes a lady’s figure and yes, HER AGE, means that a one-piece is more flattering, more appropriate, and just better overall.

Of course, I’m not going to show you Janice from behind. It’s too… much. But if you’d like to see, go here. *shudder*

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Nightline had a “Celebrity Plastic Surgery” segment on Tuesday, followed by a ABC Primetime “Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Too Far” special on Wednesday. (You can watch the Nightline episode online if you’re in the US. That part starts at 8:30. Most of the segments from the “Celebrity Plastic Surgery” special are here, or you can watch it in several parts online.) Nightline spoke with a celebrity plastic surgeon named Dr. Garth Fisher who has been on Extreme Makeover, used to be married to Brooke Burke, and has fixed botched plastic surgery for Lisa Rinna and Bruce Jenner. They focused on celebrities who have admitted to the work they’ve had done, and even though we’re aware of these people it was still pretty shocking.

Dr. Fischer estimates that around 70% of celebrities have had plastic surgery. Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison, Kourtney Kardashian, Jenna Jameson and Jordan are among the women whose breasts Dr. Fisher has done. He has a “teardrop” technique that supposedly makes cleavage look more natural. He also fixes a lot of overaggressive and unnatural looking surgery from other doctors, and advises clients against getting unnecessary surgery. Of Heidi Montag’s work, he said “she looked great before the surgery… if she came into my office I probably wouldn’t have offered those things to her. We turn down… probably 40% of the people who walk into here. You really have to be the good doctor and protect them no matter who they are.”

Then they had that interview with Heidi Montag you’ve probably heard about, where she mildly trash talked her now-deceased surgeon, Dr. Frank Ryan, and said “I definitely think I should have been way more informed. I think that doctors should really walk you through all aspects of it, not just the glamorous side of it… Doctors, it’s like they’re selling you cookies or something… if I could take it back I would.” Radar has more on Heidi’s segment on the Celebrity Plastic Surgery Special if you’re interested.

There was some coverage of Lisa Rinna’s lip re-do, which was shown on her TV Land Reality show, Lisa loves Harry, then we got to see Pete Burns. If you’re not familiar with this guy, he’s the British former lead singer for the band Dead or Alive (they had that big hit “You Spin Me Round” in 1985) and has been on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. Burns’ face is so outrageously distorted that he looks like a marionette. He’s had “dozens” of injections and procedures, including a botched nose job, silicone lip implants that got infected, steroids, filler and tissue reconstruction. He described some truly disgusting complications from his surgery. (Warning on this description, it turned my stomach.) There are also some quotes from Pete below that were shown on the Celebrity Plastic Surgery special. Pete may look completely unnatural to us, but he seems to either like it or not notice. He continues to get a ton done, and said that he has his surgeon on speed dial.

On why his botched nose job didn’t stop him
Sometimes you’re just unlucky and it was fixed. If it goes wrong and you can fix it, I don’t see why it’s any big drama.

On why he continues to get plastic surgery & injections
I see it as an artform. I see myself as my own clay, and I was remodeling it.

On when the silicone in his lips got infected
I developed rashes around the mouth, then I developed lumps. [The plastic surgeon] just kept injecting me [with steroids]
My lip was at least 18 inches away from my face, the lower lip… When you wake up and your adam’s apple has come out… further than your jaw and one side of your face is so swollen you can’t open your eye and there’s yellow discharge, not just leaking squirting with a hiss it would squirt from my face. It was like one of the worse science fiction or horror movies you could ever see.

I went as far as LA and NY to see specialists and all they could recommend was amputation…

Narrator: eventually [Pete's] lips were saved by an Italian surgeon who specializes in rebuilding faces eaten away by cancer. Burns endured two years of intensive treatment.

On fixing the botched lip implants
It was removing what amounted to pints of fluid that my body produced trying to fight this substance that was in me. I had 11 kidney stones, near liver failure, thrombosis, nearly lost sight in one eye, I couldn’t eat food.. so for two years like that.

Burns received a $700,000 settlement from the doctor who gave him those lip implants and kept injecting him with steroids instead of properly treating him. He was unable to tour or promote his greatest hits album and admits that he was suicidal at the time.

I was just talking to a friend today about this. She used to work at a plastic surgeon’s office and told me that the main concern that people have is that they will look very fake or will suffer terrible consequences. As for how painful various procedures are, she said that it varies by the person like anything else. Some people don’t think it’s a big deal afterwards while others (like Heidi Montag) think the pain is awful.

We always hear these horror stories of plastic surgery gone wrong, and we see people like Pete Burns and this poor model (video below) who look plastic and pulled afterwards. We don’t know about good plastic surgery, though, because when people have minor procedures and don’t go overboard you often can’t tell. I know that I would love to look as refreshed and natural as say, Sandra Bullock or Meryl Streep. Don’t hate on me for saying either of those women had something done, I think they did and that it’s very subtle, but maybe that’s how gorgeous you look when you take care of yourself and don’t mess with nature.

Heidi Montag blames her doctor

Janice Dickinson loves her look

Model trying to fix her plastic surgery mistakes

Maybe I’m the kind of bitch who will use any excuse to post photos of Janice Dickinson. Her face is… tragic. And it’s not just the bad, cheap plastic surgery – she just looks like a woman who doesn’t take care of herself. Plus, her attitude is horrible. Perhaps she has what Lainey at LaineyGossip describes as KarmaFace. Anyway, Janice has just given an interview to Life & Style about her hatred for Lady Gaga. Janice’s reasoning? Lady Gaga talked about doing cocaine occasionally, and Janice is important enough to pontificate about this subject (that was discussed a month ago):

After Lady Gaga admitted to being an “occasional” drug user in the September issue of Vanity Fair, it wasn’t long before other stars began speaking out against the pop star.

Janice Dickinson, who is currently taping Celebrity Rehab, exclusively tells Life & Style: “Lady Gaga is a f—ing idiot.” The former model goes on to condemn Gaga’s actions, saying, “The way she mentioned cocaine, I think she should really get spanked!”

Moreover, Janice is shocked that Lady Gaga would make such comments when she has such a young fan base. “You can damage and hurt kids,” Janice says. “I’m appalled.”

And it’s not just Gaga’s drug habits that Janice doesn’t like: she’s not a fan of her music either! “Her music is like elevator music, as far as I’m concerned,” Janice tells Life & Style. “All the gays are looking for something new. She’s history!”

[From Life & Style]

Like elevator music? I think Janice has an elevator face, and I’m not even sure what that means. Okay, about the actual argument Janice is making (having just completed Celebrity Rehab): celebrities should never admit to doing drugs because those admissions can “damage and hurt kids”? I think Gaga’s story about her pre-fame downward spiral and subsequent drug-free existence works as a pretty decent anti-drug message, actually. And wasn’t Janice one of the biggest cokeheads in the 1980s? And isn’t she still battling addictions? I guess that doesn’t count because she doesn’t have a young fanbase? Or any fanbase, really.

Call me crazy, but I’ve never really taken a side on the whole Tyra Banks-Janice Dickinson feud. I think Janice is crazy (like a fox) and mean as a snake. Meanwhile, I think Tyra is crazy too, although in a very different way from Janice. Tyra is, like, Oprah-crazy. Like, Tyra thinks she’s some television goddess, just like Oprah. Tyra thinks she needs to educate us on everything, even though Tyra’s not the brightest bulb either. Still, Tyra is pretty smart businesswoman who has a flourishing career, and Janice is still some crazy has-been.

One thing Janice is smart about is still getting press. She knows just what to say to get the most press hits. This time, Janice told a radio interviewer that she (not Tyra) made America’s Next Top Model a hit, and that Tyra is “huge” in person. So “huge” in fact that Janice claims she “used to think she was a man, I kept looking for… I was always looking, thinking, ‘Something isn’t right here’.”

There must be some pretty big beef between former supermodels Janice Dickinson and Tyra Banks, if Janice’s latest outburst is anything to go by.

The motor-mouthed model-turned-TV personality doesn’t appear to have got over being axed from the America’s Next Top Model judging panel in 2005.

Speaking on Alan Carr’s Chatty Man, the catty woman said: “I made that show a hit. Can you imagine for five seasons just sitting next to Miss Tyra Banks and listening to her go off?

“You could land a helicopter on her forehead. It’s huge.”

Janice admitted she got the boot from the show after calling Tyra “fat”.

She continued: “She was huge! [Her legs] are huge. Well, she’s a big woman.

“I used to think she was a man, I kept looking for… I was always looking, thinking, ‘Something isn’t right here’.”

Meow!

[From AOL UK News]

Ugh. That’s kind of over-the-top bitchy even for me. It’s one thing to say “Tyra isn’t all that” or “I don’t like her face” but damn, bitch. You don’t have to be all “I think she’s hidin’ a little something in her drawers.” Of course, I do that with Lady Gaga, but Gaga did that to herself when she flashed us that time and we didn’t know what we were looking at! I feel confident saying that I believe Tyra has a vadge. I just don’t want to see it, and I don’t want the vadge authenticated in public in any way.

Janice Dickinson had to be rushed from the jungle set of “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” after suffering from a viral infection. It turns out that seventy years of living off carrots and heroin will leave you with a sorta weak immune system. Okay that’s not fair, I don’t know that to be true. Viral infections can be harsh on anyone, I have no reason to believe all the vegetables and drugs made it any worse for Janice Dickinson. But that’s still my completely unproven, B.S. theory.

Janice Dickinson was rushed away from the Costa Rican set of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! with a medical emergency, a production source tells Usmagazine.com.

“She is not in the hospital,” the source says. “It’s fair to say she was taken by ambulance this weekend from camp to an on-site medical facility for treatment for an undisclosed condition.”

The former model has complained of hunger and bronchitis on the NBC show.

Details will be revealed on tonight’s episode.

“Her fate is decided tonight,” another source tells Us. “Either she quits, or she might be too sick to go on, or she’s taken off — or she may go back to camp.”

[From Us Weekly]

From the little snippet of the incident on Radar’s site, it seems like everything ends up okay for Janice. She’s shown at the end waving people off and saying something about how she’s fine. They also mention the viral infection, though don’t specify what it is or how she got it. I could make a lot of offensive jokes about the possibilities, but it looks like Janice was in legitimate pain so I’m going to contain the snark for a few minutes. She also strikes me as a tough old bird. If I had to place my money on anyone, it’d be her. I mean she managed to deal with years of acrimony with Sylvester Stallone AND Tyra Banks. That woman’s a fighter.

Here’s Janice Dickinson grabbing lunch from Judi’s Deli in Beverly Hills on May 22. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Though Tyra Banks loves to hear herself talk about empowering women, togetherness, unity, and a bunch of other over-used, trite phrases, she seems to have a really hard time putting her money where her mouth is. Literally. Last week she fired “America’s Next Top Model” judge Paulina Porikova, who had been a fan favorite. Actually, it seems like nearly all of the judges are “fan favorites” compared to Tyra.

Janice Dickinson says Tyra has a habit of promising judges tons of money, but then when it comes time to pay up she fires them instead.

Add ex-America’s Next Top Model judge Janice Dickinson to this week’s rant over Paulina Porizkova’s exit.

Dickinson, surprisingly booted from the show several years ago, says she is none too surprised about Porizkova being escorted away from the very seat she occupied.

“That’s how Tyra rolls,” Dickinson shared with MTV news at the American Idol finale Wednesday.

“Tyra rolls like that, she likes to fire people just about when she’s promising them large amounts of money, they get the axe, like I did…. then she takes the money and runs.”

[From Examiner.com]

Tyra has a hard time keeping women judges on the show. But not judges in general – the guys have been there for ages. Tyra’s really only got a problem dealing with other women, which makes it clear just what garbage all of her “empowerment” crap really is.

While we all love Tyra Banks for her efforts in helping to bridge the gap for women of color, plus size models and recently transgendered models, the daytime and reality diva has raised eyebrows with what I like to call Janice’s rotating chair.

It is no secret that Janice was the “Simon” (if you will, American Idol) of “America’s Next Top Model”. She told the models exactly what she thought, no holds barred, unapologetic and often times sliced deep into their self esteem. But we loved Janice for that. She was real and let’s just be honest… it sold.

It seems that every couple seasons the “Janice Chair” swings around and dumps its latest occupant. First it was Twiggy, now it’s Paulina Porizkova.

Yes, there might have been budget cuts (as noted in Tyra and Kevin Mok’s statement earlier this week) but “noted photographer” Nigel Barker retains a spot every season as does Ms. Jay, Mr. Jay and occasionally Nole Marin. Therefore, it’s easy to think that there’s something to Janice’s chair….the chair that is more often than not reserved for the former supermodel chick with attitude.

[From Examiner.com]

I find Tyra so insufferable as a person – and on her talk show – that I can’t even watch “America’s Next Top Model.” Which is too bad, as it’s one of the few reality shows I find semi-interesting. And she doesn’t even bug me that much on ANTM, but just knowing what a horrible person she actually is makes it impossible to enjoy it. Even though she does a slightly better job of hiding it on this particular show than on her talk show. Tyra clearly has a problem sharing the attention with other women. She knows how to talk a good game and say what you want to hear: whether it’s her female audience or her female judges. But when it comes to actually following through, Tyra takes the money and tells female empowerment to shove it.

Here’s Janice Dickinson grabbing lunch from Judi’s Deli in Beverly Hills on May 22. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Oh, Janice. You crazy attention-loving ex-supermodel. Her reality show on Oxygen, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (what, you thought she would have a show without her name in the title?) is starting up a new season soon, so she needed to get her name out in the press again. She’s guest-judging on Groomer Has It (I’m serious – I saw the ads for the episode last night), but that wasn’t enough, so she decided to go crazy on the papparazzi last night outside Nobu sushi.

Janice first unappropriately [sic] pulled up her skirt while posing for photographers. Next Janice ripped to shreds a photo that a fan asked her to autograph. During this time a videographer asked Janice a question to which Janice became upset and chased the videographer down the street, striking him with her white scarf. Security at the restaurant tried to hold back Janice from charging at the man. Finally, while leaving in her vehicle, Janice flipped the middle finger to shocked fans.
Classy.

[from buzzphoto]

Janice has never been the worlds’ classiest broad, but it’s fun to watch her desperation grow as her celebrity fades. Just a week ago, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt made a big to-do (in front of the paps, of course) about getting her number outside a gas station. We’re talking high-class here.

As for her strange behavior outside of Nobu, Janice is an admitted alcoholic and it’s not unreasonable to think that she may have had a little too much to drink. Or maybe it was simply a desperate attempt at attention.

Images thanks to Fame Pictures .