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 enlarge | Author: Janice Dickinson
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 58078
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0060566175
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92092
EAN: 9780060566173
ASIN: 0060566175
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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Enjoyed it June 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this book was v interesting & honest...a true look into Janice's Dickinsons life. She is a strong character & has survived a hell of a childhood - now i now why she still acts kinda crazy when you see her on tv!
 Great book June 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This woman has balls. It is not a book written by someone who is afraid of looking bad, or offending people (I am looking at YOU Kimora Lee Simmons). Janice is one fierce b*tch. I must say she did start to get on my nerves after viewing her reality show, but if you are looking for a juicy book, get this one. You will be satisfied!
 no lifeguard on duty May 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is interesting when it talks about her life with family and friends but the rest of it is slow and boring i thought this was going to be great like her other book but its very boring and hard to keep reading,
Janice Dickinson's No Lifeguard on Duty: Memoir of a Supermodel April 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The memoir, No Lifeguard On Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, by Janice Dickinson, is a touching and thoughtful read.
In the beginning, Janice tells her readers about life growing up in Hollywood, FL and what it was like living under a father who was sexually and mentally abusive to her and her older sister Alexis. Janice's mother went to work every day as she was a nurse, and would come home obviously on drugs that kept her oblivious and numb to everything that was going on with the two eldest daughters.
Without her mother's support, Janice's oldest sister not wanting to talk about what their father was doing to her, and their youngest sister, Debbie, not having a clue their father was anything but ideal, Janice fought most of her life trying to deal with her father even after she moved out of the house and began modeling. Her father treated Janice very poorly for ever refusing him certain pleasures and told her she would, "...never amount to anything".
That one line, stuck with Janice and was enough to define and destroy most of the relationships, including a few marriages, she had had. Janice didn't fall for the nice guy that treated her well. Something always seemed missing for her in those kinds of relationships. Instead she chose the guys that treated her like her father would in hopes of some way being able to fix the situation. She went from one guy to the next wondering what was wrong with her and why she couldn't keep a man. Didn't they love her?
Throughout the book, Janice takes the reader inside her life's struggles and her fight to free herself from her painful childhood and the destructive path she was on.
No Lifeguard On Duty is an inspiring read that shows no matter how grim life may be, you have the power to change it for the better.
Courageous memoir and fascinating life March 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this book. Janice Dickinson has lived a full, gutsy and sometimes tragic life on her own terms. Experiences that would have ruined others seemed to make her stronger. I think the fire raging inside of her helped her to survive her horrible abusive father but it also fueled her drug and alcohol consumption. Nothing small or underdone in this life. And the one thing that saves her is that as much as she is ambitious and bitter from people using or abusing her is the light inside her... the love that managed to survive... a love that blossomed with the birth of her children. This is a no holds barred book by a super-sized personality. Janice Dickinson is not just a supermodel. She is a very real human being with a big heart and an importnt story and message.
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