About book Everything About Me Is Fake... And I'm Perfect (2006)
When Janice Dickinson left America's Next Top Model, the show started to fucking suck. She was the best part.There is no longer anyone to call the model's fat cows or hump Tyra. *sigh*I came across this book a few days ago and thought "This will be a fun, light read."Just judging from the title alone, one would assume this book is about how to be shallow and fabulous, right?It was so much more than that.Janice is so smart and so funny and so interesting that it is upsetting that she was the "world's first super model".Come on now, that is just not fair. I thought the beautiful ones were suppose to be stupid, so people like me can feel more superior! Dang it!And god, is she beautiful. And there are plenty of pictures to oggle at along the way. Even a nice nudie pic. *wink*I love this book because she gives really awesome advice about the normal girl subjects- boys (be mean to them & ignore them, they like that apparently), weight issues(get off your fat ass and move) and boobies (her's are fabulous, she mentions many times). And she never comes across as condescending.Just funny and honest.Sure, she name drops all her celebrity friends and lovers and reminds you that she was the "world's first super model" every other page. But she tells it like it is,doesn't bullshit on any topic. She's crude, crazy, rude, loud (yes, I could hear her even through the pages of the book) and raunchy.She made me want to be her best friend. She is, as they say, a girl's girl.She seems like one of the good ones because she has such a big heart (and boobs).I know this is a really lame and ass-kissing review.But that's just how it goes sometimes.
Janice Dickinson tells it like it is. What I like about this book is that she admits to having plastic surgery b/c even she knows that she doesn't really look like her model pictures in real life. It's all airbrushing. (Why even use real models these days, anyway?) I don't agree with Dickinson's bashing of plus-size models. Why can't those girls get some love too? Shouldn't that be a healthier direction for society than saying "Look at this image that you'll never be able to attain and yet you'll spend thousands of dollars a year trying and feeling bad about yourself"??? I think so. When I read Dickinson's books, I can't help but find a disconnect between her author persona and the persona she reflects on TV and in magazines. She seems a bit nicer and more welcoming in the book, but on America's Next Top Model, and even moreso after she left the show, she always seemed so harsh and mean and just plain wild and crazy. It surprised me to read that she was a recovered alcoholic b/c it seems like whenever I see her on TV nowadays, she's flashing the cooch or running around clubs and I can't help but wonder what's going on. I'm sure she's fine and that her real personality is wild and crazy (can't even imagine what she was like on coke and drugs back in the day). If I met her, I'm sure she'd tell me to lose some weight and get a nose job and I'd still say, "Wow, thank you Janice!"
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I picked out this book in order to psychoanalyze a public figure for a high school psychology assignment. This is definitely not a book I would have picked out for my own reading. However, I enjoyed this read mainly because it was so different. It was all about the hardships of modeling, and Janice overcoming her childhood insecurities. Janice tells the stories so bluntly that they slap you in the face. Really, that's how Janice talks to everyone. She is a very strong figure and she can be rather inspiring. If you are to read this, I recommend you take her humor lightly (because it will be rather crude). Also, she talks about her eating problems as if they were no big deal. Some of the times I felt like she was promoting them, but other times she got her point across that she has to eat like she does because she is obsessed with her image and it is fricken hard to be a model.
—Savanna
This book wasn't nearly as good as her first. It continues the semi-autobiographical theme by telling us stories that presumably weren't good enough to make it into the first book, although some are still pretty funny. She also gives random bits of advice, some of which are good and some of which are ridiculous, like the relationship and dating advice.Another big issue here is Janice is promoting a pretty good message that what you see in the media is all airbrushed and its a level of perfection even a supermodel can't aspire to. But it still seems like Janice hasn't fully understood this herself yet. She has a really anorexic mindset and it kind of spoils that message of the book. When it comes to weight her message seems to be "its okay to not be perfect, as long as your a size zero model who is slightly bloated because you're on your period", otherwise you're just fat. She worries about what her daughter is going to pick up from the media, yet she still hasn't seemed to realize that she's still totally believing that toxic message herself, something which will probably effect her daughter a whole lot more. That kind of hypocrisy gets frustrating in a book which is about being perfect even in your imperfection.To be honest it seems like Janice got a deal to write more books and so she basically had to throw together whatever she could think of to fill up the pages. If you're a big fan of Janice Dickinson then you probably will enjoy this book anyway, but if not you might just want to try her first one, No Life Guard on Duty, as its got a lot more consistency, depth and likeability.
—Kirsty Shark
