Dickinson is famous because of her childhood trauma

Janice Dickinson has reveled that in her childhood her father never believed in her. Because of it Janice was determined to to succeed.

According to Wenn  the former supermodel channeled the inner turmoil caused by her dysfunctional upbringing into her modeling. But she still struggled with bulimia, alcoholism and an addiction to cocaine despite her success.

Dickinson says, “I was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. The secrets of the abuse almost killed me. I kept the secret of incest, of beatings until I went into therapy.

“I later had to fight like hell to convince model agencies I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way. They kept telling me I was ‘too ethnic’ or that my lips were too big.”