Janice Dickinson is back in the I’m A Celeb jungle and, like during her stint in 2007, the New Yorker is anything but a wallflower.
In her opening trial the self-proclaimed “first supermodel”, 68, groaned and wailed, point blank refusing to eat some of the disgusting dishes in order to gain stars for the camp.
It is no surprise the Brooklyn-born star, who shot to fame in the 1970s, is not comfortable eating creations such as “French Onion Poop” when you look at her normal lifestyle.
She admitted a few years ago: “I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic. I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.”
Although Janice treated her body as a temple in recent years, this wasn’t always the case.
The fiery star, whose career had a resurgence as an outspoken judge on America’s Next Top Model in the early Noughties, has previously admitted to having a very hedonistic lifestyle in her youth.
Janice says she frequently took drugs and claims she slept with more than 1,000 men, including Sylvester Stallone. She said: “People ask me what it was like... but I don’t remember. We were all so high.
“Sly was a great lover. He once dressed up as an army officer for sex, And he shot his gun off in the back yard a lot. He was weird.”
Janice, who lives in California with fourth husband, psychiatrist Dr Robert “Rocky” Gerner, is now totally drug and alcohol free.
This means she won’t be craving a glass of vino to cope if she has another heated row with Carol Vorderman.
However, she does not appear to be able to stay away from plastic surgery, which resulted in her declaring bankruptcy in 2013 due to unpaid cosmetic bills.
More recently Janice was thrust into the limelight when she testified at disgraced American actor Bill Crosby’s trial that he had drugged and raped her in 1982. In her powerful testimony in 2018 the model said: “I didn’t consent to this. Here was ‘America’s Dad’ on top of me. A married man, father of five kids, on top of me. I was thinking how wrong it was. How very wrong it was.”
She also recounted the profound effect it had on her life. “The rape is etched into my soul. Therapy has helped some but it has not helped to restore my innocence.
“I was never the same. I will never be the same.”
Despite this harrowing occurrence, and suffering physical abuse from her late father Ray, Janice went on to build a great career for herself, especially in an industry that usually has a short shelf life for women. As she once said: “The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me. And I love to live life at full throttle.”
