MorphWorld: Janice Dickinson into one scary person

She was the world's first supermodel, exploding out of nowhere in the early 1970s, while still a teenager, to grace the covers of scores of fashion magazines worldwide.

The camera simply could not get enough of her.

Her autobiography, "No Lifeguard On Duty," published in 2003 when she turned 50, is a remarkable book — candid, trashy, revelatory, depressing, funny as heck and ultimately amazing in that Ms. Dickinson survived long enough to write it.

She has absolutely no fear, it seems, and names names — lots and lots of boldface names — sometimes in stories that I'm sure caused major squirming among those mentioned.

I call her book the female equivalent of "Scar Tissue," the searing autobiography of Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Last week came the news that Ms. Dickinson has signed on for a new reality series, to air next spring on the Oxygen network.

Along with the announcement were pictures of her (below)

in her current state of plastic surgery turnaround.

I don't know how many operations she's had but if I were her I'd call it a day in the OR.

Time does not do good things to the artifice of the plastic surgeon: the result is wonderful once the healing ends but then slowly and inexorably unravels.

Gravity always wins in the end.

I do agree, however, that her driver's license picture (below)

is just great.