JANICE DICKINSON

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

I'm probably the biggest reality television star living.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.