Books like No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

I bought this book because I can’t stop watching Janice Dickinson’s show, “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,” on the Oxygen Channel. Also, I love stories about beautiful women. I read this book in less than 24-hours.From her deeply troubled her relationship with her parents (her father beat her and her pill-popping Mother and sexually abused her older sister), to her many problematic romantic relationships (she’s been married three times, and, it seems, slept with half the heterosexual men in the fashion and entertainment industries) to her early struggle to succeed as a model and her battles with drugs and alcohol, Dickinson’s life has been packed with drama.No Lifeguard on Duty charts her journey to the top (during a time when doors were slammed in her face, b/c she was “too exotic” as a brunette when models were blond and blue-eyed), and the problems she encountered both along the way and after she attained success. It’s fairly typical celeb-bio stuff. The thing that makes it interesting is Dickinson’s complete candor. It’s no wonder so many of the people she encounters seem so enchanted with her. She ignored Calvin Klein's comment, "models aren't supposed to think." She has no fear of speaking her mind. Her reflections on the past are littered with profanity, pointed observations about herself and others and even humor.Her ability to look back on her mistakes with fairly clear eyes lends her memoir a certain depth. While it’s not too deep, it still has many of the features of a typical Hollywood autobiography – name-dropping, detailed depictions of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. But at least you can tell that Dickinson really is trying to examine her life and change it for the better. And that is truly refreshing.