She lies when she says she coined the phrase supermodel NOR is she considered the first supermodel:
An early use of the term supermodel appeared in 1891 in an interview with artist Henry Stacy Marks for The Strand Magazine, in which Marks told journalist Harry How, "A good many models are addicted to drink, and, after sitting a while, will suddenly go to sleep. Then I have had what I call the 'super' model. You know the sort of man; he goes in for theatrical effect ..."[15] On 6 October 1942, a writer named Judith Cass had used the term super model for her article in the Chicago Tribune, which headlined "Super Models Are Signed for Fashion Show".[16] Later in 1943, an agent named Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in a "how-to" book about modeling entitled So You Want to Be a Model! in which Dessner wrote, "She will be a super-model, but the girl in her will be like the girl in you—quite ordinary, but ambitious and eager for personal development."[17][18] According to Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross, the term supermodel was first used by Dessner. In 1947, anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin wrote "supermodel" in his book Men Out of Asia.[19] In 1949, the magazine Cosmopolitan referred to Anita Colby, the highest paid model at the time,[20] as a "super model": "She's been super model, super movie saleswoman, and top brass at Selznick and Paramount."[21] On 18 October 1959, Vancouver's Chinatown News described Susan Chew as a "super model".[22]
The term supermodel had been used several times in the media in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965, the encyclopedic guide American Jurisprudence Trials used the term "super model" ("...at issue was patient's belief that her husband was having an affair with a super model").[23] On 21 March 1967, The New York Times referred to Twiggy as a supermodel;[24] the February 1968 article of Glamour listed all 19 "supermodels"; the Chicago Daily Defender wrote "New York Designer Turns Super Model" in January 1970; The Washington Post and Mansfield News Journal used the term in 1971; and in 1974 both the Chicago Tribune and The Advocate also used the term "supermodel" in their articles.[25] American Vogue used the term "super-model" to describe Jean Shrimpton in the 15 October 1965 edition and "supermodel" on the cover page to describe Margaux Hemingway in the 1 September 1975 edition.[26] Hemingway was again described as a "supermodel" in the 25 July 1977 edition of Time.[24] Jet also described Beverly Johnson as a "supermodel" in the 22 December 1977 edition.[27]
[bold]Model Janice Dickinson has incorrectly stated that she coined the term supermodel in 1979, as a compound of Superman and model.[/bold] [28] During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dickinson stated that her agent Monique Pilar of Elite Model Management asked her, "Janice, who do you think you are, Superman?" She replied, "No ... I'm a supermodel, honey, and you will refer to me as a supermodel and you will start a supermodel division." Dickinson also claims to have been the first supermodel.[28]
[bold]Lisa Fonssagrives is widely considered to have been the world's first supermodel[/bold], with a career that began in the 1930s.[29][30][31][32] She was in most of the major fashion magazines and general interest magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Town & Country, Life, Vogue, the original Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, and Time.[33] Evelyn Nesbit (with a career launched around 1900)[34] and Dorian Leigh (career launched in 1944) have also been called the world's first supermodel,[35][36][37] as well as Jean Shrimpton (early 1960s),[38][39][40][41][42] and Gia Carangi (late 1970s).[43][44]
