Daily Inspiration Quote by Janice Dickinson

Janice Dickinson’s line lands like a punchline delivered from inside the beauty industrial complex. “As the saying goes” is the sly tell: there is no saying. She invents a folksy maxim to make an extreme desire sound casual, even inevitable. That’s the trick of celebrity candor here - packaging vanity as humor, then letting the humor smuggle in something uglier.

The specific intent is performative bravado: Dickinson, long branded as the “first supermodel,” doubles down on the persona of someone who refuses to age quietly. But the subtext is panic with good lighting. “Best-looking corpse” is a morbid exaggeration that exposes the logic models are trained to live by: the body is a product, and the product must not show depreciation. Death becomes the only finish line that can’t be retouched, so she tries to preempt it with aesthetics.

Context matters. Dickinson came up in an era when fashion sold a narrow, punishing idea of female perfection, and when tabloid culture rewarded women for “not letting themselves go.” Her quote reads as both a confession and a critique - not because she’s trying to be philosophical, but because the absurdity is the critique. It’s funny, then it’s not: the joke depends on the audience recognizing that the pressure is so relentless it follows you past your pulse.

It also functions as a little act of control. If the culture is going to stare, she’ll script the stare, even posthumously. That’s darkly comic agency - and a bleak measure of what beauty is allowed to cost.