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"I can wrap my legs around my neck"

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It lands like a dare, the kind that’s half punchline and half résumé. Janice Dickinson’s “I can wrap my legs around my neck” isn’t really about anatomy; it’s about control of the room. A model’s body is her instrument and her commodity, and Dickinson weaponizes that fact with a swaggering literalism. She takes the euphemism everyone’s thinking - flexibility as erotic promise, youth as currency - and says the quiet part so loudly it becomes comedy.

The specific intent is domination-by-disclosure: she’s declaring that she can deliver what the culture demands (sex appeal, spectacle, physical exceptionalism) while also mocking the demand itself. That’s the subtext: in an industry that polices women’s bodies, she performs hyper-agency by turning her body into a boast she owns, not a product someone else appraises. It’s brash self-mythmaking, the same survival tactic that made her a template for the “supermodel” persona before the label fully calcified.

Context matters. Dickinson emerged in an era when models were becoming celebrities, not just mannequins, and celebrity requires a storyline. This line is pure tabloid-era branding: outrageous enough to travel, vivid enough to be repeated, and sexual enough to keep the spotlight warm. It also exposes the trap: her power is expressed through the very metric that confines her. The brilliance is that she knows it, and she turns that contradiction into a one-liner sharp enough to cut through the polite fictions of fashion culture.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dickinson, Janice. (2026, January 16). I can wrap my legs around my neck. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-wrap-my-legs-around-my-neck-92192/

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Dickinson, Janice. "I can wrap my legs around my neck." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-wrap-my-legs-around-my-neck-92192/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I can wrap my legs around my neck." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-wrap-my-legs-around-my-neck-92192/. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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Janice Dickinson (born February 17, 1953) is a Model from USA.

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