"I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world"
About this Quote
The intent is obvious - status, dominance, the hard sell of the self - but the subtext is more interesting. Dickinson isn’t just asserting fame; she’s staking ownership over a system that usually treats models as interchangeable. Saying “every magazine” isn’t meant to be fact-checked. It’s meant to overwhelm, to flood the listener with inevitability. Hyperbole becomes armor: if you’re everywhere, you can’t be discarded.
Context matters because Dickinson’s persona has always been loud, confrontational, and media-savvy, arriving at a time when the “supermodel” was becoming a brand rather than a face. Her generation helped turn fashion imagery into mainstream celebrity culture, and that shift rewarded people who could narrate their own legend as aggressively as photographers and editors did. The line also betrays the anxious logic of fame: you can be globally visible and still feel one rejection away from vanishing.
There’s a wink in it, too. The impossibility is part of the performance. Dickinson isn’t only selling credibility; she’s selling a character who refuses to be small.
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| Topic | Pride |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dickinson, Janice. (2026, January 16). I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-on-the-cover-of-every-magazine-in-the-106488/
Chicago Style
Dickinson, Janice. "I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-on-the-cover-of-every-magazine-in-the-106488/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-on-the-cover-of-every-magazine-in-the-106488/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.









