Janice Dickinson turns 52 next month. When it comes to cosmetic surgery she has had the whole works. But Dickinson also has the major advantage of having started out startingly beautiful. She was a supermodel before the days of supermodels. She appeared on the cover of Vogue, not once, but 37 times.

So what does a 50+ year old woman who was originally blessed with great beauty - and who has gone on to sample almost every procedure in the deli of cosmetic surgery - look like?

Here's a video clip of her from last month.

Having spared no expense to keep her looks, Dickinson is definitely not a frumpy fifty. What would be the better descriptive adjective here?

In an interview with Bethanne Patrick, Dickinson has this to say in reply to what role does beauty play in dating and mating?

"Well, it does and it doesn't because sometimes the great beauties of the world use what they have: their wit, and their intellect, and their instincts, in snaking a fellow or a girl. That is far more satisfying in the long run than external beauty, which fades [and] external beauty changes. It gels and morphs into other spots, droopy areas, like shallow canyons on the face called crow's-feet which I know plenty about, being the Botox queen. I'm telling you, I'm 51, and the older I get, the better I like myself. I'm welcoming all this stuff creeping up, I guess I have no choice, but I'm welcoming all this stuff creeping up on my body."