VH1 has a special on the rise and fall of the supermodel phenomenon (which I saw but did not hear at the gym), and it was dishy- more for how Janice Dickenson looks now...she is giving Joceyln Wildenstein a run for a money with those cat eyes. Meow.
The interesting thing about the show to me was how in the 90s, being a model- and only several were deemed "super" and we all know who they were- became more fabulous than being a movie or pop star, but the turnaround came in the late 90s when actual movie, tv, and pop stars usurped their place on fashion magazine covers (Jennifer Aniston, Gwenyth, Britney, Sarah Michelle, Jennifer Love Hewitt, etc etc etc).
A great and objective history of the world of modeling entitled MODEL written by Michael Gross, which starts from back in the day (when Linda Simpson was a hand model) to contemporary times is an interesting read.
I find more impressive and have to give credit to those models who moved on from the runway- Veronica Webb with her writing (and I miss her column in PAPER from years ago), Christy Turlington's Aruyveda line (and very public quitting of smoking), Cindy Crawford parlaying her talents in various different mediums, and so on. One of them has a reality modeling show too. So some of them became more than a size 2 with attitude and a photogenic face.