Where is the first-ever winner of America’s Next Top Model now?

A new spotlight has been shone on the monolithic reality TV show America’s Next Top Model, after the release of the documentary Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model on Netflix, which explores the toxic culture that dogged the hit series.

Several of the show’s contestants agreed to appear in the documentary, as did the judges, Tyra Banks, Jay Manuel and J. Alexander, yet one famous face was missing: Adrianne Curry. The now-43-year-old was the first-ever winner of the series in 2003, and quickly shot to fame with the help of a modeling contract with Wilhemina Models.

After her win, Adrianne went on to model for major publications like Us Weekly, People, Life & Style, Maxim and the Spanish version of Marie Claire. She also starred in the fourth season of The Surreal Life, where she met and fell for The Brady Bunch actor Christopher Knight.

The pair headed their own reality TV show, My Fair Brady, from 2005 to 2008, and tied the knot in 2006. Adrianne and Christopher went their separate ways in 2011 and were granted a divorce in 2013. In the mid-2010s, Adrianne decided to leave Los Angeles and her modeling career behind altogether and move to Arizona to escape the spotlight. “I felt that I was on a cusp,” she told People about the major decision.

“I was 32 years old, and I got offered a job for face fillers, and it was a huge payday with free face fillers and one up to my contract and all this stuff. And I remember sitting there, and that money was so good that I considered it. Then I thought, I am willing to deface, to mutilate myself for money?”

“I just felt like there was something more out there than just relevancy and money, and I made that decision to leave,” she added. After meeting voice actor Matthew Rhode in 2015, the couple then moved to Montana together and eloped in 2018. She now runs her own lifestyle blog and works as an Avon sales representative.

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Adrianne told the publication about her questionable experiences during the filming of America’s Next Top Model, including the fact that the winner was promised a contract with Revlon, which did not eventuate.

“They lied to us because none of us would’ve fought as hard as we did for some [expletive] prize. We’d be like, ‘That’s stupid,'” she said, before admitting that the show prepared her for how “cutthroat” the modelling industry really was.

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The reality TV star defended Tyra in an interview with The US Sun, after the supermodel came under fire during the COVID-19 pandemic for her perceived toxic behavior towards the contestants on the show. 

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“I felt bad when everyone thought it was funny during Covid, when all the top model contestants wanted to air their grievances, and they wanted me to jump on board because if anyone could be mad at her, it would be me,” she told the outlet.

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“But I’m like, dude, I’m so over that, it’s been 900 years. You [expletive] need to let this go, like you need to live your life and not hold grudges like this.” Adrianne added that she hadn’t seen Tyra since 2003, when she won the series.

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Following the announcement of the Reality Check documentary on Netflix, the former model took to X to explain why she wouldn’t appear in the project. “I think people psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd,” she wrote. “I don’t trust people to not manipulate things I say for TV, so I decline everything.”

“Also, the public is cult-like and cruel, so the last thing I want is a bunch of eyeballs on me…I have [zero] trust in any producers, no desire to be really public in this day and age…and am hard retired from Hollywood.”