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The first-ever winner of America’s Next Top Model won’t appear in Netflix’s explosive docuseries about the controversial reality show. 

Adrianne Curry is ‘hard retired,’ she says 

Adrianne Curry, then 20, beat out nine other contestants to win the first cycle of the modeling competition series hosted by Tyra Banks in 2003. At least one season 1 cast member will open up about her experience on ANTM in Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model – runner-up Shannon Stewart. However, Curry declined to participate. 

“No, guys. I [don’t] do this sh$t and won’t be on it or anything else,” she wrote on X after Netflix dropped a trailer for the three-part series on January 26. “Sorry. Hard retired. Hard pass.”

In a follow-up post, Curry said she was “deeply grateful” she won ANTM Season 1. But she objected to the Netflix doc, which she suspected would involve “psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens,” a move she described as “absurd.” 

“I don’t trust people to not manipulate things I say for tv, so i decline everything.” she added. “Also, the public is cult-like and cruel, so the last thing I want is a bunch of eyeballs on me. I hope the other girls do not have their words twisted in their netflix show.”

In another post on TikTok, Curry added that she had “zero trust in producers” and would “say no every time” she was asked to participate in such projects.  

Stewart, on the other hand, said she was eager to share her experience of being on the show, where she was famously criticized for refusing to pose for a nude photoshoot. 

“This chapter was intense,” she captioned an Instagram post where she shared the trailer for   the Netflix show. “The growth that followed was even more powerful. Honored to be part of this docuseries and grateful for the full-circle moment.”

What is ‘America’s Next Top Model’ winner Adrianne Curry doing today?

After winning America’s Next Top Model, Curry continued to work as a model, appearing in print ads, television commercials, and runway shows. She also posed for Playboy and appeared in season 4 of The Surreal Life in 2005. While on that VH1 show, she met fellow cast member and The Brady Bunch alum Christopher Knight. The pair later married and starred in the spinoff series My Fair Brady. The show aired for three seasons, from 2005 to 2008. Curry and Knight divorced in 2011. 

In 2018, Curry married voice actor Matthew Rhode. The couple currently live in Montana, where Curry works selling Avon products. She says she has no regrets about leaving her life in the spotlight behind.

“I retired from entertainment in 2015 and sought a normal life minus botox, real housewives appearances and clinging to my past,” she wrote on X on Monday. “Man do I suck.”

Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model premieres February 16 on Netflix. 

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