Adrianne Curry, the first-ever winner of America’s Next Top Model, pushed back on the idea that Netflix’s upcoming docuseries will accurately unpack the reality show’s behind-the-scenes drama.
America’s Next Top Model debuted in 2003 and ran for over a decade, becoming one of the most influential reality competition series before coming to an end in 2018.
Following Netflix’s announcement of the three-part docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model—which will include Tyra Banks alongside judges Jay Manuel, Miss J. Alexander, and Nigel Barker—Curry took to social media to share her concerns.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Curry said she doesn’t “trust people to not manipulate things I say for tv” and expressed discomfort with the show’s history being reexamined through what she described as a “woke lens.”
Curry later shared on Instagram that she won’t be taking part in the docuseries, saying she’s “hard retired” and doubling down on her belief that her words could be twisted on screen. After winning America’s Next Top Model, Curry went on to appear on VH1’s The Surreal Life, where she met former Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight.
Their age-gap relationship — Curry was 24 when they married in 2006, while Knight was 49 — sparked plenty of controversy at the time. Still, the two became reality TV fixtures throughout the 2000s before divorcing in 2012.
Curry has long been vocal about her experience on ANTM, claiming she wasn’t fairly compensated and that the post-show reality was nothing like what she had been promised. After appearing on several other reality shows in the 2000s and 2010s, she eventually stepped away from the spotlight, though she frequently uses social media to caution others about trusting reality TV producers to tell an honest story.
