'America's Next Top Model' Adrianne Curry says she was never paid after winning first season 17 years ago
Clearly, winning 'America's Next Top Model' is not everything it seems to be, 'ANTM' Season 1 winner, Adrianne Curry reveals, in a new post.
The show definitely did give her some exposure though Curry claims that it was a total 'sh*t show' for her. She also claimed that she never received the modeling opportunities or pay that she had been promised upon winning.
She took to share a new Instagram post on Tuesday, April 21, where she reiterated her issues with the show. "Why the fallout? I have addressed this before, but I keep hearing the lies told by others. Many Season 1 girls follow me on here and can back me that voice-overs were added to our show saying things they never said to us."
"We were led to believe daily the winner would be instantly rich and a huge Revlon cover girl. This was a lie. They added recordings to what was said after the fact. After the show, Revlon informed me it didn't matter who won, they were never going to have us as a model," she added.
"I cried at that meeting & they felt bad. They had me sit in a makeup chair in a tiny conference room while 6 people watched a makeup artist put makeup on me for $. Fine. Sure, I was crushed. I believed what I won with all my heart and thought I'd be able to really help my family. That is why I said it at the very end of the show. However, I was offered $$ to sit in that chair, so I was stoked."
"I never got the money. To this day, I have not been paid," she continued. Curry also shed some light on how both Top Model and Wilhelmina modeling agency would keep pointing fingers at each other and play a blame game over why she was not paid for her work.
"Wilhelmina informed me that top model burned their bridge with them by choosing IMG the next season and dumping them," she revealed. She also spoke of how she was hated by her own modeling agency and did a lot more to promote third-place runner up Elyse Sewell just to spite show creator, Tyra Banks.
"I didn't get paid AND I was locked in a contract with an agency THEY pissed off. Crickets," she confessed. Curry also shared how she was well aware that Tyra would not be doing all the work for her but she had hoped that Banks would "help to break from the agency they pissed off".
She went on to call it a "shit show" and compared it to "winning the lotto, doing the press, holding that big check-up for the cameras AND NEVER GETTING A DIME!" In the comments section of her Instagram post, Curry was asked why she was speaking out about the show now.
She responded saying that "Because the show did their propaganda how I immediately transformed into a diva. Expecting all this stuff and not lifting a finger to work or propel myself forward. It made them look good and me like I was some ungrateful asshat."
It has been 17 years since Curry won Season 1 of the reality TV show. "I think it's pretty f--king crazy and hilarious, honestly. It's a hell of a story!" she shared.