America’s Next Top Model star unrecognisable 21 years after winning huge competition and bitter feud with host
AN AMERICA’S Next Top Model beauty looks unrecognisable 21 years after trading in Hollywood fame for a rural life.
The Illinois-born star, now 41, triumphed in the first ever season of the show back in 2002.
Yet now Adrianne Curry has switched up covershoots and TV shows for life on a farm selling Avon products.
She looks completely different from her America’s Next Top Model fame, filling her Instagram feed with make-up free snaps as opposed to her cosmetic-clad modelling campaigns of old.
In one, she tied her hair back under a baseball cap and pulled on a pair of glasses.
She switched up her designer clobber – following campaigns for everyone from Macy’s to Von Dutch and Ed Hardy – for a comfy logo T-Shirt.
Another snap showed her glowing as she posed make-up free with a morning coffee, while one image saw her proudly showcasing her cooking talents after whipping up a pie.
In her Instagram caption, she now describes herself as “OG Top Mode. Ex Hollywood Douche.
“Tolkien Enthusiast – Based Beauty Overlord.”
Back in 2017, she announced her engagement to Matthew Rhode and the pair relocated and eloped to Montana for what they called a “normal rural life.”
After upping sticks from the bright lights of fame she started a lifestyle blog and began selling Avon products.
Talking of the latter, she previously told HuffPost the idea had been sparked after watching the movie Edward Scissorhands, where an Avon lady features.
She said: “So, I started selling Avon. I’m really honest about the products too and I’ll flat out tell someone which three to skip and which other ones I like and that they should also purchase.
“Now I get to work from home and I want to have elves and moose in my yard….a far cry from when I had paparazzi outside.”
OPENING UP
It is certainly a far cry from her glam ANTM stint and the magazine covershoots that followed.
Adrianne then went on to host show Ballbreakers as well as appear on Dirt with Courtney Cox and The Surreal Life to name a few.
The latter sparked a spin-off show, My Fair Brady, with former husband Christopher Knight.
The pair married in 2006 and divorced seven years later.
Adrianne previously told the HuffPost of her time on America’s Next Top Model, which has a British spin off.
Adrianne said: “There was that element then of no one knowing what the f**k it was.
“It wasn’t as if the contestants went on saying to themselves ‘I’m going to be the sassy one,’ ‘I’ll be the sexy one.’
“Everyone went in being themselves and being afraid (laughs). Nobody knew what the hell they were doing and it ended up as great TV!”
FEUD CLAIM
Meanwhile the screen star, who rocketed to fame 22 years ago, had a public on and off screen feud with host and series creator, Tyra Banks.
It centred on Adrianne’s claims that the show made her look like a “diva.”
She wrote in a blog post how she had reached out to Tyra and the TV show after she suspected issues with her contract, only for her phone calls to be “ignored.”
In the lengthy post she told how she looked at Tyra as her “angel” yet believed ultimately she “didn’t give a f**k” about her.
In The Truth About Top Model post she also addressed her behaviour on show The Surreal Life – including barbed comments towards Tyra.
She added: “I took joy in knowing it would bother people. It was my ode to F**K YOU. I took every opportunity to let press know I was never paid or given my prize.
“I’d talk s**t about Tyra just to do it. Revenge was sweet.
“I talked mad s**t that I wouldn’t do now, I was a kid.”