“ANTM” winner Adrianne Curry says Tyra Banks’ makeover ‘completely broken’ her head, ‘partially bald’ 22 years later

• ANTM cycle 1 winner Adrianne Curry says Tyra Banks' makeover led to an "oozing wound."
• Curry alleges that the painful weave she obtained left her "partially bald" 22 years later.
• "I feel most of these makeovers had been performed simply to torture us," Curry maintains.

America's Next Top Model cycle 1 winner Adrianne Curry allegedly suffered for her artwork, as the fact character and vogue mannequin has claimed {that a} Tyra Banks-led makeover she obtained on this system left her "partially bald" 22 years later.

Greater than 20 years after successful the modeling competitors's inaugural season, Curry claimed in a brand new Instagram video that Banks' imaginative and prescient to raise her have a look at the time resulted in hair that "doesn’t develop anymore" on a specific patch of scalp close to her left temple.

Curry confirmed off the portion of her head within the video earlier than telling the story behind it.

"The reason being, after I was on Prime Mannequin, Tyra Banks informed them to place a weave in my hair," the ANTM star and eventual Surreal Life character mentioned. "The Black stylists that had been placing it in pulled her apart. I heard them inform her, 'This white chick's hair is simply too fragile for this."

The 43-year-old alleged that Banks informed them to "simply do it," so that they proceeded.

Curry mentioned that "midway by means of," she "had an oozing wound from the braid" and that "half my hair had been ripped out" of her head.

After successful the present, Curry mentioned she traveled again to her hometown of Joliet, Ailing., the place she "needed to go to a Black salon" to get the weave correctly eliminated — however she couldn't inform the staff the place she obtained it put in "as a result of I used to be beneath an NDA."

She mentioned it took "hours and hours" for the workers to take away the weave, and that she was "left with a horrific mullet, scabs throughout my head,” and that the workers informed her whoever put the weave in her head should've been "somebody who hates" her.

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"It's completely broken from that weave," Curry mentioned of the present state of her scalp. "It was so painful. I bear in mind [fellow contestant] Kesse on the present was attempting to show me the right way to itch it, however I didn't know. I didn't know any of this. Earlier than that, she noticed me [scratching it] with a fork."

Curry completed the video by alleging that "I feel most of these makeovers had been performed simply to torture us," and identified that she'd simply trimmed her hair for one of many present's picture challenges days prior, so the truth that they wished to alter her look once more on the makeover episode shocked her.

Leisure Weekly has reached out to a consultant for Banks for remark.

In ANTM cycle 1, episode 3, "The Lady Who Will get Rushed to the Emergency Room," Curry says in a confessional that she endured ache all through the salon go to.

"The entire course of with the weave could be very lengthy and fairly painful, however I don't like to point out anyone I'm going by means of ache, so I didn't say something," she says. "It was positively price it, ? I look 1,000,000 instances totally different."

Later within the episode, Curry suffers one other setback as she's taken to the hospital after coming down with meals poisoning, although she later returns to set in time for panel, the place the judges reward her tenacity.

Following her victory on the present, Curry turned crucial of this system and Banks, although her opinion on the fact TV expertise has softened through the years.

In a 2023 interview with EW looking back at some of the most shocking ANTM moments in historical past, Curry spoke about getting groped on the streets of Paris throughout filming (a portion of which the present documented on the air), and he or she alleged that she obtained prizes that paled compared to what the present promised contestants throughout filming.

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"What I gained was to go to Revlon company, sit in a again room, have a make-up artist put make-up on my face for a crew of about seven individuals watching me. Who the f— would battle as onerous as we fought for that?" Curry mentioned, noting that she was "f—ing humiliated" by the job — which she mentioned paid round $15,000 — a stark distinction to the "large Revlon fashions" the judges informed them throughout manufacturing that they'd find yourself being.

Watch Curry focus on her ANTM makeover within the video above.

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