• ANTM cycle 1 winner Adrianne Curry has spoken out towards the "woke lens" criticizing Tyra Banks' present.
• EW debuted an unique first take a look at a brand new exposé docuseries, which Curry stated she declined to take part in.
• Regardless of saying she turns down requests for interviews, Curry spoke to EW for a 2023 retrospective on the present.

After Entertainment Weekly's exclusive debut of a first look at a new Netflix docuseries inspecting the controversial historical past of America's Next Top Model, Adrianne Curry, the Tyra Banks-led actuality present's first winner, has slammed the "woke lens" of criticism she feels is unjustly lobbed on the style competitors sequence.

Greater than twenty years after profitable cycle 1 in 2003, Curry, who as soon as spoke out towards the present after her victory, took intention on the modern reevaluation of Banks' boundary-breaking present, after many have raised points about challenges that noticed fashions darkening their pores and skin to painting totally different races, judges body-shaming contestants, and extra.

"I’m deeply grateful I received the primary season of prime mannequin. i believe folks psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd," the 43-year-old wrote on X, shortly after the discharge of the trailer for Actuality Verify: Inside America's Subsequent High Mannequin. "I don't belief folks to not manipulate issues I say for television, so i decline the whole lot. Additionally, the general public is cult-like and merciless, so the very last thing I need is a bunch of eyeballs on me."

Curry did, nevertheless, comply with an interview with EW in 2023 for a twentieth anniversary article highlighting essentially the most stunning moments in ANTM historical past, throughout which she spoke about an occasion of on-camera sexual assault in Paris and allegedly not receiving the total prize package deal she was promised whereas competing on this system.

"What I received was to go to Revlon company, sit in a again room, have a make-up artist put make-up on my face for a workforce of about seven folks watching me. Who the f— would battle as exhausting as we fought for that?" Curry instructed EW on the time, including that she was "f—ing humiliated" by the gig — which she claimed paid solely $15,000 — after she stated the present's panel of judges spent the primary cycle on UPN promising the younger girls would grow to be "enormous Revlon fashions" with careers akin to that of Cindy Crawford and Banks.
On X this week, Curry doubled down on pushing again towards the brand new docuseries, writing, "I hope the opposite women don’t have their phrases twisted of their netflix present."

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In response to a consumer who replied to Curry's message by writing, "That documentary goes to be a s— present with a lease to make Tyra come out trying higher than she deserves imo," Curry wrote: "I really feel the identical means…I fear concerning the women from my season who agreed to do it."

In EW's unique trailer for the mission, a number of contestants are featured talking about their time on the present, together with Whitney Thompson (cycle 10 winner), Danielle Evans (cycle 6 winner), Keenyah Hill (cycle 4 finalist), and Curry's cycle 1 costar, Giselle Samson.

As EW first reported in 2024, Banks herself additionally sat for her first in-depth interview about ANTM's controversies, whereas judges Nigel Barker, Jay Manuel, and Miss J. Alexander additionally returned to look within the docuseries.

Elsewhere on X, Curry's responses to her preliminary message ranged from reiterating her retirement from Hollywood to different shocking reveals about cycle 1, together with a "enjoyable reality," during which she stated that "nobody else would room with the lasbian [sic]…. however me," within the contestants' New York Metropolis home, referencing fellow mannequin and the present's first lesbian contestant, Ebony Haith.

"And it bought me a room with ONLY her and I in it. …which was AWESOME!!" Curry continued.

In current months, Curry spoke out a few makeover she obtained on this system, alleging in a social media put up that the makeover "completely broken" her scalp and left her partially bald greater than twenty years later.

Curry stated she "had an oozing wound from the braid" and that "half my hair had been ripped out," which she tried to get mounted after filming ended. (A consultant for Banks didn’t reply to EW's request for remark on the time.)

Although she hasn't, in a major capability, spoken about ANTM's controversies through the years, supermodel and Emmy-winning speak present host Banks maybe gave her strongest protection of High Mannequin thus far whereas on stage on the 2025 Essence Black Ladies in Hollywood Awards.

On the occasion, she admitted to attendees that she stated "some dumb s—" on this system. "I refuse to have my legacy be about some stuff linked collectively on the web when there have been 24 cycles of adjusting the world," she stated, pointing towards casting fashions who bucked business developments, akin to cycle 11's trans mannequin Isis King, cycle 12's Tahlia Brookins, who had burn scars throughout her physique, a number of plus-size fashions through the years, and boundary-pushing supermodel Winnie Harlow, who joined the competitors with an autoimmune pores and skin dysfunction referred to as vitiligo.

Within the Netflix sequence' preview, Banks is proven additional admitting that she "went too far" on ANTM, and later defends her imaginative and prescient for the present by telling the viewers, "You guys have been demanding it. So, we saved pushing an increasing number of and extra."

Actuality Verify: Inside America's Subsequent High Mannequin debuts Feb. 16 on Netflix.

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