Tyra Banks Addresses America’s Next Top Model Backlash

Adrianne Curry-Rhode, Cycle 1

Though she would go on to pose for Ed Hardy and Von Dutch, the series’ inaugural winner is, perhaps, most famous for the waaaaay she became a Brady wife. Marrying Christopher Knight after they met on VH1’s Surreal Life, she and the Brady Bunch alum would go on to star on the network’s spinoff My Fair Brady before ending their five-year union in 2011. Now remarried to voiceover actor Matthew Rhode, she defected from L.A. to Montana were she runs her blog and sells Avon products. 

“I felt that I was on a cusp,” Adrianne told People in July 2024. “I was 32 years old and I got offered a job for face fillers, and it was a huge payday with free face fillers and one up to my contract and all this stuff. And I remember sitting there, and that money was so good that I considered it. Then I thought, I am willing to deface, to mutilate myself for money?”

She could envision what came next as well.

“I saw a future on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with my face full of filler and me clinging to youth that is gone,” she admitted. “I just felt like there was something more out there than just relevancy and money, and I made that decision to leave.”