Adrianne Curry Reveals the Horrifying Truth of Her ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Makeover
What To Know
- Adrianne Curry, winner of America’s Next Top Model Season 1, revealed that the show’s makeover left her with permanent scalp damage 22 years later.
- Curry described how a weave was forcibly installed despite warnings about her hair’s fragility.
- She criticized the show’s makeover process as unnecessarily harsh and damaging.
Reality show America’s Next Top Model first debuted in 2003, and over the years, audiences watched host Tyra Banks and her minions give aspiring models drastic makeovers. Sometimes career-making, sometimes cringe-inducing, but always guaranteed to stir up drama on and off the runway.
Fans have watched wannabe models receive hair extensions, only for them to be pulled out after hours in the salon chair. They watched long-haired beauties cry after being forced to get pixie cuts. And they watched competitors deal with hours of burning scalps, chemical fumes, and blunt Tyra-isms, all for a makeover that was supposed to take them to the “next level.”
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While the crying and humiliation might have made for “good television,” apparently, with these makeovers came permanent damage. At least according to ANTM Season 1 winner, Adrianne Curry. According to the reality star and model, the makeover she received left her “partially bald” 22 years later.
In a post on Instagram, a teary Curry shared her Top Model journey and how she became scarred, both mentally and physically, from the experience.
“I want to discuss why I’m partially bald right here, and there,” pointing to her temples. “My hair doesn’t grow anymore, and the reason is when I was on Top Model, Tyra Banks told them to put a weave in my hair.”
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“Now the Black stylist who was putting it in pulled her aside, and I heard them tell her, ‘This white chick’s hair is too fragile for this.’ And she said, ‘Oh, no, no, just do it.'”
“Halfway through the show, I had an oozing wound from the braids. Half my hair had been ripped out here,” indicating to her temples. “Look at the little bit of hair that grows here. That’s it now, baby.”
“Anyway, when I got off the show, they didn’t even take the weave out. So I had to go to a Black salon,” recalled the Top Model. “I will never forget, because all the hair stylists came around, and one chick was like, ‘Who the hell put this in your white head?’ I couldn’t say anything because I was under an NDA.”
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“It took hours and hours for them to get it out. I was left with a horrific mullet, scabs all over my head. They were so sweet. They couldn’t believe that this was done to me.”
“So fast forward, and it’s never grown. This entire area,” said Curry through tears. “It’s permanently damaged from that weave.”
“I think most of those makeovers were done just to torture us, honestly. Because on Episode 1, they cut my hair for the photoshoot, and it looked really good,” explained Curry. “They made my hair look awesome. And then they were like, ‘You need a makeover.’ And I’m like, wait a minute, they just cut like five, six inches off my hair, what do you mean I need a makeover?”
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“And then they put that weave in, and it was awful,” said Curry. “It felt so validating to be in that salon with all the women that were just like, ‘Who would do this to you?’ Her name is Tyra.”
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