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Earlier this week, news broke that a documentary looking back on America’s Next Top Model and its most problematic moments is coming to Netflix in February. So far, the show’s mainstays, including Tyra Banks , Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and J. Alexander are all confirmed to be participating, but what about the contestants? The show’s first ever winner, Adrianne Curry, is now speaking out , because not only will fans not see her in the documentary, but she has a lot of feelings about the project even being made in the first place.
The trailer for the documentary debuted this week.
After ANTM has received criticism for years for the controversies that came up during filming (not to mention the many moments of the show that simply did not age well), the pros on the show are finally speaking out in the new documentary, which is titled Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
“I knew I went too far … it was very intense, but you guys were demanding it,” Tyra said at one point in the trailer, hinting that she believes the audience may be to blame.
Adrianne made it very clear she did not participate.
After getting many questions about whether or not she sat down with producers for the documentary, Adrianne put it all out there in a post on X , writing, “No, guys. I dont do this sh$t and won’t be on it or anything else. Sorry. Hard retired. Hard pass.”
She later returned with another message. Adrianne added , “I am deeply grateful I won the first season of top model. i think people psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd. I don’t trust people to not manipulate things I say for tv, so i decline everything. Also, the public is cult-like and cruel, so the last thing I want is a bunch of eyeballs on me. I hope the other girls do not have their words twisted in their netflix show.”
Adrianne retired from public life 10 years ago, and it sounds like she’s made her peace with that fact.
She made an Instagram post abot the situation, too.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adrianne Curry-Rhode (@adriannecurry)
Just to make sure where she stands on documentaries like this one is clear, she also shared a screenshot of her post on Instagram, adding in the caption, “I say no to all of these. I have 0 trust in any producers, no desire to be really public in this day and age…. and am hard retired from Hollywood.”
In response to one fan, Adrianne added, “It’s a cover up fest. Let ’em weave their webs.”
Reality Check begins streaming on Netflix on February 16, so it won’t be too long until we find out if it’s as much of a cover up as Adrianne suspects it is.
What to Know
Earlier this week, news broke that a documentary looking back on America’s Next Top Model and its most problematic moments is coming to Netflix in February. So far, the show’s mainstays, including Tyra Banks , Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and J. Alexander are all confirmed to be participating, but what about the contestants? The show’s first ever winner, Adrianne Curry, is now speaking out , because not only will fans not see her in the documentary, but she has a lot of feelings about the project even being made in the first place.
The trailer for the documentary debuted this week.
After ANTM has received criticism for years for the controversies that came up during filming (not to mention the many moments of the show that simply did not age well), the pros on the show are finally speaking out in the new documentary, which is titled Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
“I knew I went too far … it was very intense, but you guys were demanding it,” Tyra said at one point in the trailer, hinting that she believes the audience may be to blame.
Adrianne made it very clear she did not participate.
After getting many questions about whether or not she sat down with producers for the documentary, Adrianne put it all out there in a post on X , writing, “No, guys. I dont do this sh$t and won’t be on it or anything else. Sorry. Hard retired. Hard pass.”
She later returned with another message. Adrianne added , “I am deeply grateful I won the first season of top model. i think people psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd. I don’t trust people to not manipulate things I say for tv, so i decline everything. Also, the public is cult-like and cruel, so the last thing I want is a bunch of eyeballs on me. I hope the other girls do not have their words twisted in their netflix show.”
Adrianne retired from public life 10 years ago, and it sounds like she’s made her peace with that fact.
She made an Instagram post abot the situation, too.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adrianne Curry-Rhode (@adriannecurry)
Just to make sure where she stands on documentaries like this one is clear, she also shared a screenshot of her post on Instagram, adding in the caption, “I say no to all of these. I have 0 trust in any producers, no desire to be really public in this day and age…. and am hard retired from Hollywood.”
In response to one fan, Adrianne added, “It’s a cover up fest. Let ’em weave their webs.”
Reality Check begins streaming on Netflix on February 16, so it won’t be too long until we find out if it’s as much of a cover up as Adrianne suspects it is.
A former America’s Next Top Model winner, India Gants, is revealing the grim reality of what it was like being on the show. India Gants, 28, competed on the show in 2017 and came in first place. Although it may have seemed all glitz and glam on the television screen, the model is revealing that the experience wasn’t all it was made out to be. Taking to TikTok, India gave some disturbing insight into what the reality show was like behind the scenes, even comparing it to living in a “prison.”
She shared a series of videos to her TikTok.
@indiagants Replying to @Ona Judge ♬ original sound - India Gants
India shared a series of videos to her TikTok answering users’ questions and detailing her experience. In one video, she confirmed that the models weren’t able to leave the house while filming.
“You do not get to leave the house for the entire six weeks during filming expect for photoshoots, challenges, things like that,” she said. She went on to reveal that the models didn’t have “any freedom” for activities such as taking a walk, going to the mall, or getting their nails done. They also were escorted to and from the house by a crew member on the production team.
She called it a ‘bubble.’
@indiagants Replying to @user6667814444059 #greenscreen ♬ original sound - India Gants
Continuing, India shared that they weren’t allowed to have their phones during filming and rarely had any access to the outside world. “It’s such a weird world, like you are in this literal bubble during filming.”
Because her hair was dyed, it was required that India go to the salon once a week for maintenance, so she experienced a little more freedom than the other girls.
Their bathrooms had no doors.
@indiagants Replying to @it’s 14 j’s ♬ original sound - India Gants
In another video, India responded after someone asked, “Is it true that the bathroom doors were removed? Was this all to get people in a bad mood so they’d fight on camera or something?” India replied that there were no doors but instead shower curtains to cover the bathroom entrance, but once inside, everything was “wide open.”
“There was really no privacy whatsoever and you just kind of had to get used to using the bathroom in front of other people,” she said, adding that if more privacy was needed for going “number two” there was one bathroom in the confessional for that.
Speaking about the hotel the models stayed in before filming, she described the ‘horrible’ living conditions.
@indiagants Replying to @Sam Azman ♬ original sound - India Gants
“They were so small, like you barely had room to move,” she said. She added that there was a “janky” TV with two channels, and they couldn’t have books or cellphones or “anyway to communicate with the outside world.”
She explained that they’d go 23 hours with no human interaction, and for one hour they’d get pulled out for some activity relating to the show. “It was literally like we were in prison,” she shared in the video.
People were taken aback by the realities of what it was like being on the show.
@indiagants Lil yap sesh about money 💰 and america’s next top model! ♬ original sound - India Gants
“I have a theory that antm is just tyra’s version of the stanford prison experiment,” one person commented.
“How can anyone think that’s acceptable? Besides to humiliate or stress the candidates what was their reasoning for doing that?” another TikToker asked.
“W ow. cant imagine going through all of that, and went home with nothing,” someone else wrote. “Feel sorry for girls who got eliminated early. thank goodness you managed to stick it out.”
It was all for TV.
@indiagants Replying to @…her? ♬ original sound - India Gants
Although many commenters questioned why things were done the way they were, India clarified that the show was for entertainment. “Primarily, it’s a TV show. They have to make good TV. It’s not a real modeling experience,” she said. “They are producing a TV show that has to get views. They have to make it interesting.”
