{"id":45930,"date":"2026-02-16T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=45930"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:10:18","slug":"americas-next-top-model-winner-adrianne-curry-claims-she-didnt-get-full-prize-for-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/02\/16\/americas-next-top-model-winner-adrianne-curry-claims-she-didnt-get-full-prize-for-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry claims she didn’t get full prize for winning"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s Next Top Model<\/a> winner Adrianna Curry has claimed that she didn’t receive her full prize for winning cycle one of the global competition.<\/p>\n

During the final episode of the cycle, Tyra told the cast that the winner of America’s Next Top Model would win “a contract with Revlon, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, and representation by top modeling agency Wilhelmina.”<\/p>\n

However, Adrianna claims that the following year America’s Next Top Model swapped agencies to IMG Models, making her feel ignored at Wilhelmina.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in 2023, she recalled: “What I won was to go to Revlon corporate, sit in a back room, have a makeup artist put makeup on my face for a team of about seven people watching me. Who the f*ck would fight as hard as we fought for that?”<\/p>\n

She claims she felt “f*cking humiliated” by the gig and claims it only paid $15k, despite being told she would become a “huge Revlon model.”<\/p>\n

As for the issues at Wilhelmina agency, she claimed: “[The agents] wanted me to fail. They straight-up told me. They were pissed off because Top Model made them a bunch of promises they didn’t keep because no agency wanted to be part of the show when it first came out.”<\/p>\n

Former Wilhelmina vice president, Ray Lata, responded to Adrianne’s claims, saying: ”\u00a0Twenty years ago, Wilhelmina had different owners and staff. Wilhelmina is now a public company. It seems unlikely there would be sufficient motivation to harm Tyra and not try to maximize a model’s earning potential.”<\/p>\n

Adrianne Curry alleged she tried to go to the staff of America’s Next Top model for help, but claims that they “stopped answering phone calls.”<\/p>\n

She now says she regrets using her interviews to publicly lash out at Tyra Banks and America’s Next Top Model, and says she is now thankful for her experience.<\/p>\n

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