adrianne curry

Biography

Early life

Before participating in ANTM, Curry was a waitress. She dropped out of Joliet West High School in Joliet, Illinois in 2000 when she was a junior. Afterward, she earned her GED. She was also involved with drugs and had gone to rehab prior to ANTM.

America's Next Top Model

While on ANTM in 2003, Curry had a unique drive to win the competition. She gained the respect of many judges when she showed up to elimination while she was coping with food poisoning. After winning ANTM, Curry believed she would receive a "big" Revlon contract. In Adrianne Curry's interview with www.PR.com^[1], she said the contract did not end up being what she expected. "We were told throughout the taping of the show that the winner would have a huge cosmetics deal with Revlon," she said. "Billboards, magazines and all that wonderful fun stuff. What ended up happening was, I found out later on when I was waiting around for this deal that never showed up… I was told that it was just convention work. I never got paid till this day for the work that I did for them. There had been a deal already arranged before they even picked out the contestants of the show that it would not be a big contract, but that it would just be this thing. They weren't even sure if the show would make it on the air, let alone be a smash success and then into this cult phenomenon. To be in season one of America's Next Top Model was fabulous because we were the first, but it was also a great learning experience." Because of her experiences subsequent to winning, Curry has expressed dislike for Tyra Banks on several magazines, including Page Six, The Daily Collegian, Steppin' Out Magazine, and Playboy.

Career after ANTM

Curry lives in Los Angeles, and has modeled for Life and Style Magazine, Stuff Magazine, People, Maxim, Marie Claire, Lucky, Macy's, Famous Stars and Straps, Beverly Hills Choppers, and Merit Diamonds. Curry appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial for Playboy in February 2006 (U.S. Version) where she was paid US$1,000,000 for the shoot.

Curry's runway shows include Anne Bowen Spring 2005, and Christopher Deane. She has appeared in a commercial for the Sirena Collection (Merit Diamonds) that ran from November 2004 to January 2005.

Curry was a co-host on the television game show Ballbreakers.

She had a cameo part in two episodes of the second season of UPN's sitcom Half & Half. ^[2]

My Fair Brady and marriage

In early 2005, Curry appeared on VH1's fourth season of The Surreal Life. During the season, Curry and fellow houseguest Christopher Knight began dating, and later moved in with each other. On September 11, 2005, VH1 began airing My Fair Brady, a show that documented their life together and paid her an estimated US$250,000. The show led her to being featured in Maxim's Hottest Women of Reality TV [1]. Knight proposed to Curry on the season finale of the show, which aired on November 6, 2005. The show was renewed for a second season, which focuses on the couple's wedding preparations. The second season began airing on VH1 in June 2006. The couple wed in Curry's hometown of Joliet on May 29, 2006 in a gothic-style wedding. Says Curry of the goth-themed ceremony, "I wanted to go as gothic as I could and as traditional as I could without ruffling anyone's feathers. ... I wanted to have a black dress ... but I knew it would break my grandmother's heart." ^[3]

Personal life

On the October 3, 2005 broadcast of the Opie and Anthony XM Satellite Radio show, Curry discussed her bisexuality and revealed numerous past relationships with women. In addition, on the January 17, 2006 broadcast of Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite Radio show, Curry discussed her sexual orientation at length, and she admitted that she previously had a heroin and cocaine addiction.

Trivia

• Curry is an animal lover
• She has several animals including 2 cats: Lucy in the sky with Diamonds a.k.a. Lucy D. and Sgt. Pepper
• Her cat, Ziggy Stardust which lived in Joliet with Adrianne's mom, died due to a car running over it on Friday June 30th 2006
• Has green eyes.
• In 2006, Curry appeared on Gameshow Marathon as a celebrity panelist on the Match Game episode.
• Is of mostly Italian heritage
• Favorite pizza place in Joliet is Mauries Table
• Has size 11 feet
• Nickname is Adri
• She is a bisexual

References

1. ^ http://www.pr.com/article/1032
2. ^ [ http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|82741|1|,00.html]
3. ^ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/05/26/christopher_knight_aamp_adrianne_curry_t

External links

• Official site
• Adrianne's ANTM portfolio
• Adrianne's MySpace
• Adrianne Curry at the Internet Movie Database
• Fashion Model Directory: Adrianne Curry