What Happened to Adrianne Curry? Off the Grid in Montana in 2026

In 2003, a 20-year-old waitress from Joliet, Illinois walked onto a brand-new reality competition and walked off as the first-ever winner of America’s Next Top Model. For a few years after that, Adrianne Curry was everywhere — magazine covers, the Maxim Hot 100, a VH1 marriage to a Brady Bunch star, and a reputation for saying exactly what she thought. Then she basically vanished from the entertainment world on purpose. So where is she now? The short answer in 2026 is: about as far from a Hollywood red carpet as a person can get, living a deliberately remote life in rural Montana — and, when Netflix came calling about a documentary on the show that made her famous, she said no. Here’s the full story.

01Profile

Full name

Adrianne Marie Curry

Born

August 6, 1982 (43 years old)

Birthplace

Joliet, Illinois, USA

Occupation

Former model and reality TV personality; Avon seller and online creator

Best known for

Winning Cycle 1 of America's Next Top Model (2003); the VH1 series My Fair Brady

Spouse

Matthew Rhode (married 2018); previously Christopher Knight (2006–2011)

Lives in

Rural Montana, USA

If you remember Curry only from the mid-2000s tabloid era, the current version of her life can be a genuine surprise. The woman who once traded one-liners on reality TV now describes a life lived, in her own words, in “the thundering, glorious silence of the wilderness.”

02The Rise: From Waitress to Reality Star

Winning the very first ANTM

Curry came from a working-class background and was supporting herself as a waitress when she auditioned for the debut season of America’s Next Top Model. At 5’10” with striking green eyes, she beat out runner-up Shannon Stewart to win Cycle 1 in 2003 at age 20. The prize package was substantial on paper: a modeling contract with Wilhelmina Models, a photo spread in Marie Claire, and a deal with Revlon. Curry parlayed the win into real modeling work over the next few years, appearing in magazines including Maxim — where she made the Hot 100 list in 2005 — Stuff, People and others, and shooting campaigns for brands like Von Dutch and Ed Hardy.

The My Fair Brady years

Curry’s bigger cultural moment arguably came from a different reality franchise. She met The Brady Bunch actor Christopher Knight on VH1’s The Surreal Life, and their relationship became the subject of the spin-off My Fair Brady, which began airing in September 2005. According to reporting, the show paid her an estimated $450,000. Curry and Knight married in 2006. The couple announced their separation and filed for divorce in 2011 — facts both have publicly acknowledged.

03Stepping Away

The throughline of Curry’s story is that she chose, deliberately and repeatedly, to move toward more solitude rather than chase more fame. Here is how that played out.

• 2003Wins the first cycle of America's Next Top Model and launches a modeling and TV career.
• 2005–06Stars in VH1's My Fair Brady with Christopher Knight; the two marry in 2006.
• 2011Curry and Knight announce their separation and file for divorce.
• 2015Meets voice actor and Twitch streamer Matthew Rhode; the two move from Los Angeles toward a quieter life.
• 2018Relocates to Montana "craving even greater solitude," and marries Rhode in a private ceremony in Glacier National Park.
• 2026Publicly declines to appear in Netflix's ANTM documentary, citing distrust of how her words might be edited.

Curry has been candid that walking away was a choice, not a fade-out. By her own account she grew disillusioned with the industry that launched her — including, famously, with the prize behind her ANTM win. According to Curry, the Revlon opportunity she expected never materialized as promised: she has said she was paid a relatively small amount to privately model makeup for executives rather than front a public campaign, and she has long maintained that the show overstated what the winner would actually get. Those are her characterizations of events; ANTM’s producers have not corroborated her version, and it should be read as her side of a years-old dispute rather than an established fact.

04A Very Remote Life in Montana

The biggest change in Curry’s life is geographic — and it’s drastic. After leaving Los Angeles, she and Rhode eventually settled in rural Montana in 2018, in part, she has said, because she was “craving even greater solitude.” This is not a celebrity’s weekend ranch. By her own description, the isolation is the whole point.

Her husband, Matthew Rhode, is an American voice actor whose work has included trailers, commercials and video-game projects; he is also known online as a Twitch streamer under the handle “Ducksauce.” In a November 2025 Instagram post, Curry noted that Rhode had stepped back from social media for years and at one point was using only a flip phone — a small detail that says a lot about the couple’s relationship to the always-online world they used to inhabit.

In 2026 coverage, several outlets described Curry as a “prepper,” framing her remote, self-reliant lifestyle in those terms. What’s documented is her own portrait of a life built around quiet and distance from the public eye. As she put it in a widely quoted December 2024 post on X:

“The last seven years, I have lived VERY remote. I can go months without hanging [with] anyone other than my husband. My life is lived in the thundering, glorious silence of the wilderness.” — Adrianne Curry, on X (December 2024)

That is about as clear a statement of intent as a former reality star can make. The red carpets, the tabloid features, the constant availability — all of it got traded for mountains, silence and a flip phone in the next room.

05What She Is Doing Now

Selling Avon and creating online — on her terms

Curry hasn’t disappeared entirely; she’s simply set the terms. Rather than model professionally, she now earns a living in part as an Avon seller and as an online creator, sharing what’s been described as beauty tips, life reflections, and her thoughts on aging naturally and on womanhood. It’s a far smaller, more self-directed operation than the magazine-cover career she once had — and that appears to be exactly how she wants it. She remains active on Instagram (@adriannecurry) and X (@AdrianneCurry), where she posts on her own schedule rather than as part of any larger media machine.

Saying “hard pass” to Netflix

The reason Curry is back in headlines in 2026 has nothing to do with a comeback. When Netflix prepared a documentary series revisiting America’s Next Top Model — reported to land in February 2026 and to examine the show’s cultural impact, controversies and behind-the-scenes realities — Curry, the franchise’s very first winner, declined to take part. She made her reasons public on X in late January 2026.

“I don’t trust people to not manipulate things I say for tv, so i decline everything.” — Adrianne Curry, on X (January 26, 2026)

In the same stretch of posts, she argued that “people psychoanalyzing it over 20 years later with a woke lens is absurd,” criticizing the framing she expected the documentary to take. She also voiced concern for the participants who did appear, writing that she hoped “the other girls do not have their words twisted in their Netflix show.” Outlets reported her stance as having “zero trust” in the project and summarized her response to the invitation as a flat “hard pass.” Whatever one makes of her language, her position is consistent with the choice she’s been making for years: control the narrative by stepping out of someone else’s.

06Summary

Adrianne Curry’s arc is the rare reality-TV story that doesn’t end in a comeback attempt. She got the fame, decided it wasn’t for her, and built a deliberately small, remote life instead — and in 2026 she’s still defending the right to be left alone.

For someone who once seemed built for the spotlight, Curry has spent the better part of two decades engineering a life with as little of it as possible. In 2026, the woman who won America’s Next Top Model isn’t chasing the next opportunity — she’s turning them down from a mountain in Montana, and she’ll tell you exactly why.