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America’s next top model winner Adrianne Curry opens up about how breast implant extract changed her perception—and her life.
“Five years post breast implant explantation and I’ve gone through a total metamorphosis,” Curry, 42, wrote X on Monday, January 6. “The first year I cried non-stop. I lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to undergo fat transfer. I was no longer willing to risk my health for vanity. I had a crash course in humiliation and exposure.’
“Breast implant extract,” also called “breast implant removal” or “explant,” is a surgical procedure in which a doctor removes previously placed silicone or saline breast implants. Cleveland Clinic. While some people undergo surgery to remove the implant due to hardening of the tissue around the implant or other complications, others may undergo surgery to replace old implants with new ones.
Curry described her own grueling surgery and post-op process on Monday, sharing that her husband, Matthew Rhodehe had to “cut out all the stitches because of the remote life and the weather”.
“I was brought to my knees in humility and passed through the fire of my vanity by dying,” she continued. “It took a solid 2 years for them to settle in and look human. My husband was my rock… and I can’t believe how my honesty didn’t bother him.’
Five years later, Curry, who won the first cycle America’s next top model in 2003 – is “happy and healthy” and wouldn’t wish “plastic surgery” on her “worst enemy”.
“It did nothing to alleviate my body dysmorphia and only caused me years of suffering,” she explained, adding: “Be okay with who and what you are. In my case, with a lot LESS of what I was.’
After her vulnerable post, people flocked to the comments section to praise Curry for being so honest about her experience with plastic surgery. When one fan thanked the model for “sharing what I can’t imagine being easy to share,” Curry replied, “If I can stop someone from mutilating their healthy bodies with this….then it wasn’t a wasted lesson.” “
5 years after breast implant explantation and I had a complete metamorphosis. The first year I cried non-stop. I lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to undergo fat transfer. I no longer wanted to risk my health for vanity. I had a crash course in being… pic.twitter.com/bXZCTOQeWd
— Adrianne Curry (@AdrianneCurry) January 6, 2025
A second person revealed that they sent Curry’s post to their daughter, who herself was thinking about getting implants. “Dear God, I hope he doesn’t mutilate his body,” Curry replied.
Elsewhere in the comments section, Curry admitted that she was “100% responsible” for her breast implants and what she now considers an “uneducated and life-altering decision.”
The former reality star also clarified that she didn’t get the extract because of cancer or illness, but because of “stupidity, vanity and body dysmorphia,” noting that she originally got implants because half of her chest is “conclave,” but she didn’t get it. t “fix.”
Curry became famous in the first season ANTM in 2003 where she landed a modeling contract, brand deals and more. After nine years in the fashion industry — and a stint on a VH1 reality show My Fair Brady with her first husband Christopher Knight — retired from the industry. She and Rhode continued to be locked in 2018.
Last month, Curry took to social media to reveal that she and Rhode had been living “VERY distant” for the past seven years. “I can go months without being with anyone other than my husband,” she shared via X at the time. “My life is lived in the stormy, beautiful silence of the wilderness.”
She added: “I get overwhelmed easily in big groups/cities now. It can take days to decompress from the experience.”
“I’m more attuned to the Earth than I’ve ever been in my life,” she explained. “My awareness of the forest and what’s around me in it is pretty sharp.
Hours later, Curry shared another picture of her Montana paradise on Instagram, captioning the shot, “There’s nowhere you can be. You should be. It’s easy. All you need is love.”
