AMERICA’S Next Top Model star and Season 1 winner Adrienne Curry has revealed that her implants rotted her natural breasts, leaving her with “frankenboobs” and “dead flesh.”
Adrienne, 42, shared graphic photos of her painful journey with implants and spoke about her decision to have them removed, warning others against what she says are the dangers behind the surgery.
The 42-year-old reflected on what prompted her to get the implants in the first place in an exclusive video interview with The U.S. Sun.
“I was young, and my boobs were absolutely perfect. I had a full, full B, small C, and I felt like they were fine, but I always I knew I had a genetic defect that was way more noticeable when I had no boobs, because my brother has it too – the right side of my chest is concave. It looks like someone ran and kicked me in the chest,” she explained.
“Because of this deformity, I was approved for silicone implants before they were allowed, again because it was considered a deformity, I was fine with it and being in LA everyone had boob jobs.”
Adrianne said she was fine with how her breasts were until a guy she was dating made a disparaging comment that festered in her psyche.
“I started to feel like I wasn’t good enough, which I wish I could go back in time and strangle myself because, like, what? Like I look at young me, and I’m like, you b***h I’d give anything to look like you for now,” she said.
“But, I jumped in, and I got it, and I was stoked because of that deformity thing, that I was able to get silicone when no one else could because it wasn’t on the market yet.
“I will say that plastic surgeons do not educate you on the risks. they breeze by everything, they act like you won’t ever have them.”
Adrienne explained that despite her breast augmentation being done by “the best of the best” in Beverly Hills and spending $15,000 in 2006, her body immediately rejected them.
“I had extensive nerve damage. I couldn’t lift my arms without pain because they cut your pectoral muscle, and they rip it off your rib cage, and they cram an implant partially under it to look real,” she said.
Adrienne added that she had no idea how the implant would impact her overall health and claimed wasn’t informed about how it could change her athletic abilities.
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“No one told me, If you’re a super athlete, like I consider myself, that its not going to be good, because you’re more developed,” she said.
“It permanently deformed my pectoral muscles, and my right boob bottomed out, so it looked like Total Recall with the three titty chick.
“So for $15,000 I got three titties, and I couldn’t do push-ups anymore, pull-ups, and I was in pain all the time.”
Adrienne said she went back to the surgeon and said she wanted them out, but she was instead talked into a revision of her implants for another $15,000, which she got done sometime between 2007 and 2008.
“I gotta tell everyone, like, if your body rejects implants immediately, it’s probably going to do it again.
“Being young and naive, I got talked into the revision, and I immediately had capsular contracture within like a year or two, where your body forms scar tissue all around the implants.”
Adrienne said at that point, she was dealing with loss aversion, having now sunk $30,000 on her breasts.
Despite going through the costly revision, Adrienne claimed, “They were awful, they were never warm, because I have no body fat, so if it was cold outside, my boobs would be ice cold.”
“It would hit the side of my arm, and it would not feel like my body, I lost all feeling in my nipples, and I started pretending like I loved them because I didn’t want to admit to everybody that I had butchered my body,” she said.
PAINFUL AWAKENING
Adrienne started lying to herself to try to make herself believe she could make her implants more manageable if she attended to them more, she told The U.S. Sun.
Ultimately though, Adrienne knew something was wrong, despite several doctors telling her her implants were fine and there were no leaks.
When she finally had her explant surgery to remove the implants in January 2020, her worst fears and suspicions were realized.
Adrienne Curry’s rise to fame
ADRIENNE Curry won the first season of America’s Next Top Model, but has since turned her back on showbiz and headed into the Montana Rockies with just her husband, Matthew Rhode, for company.
As soon as her name had been announced by America’s Next Top Model host Tyra Banks, Adrienne was able to enjoy a successful career in the public eye.
She modeled for numerous magazine covers and brands, including Playboy and Von Dutch, and starred in the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life.
The first season of America’s Next Top Model premiered in 2003.
Two years later, Adrianne joined the cast of The Surreal Life for the fourth season and went on to marry her house guest Christopher Knight.
The pair went on to star in their own spin-off called My Fair Brady and married in 2006. They divorced seven years later.
“They found that my right implant had been ruptured for a long time, but that the scar tissue had kept it in, and it was still slow leaking, and this leakage compromised all my natural breast tissue around it, and it died, causing necrosis, which I call them zombie titties.”
When she woke up from the explant surgery, Adrienne was dealt another stunning blow.
“The doctor had to remove all my dead flesh, so I don’t know this is happening in surgery, and I wake up and she was like ‘I had to do a breast reduction,'” she said.
“And I thought ‘Oh, I’m f**ked up on meds, I’m misunderstanding her.
“And she’s, like, ‘I had to take like, 90% of your left breasts because so much was compromised in your right that you would have just had one big breast.’ Because I had nice tits before I went in.”
“So it would have been nice, but she had to get rid of it, and I have a picture of my fat blob on the table that she had to remove.
“It was a lot to deal with. I’m mentally sitting there, like, did I just almost, essentially, have a mastectomy?”
“I just lost my tits for real. That’s what happened. Because of vanity,” Adrienne said incredulously.
That night, after her implant removal, Adrienne developed a dangerous hematoma and needed emergency surgery that same day.
“It was really rough,” she said.
HOLLYWOOD IN THE REARVIEW
Adrienne, who now lives in the remote mountains of Montana with her husband Matthew Rhode, said getting rid of her Hollywood implants wasn’t the only vestige of her former life to find the exit in her procedure.
“What’s funny is I funded the surgery by selling every single nice thing I had ever acquired from Hollywood for cheap, be it my wedding ring set, diamonds my ex gave me when he f**ked up, gowns, you name it, I sold it all on eBay for nothing, and I funded the whole surgery that way,” she said.
“The way I looked at it is my fans got to get nice jewelry and stuff on the cheap, like s**t they’d never be able to afford, and I was able to cover my tit job in the same day.”
While Adrienne is ultimately thankful she was finally able to get her implants out, she said, “It took a long time to be okay with what my body looked like too, because I was expecting to still have some tits.”
She also credits her husband for being by her side throughout the ordeal and for even removing her stitches for her after the surgery.
