She additionally received a stunned response from Bethenny Frankel, whereas showing as a visitor on her Simply B podcast earlier this week, when she advised her, “I used to be the one winner that received no cash. Zero {dollars}.”

The mannequin went on to elucidate, “There was no cash in my win. I received a title,” Curry mentioned. Curry claimed that in filming the contestants have been promised a marketing campaign with Revlon, however that promise was edited out earlier than it aired.”

Of their protection of the interview, Individuals notes that Curry advised Leisure Weekly in 2023 that she did obtain $15,000 from Revlon after her 2003 win, in addition to a contract with Wilhelmina fashions. Nevertheless, in a 2017 weblog put up, she mentioned that Wilhelmina dumped her after the present switched to IMG for Season 2 — the brand new proprietor’s firm was skeptical this occurred in a 2023 assertion to EW.

Speaking with Frankel this week, Curry mentioned that Banks advised the forged the winner was “gonna be this enormous Revlon like celebrity.” She mentioned, “I do not assume any of us would have fought as onerous as we did for what the prize actually was, which is the title.”

Curry added, “I all the time joke as a result of persons are like, ‘You continue to name your self America’s Subsequent High Mannequin?’ I am like, ‘It is the one f–king factor I received. I am gonna put it on my tombstone.’”

Elsewhere within the podcast, Frankel requested Curry concerning the so-called “actuality reckoning” of 2020, that noticed the therapy of contestants on a number of actuality reveals referred to as into query. It was presently that Banks publicly apologized after a few of her personal previous feedback to contestants resurfaced on social media.

“Been seeing the posts concerning the insensitivity of some previous ‘ANTM’ moments and I agree with you,” Banks posted in Could of that yr. “Trying again, these have been some actually off decisions. Respect your sincere suggestions and am sending a lot love and digital hugs.”

As for Curry, she did not see it the identical as many followers on the time: “Everybody wished me to canine pile on Tyra Banks when 2020 was occurring and everybody was getting pissed, And I used to be like, no, as a result of if anybody has a proper to be mad at her, it is me. And I am over it. I do not give a s–t anymore.”

“What she taught me was the reality of leisure,” Curry mentioned of that first season that made her a star. “It is cutthroat. You may’t belief all people and everyone seems to be mendacity to you.”

It is actually a brutal lesson, however Curry mentioned it was “a fantastic lesson” to be taught so early in her profession. She additionally understood what the present was for Banks, noting it “was simply an avenue for her to propel herself into one thing else after she aged out at modeling.”

“I see that now,” she mentioned, including, “And if I can let it go, everybody else can.”

You may learn Banks’ newer feedback about her ANTM legacy right here.

Whereas Curry is ready to mirror on her actuality tv begin and supply some grace to Banks, she’s received far much less grace in hand for the fourth or fifth choose of any actuality present: the viewers.

“It was humorous as a result of everybody’s like, ‘Oh, she did this, she did that,’” Curry mentioned, referring to Banks. “However then I’d have a look at the individuals who watch the present, and I am like, ‘Yeah, however you watched it. You made it fashionable. It is your fault, too.’”

It is the concept tv — and actuality tv, specifically — is nearly giving the viewers an increasing number of of what they need. Frankel mentioned she feels the same sentiment in the case of Actual Housewives viewers.

However occasions have modified previously 20 years, with Curry speaking about the way it’s even impacted the modeling trade. When she began, she mentioned she was all the time advised “that I must tone it the f–k down, that it isn’t about me or who I’m. Simply shut the f–k up and do my job.”

That restriction of her id and persona is a part of what pushed her into actuality tv. Simply 2 years after her ANTM win, Curry would seem on Season 4 of The Surreal Life.

“I used to be like, fantastic. I will go earn money being who I’m because you folks assume I must shut the eff up and cease being me,” she advised Frankel.

Since then, although, actuality tv has developed and social media has taken over all the things. Now, Curry says the modeling trade — like a lot of the leisure and humanities — is about influencers and is “personality-driven.”