America’s Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry is opening up about how a breast implant extract changed her perception — and her life.

“Five years post breast implant explant, and I have had a total metamorphosis,” Curry, 42, wrote via X on Monday, January 6. “The first year, I wept nonstop. Had lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to get a fat transfer. I wasn’t willing to risk my health anymore for vanity. I had a crash course in being humbled and laid bare.”

A “breast implant extract,” also called a “breast implant removal” or “explant,” is a surgical procedure where a doctor removes previously placed silicone or saline breast implants, according to the Cleveland Clinic. While some people have implant removal surgery because of tissue hardening around the implant or other complications, others may have surgery to replace old implants with new ones.

Curry detailed her own grueling surgery and post-op process on Monday, sharing that her husband, Matthew Rhode, had to “cut out all my stitches due to remote living and the weather.”

“I was brought to my knees in humility and came through the fire of my vanity dying,” she continued. “It took a solid 2 years for them to settle and look human. My husband was my rock….and I can’t believe how unbothered he was by my frankentitties.”

Five years later, Curry — who won the first cycle of America’s Next Top Model back in 2003 – is “happy and healthy,” and wouldn’t “wish plastic surgery” on her “worst enemy.”

“It did nothing to ease my body dysmorphia and only gave me years of suffering,” she explained, adding, “Be OK with who and what you are. In my case, with a lot LESS of what I was.”

Following her vulnerable post, people flocked to the comments section to praise Curry for being so candid about her experience with plastic surgery. When one fan thanked the model for “sharing what I can’t imagine to be easy things to share,” Curry replied, “If I can stop anyone from mutilation of their healthy bodies with this….then it was not a wasted lesson.”

5 years post breast implant explant, and I have had a total metamorphosis. The first year, I wept nonstop. Had lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to get a fat transfer. I wasnt willing to risk my health anymore 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 was thinking of getting implants herself. “Dear god, I hope she doesn’t mutilate her body,” Curry responded.

Elsewhere in the comments section, Curry acknowledged that she holds herself “100 percent accountable” for her breast implants and for making what she sees now as “an uneducated and life changing decision.”

The former reality star also clarified that she did not get the extract because of cancer or illness, but due to “stupidity, vanity and body dysmorphia” noting she initially got the implants because half of her chest is “conclave,” but they didn’t “fix it.”

Curry rose to fame on the debut season of ANTM in 2003, where she was awarded a modeling contract, brand deals and more. After nine years in the fashion industry — and a stint VH1’s reality show My Fair Brady with first husband Christopher Knight — she walked away from the industry. She and Rhode went on to tie the knot in 2018.

Last month, Curry took to social media to reveal that she and Rhode have been living “VERY remote” for the past seven years.  “I can go months without hanging [with] anyone other than my husband,” she shared via X at the time. “My life is lived in the thundering, glorious silence of the wilderness.”

She added, “I get easily overwhelmed in large groups/cities now. It can take days to decompress from the experience.”

“I am more tuned into the earth than I ever have been in my life,” she explained. “My awareness of the forest and what is in it around me is quite sharp.”

Several hours later, Curry shared another image of her Montana paradise via Instagram, captioning the shot, “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where. You’re meant to be. It’s easy. All you need is love.”