The Blueprint | EP 2
Curse of: America’s Next Top Model
iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Cycle 1 was messy, low-rent, and groundbreaking. It was also the blueprint for everything ANTM would become. It introduced us to the larger-than-life personalities that became synonymous with the show. Cycle 1 also laid the groundwork for the body shaming, humiliation, and on-screen drama that made ANTM iconic. From the beginning, ANTM loved a Cinderella story. While Cycle 1 winner Adrianne Curry may have gotten the crown, she didn’t get her happily ever after.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | Would Adrian and Shannon come in, please? |
| 0:07.3 | It's July 8, 2003. |
| 0:09.8 | An America's Next Top Model is about to crown its first ever winner. |
| 0:14.1 | The judges have reached a decision. |
| 0:16.8 | One of you is about to be a star. |
| 0:18.9 | After weeks of watching 10, then 9, then 8, and finally the last two women, |
| 0:23.6 | be transformed into poise supermodels, the most deserving young woman was about to have all her dreams come true. |
| 0:30.6 | Let me remind you what's at stake. A contract with Revlon, a fashion spread in Marie Claire magazine, |
| 0:36.6 | and representation by top modeling agency, Willamina. |
| 0:41.7 | The two finalists, Adrian Curry and Shannon Stewart, were standing there because they desperately |
| 0:46.6 | wanted to become top models. They were, of course, both tall, thin, and pretty. But Shannon, |
| 0:53.1 | with her blue eyes, blonde hair, and tan skin, |
| 0:56.0 | had a more obvious beauty that gave all-American supermodel. |
| 0:59.8 | Adrian, with her pale skin and dark hair, had a more gothic look. |
| 1:04.2 | A bit like her early 2000s Angelina Jolie, minus the lips. |
| 1:08.4 | Shannon and Adrian were both so young, 18 and 20. |
| 1:12.5 | Shannon had never traveled without her family before. |
| 1:15.5 | And for Adrian, this opportunity was her ticket out of a small, dead-in town. |
| 1:19.9 | The winner's picture is hanging behind me. |
| 1:25.2 | And when the claw this dropped, |
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