Former AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL winner Adrianne Curry said a quiet night beneath Montana’s stars brought her years of resistance to Jesus to an end.
“Jesus, you’re real, aren’t you?” she recalled asking during an interview with “Out of Focus” podcast host and model Shannon Stewart. Curry said she fell to her knees, alone in the mountains, and experienced a clarity she could no longer dismiss.
The conversation reunited two women who once competed for the same modeling title. Stewart finished runner-up on the show’s first season; Curry won in 2003 and built a career in modeling and reality television before leaving the spotlight in 2015, according to her official biography.
Today, Curry’s life revolves around her online Avon business, cooking, hiking and the Montana home she shares with her husband, Matthew. But in the interview, the former model described a change that went much deeper than trading Los Angeles for mountain trails.
For years, Curry said, she rejected God so fiercely that even a family member’s request to pray over Thanksgiving dinner bothered her. Her grandmother, who helped raise her, kept loving her and praying anyway.
Curry recalled her grandmother sending newspaper clippings about miracles and refusing to give up on her, even when Curry mocked what she believed. Looking back, she sees that patient, persistent love differently now: not as an intrusion, but as an example of the faith she once resisted.
When Stewart asked whether she believed she was living in the fruit of her grandmother’s prayers, Curry said yes. She remembered the effort her grandmother poured into praying for someone who repeatedly pushed faith away.
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“I know that she probably prayed for me harder than anyone on earth,” Curry said. Her grandmother’s selflessness stayed with her long after her death.
Curry dated that loss to 2014 and described it as the beginning of a gradual reopening to God. She placed her Montana turning point in 2020, when she stood outside on her porch and looked at the Milky Way.
Surrounded by the mountains and night sky, she said, she found herself confronting the beauty she had spent years overlooking. Her account brings to mind Psalm 19:1, which describes the heavens declaring God’s glory.
Curry said that sense of wonder has carried into ordinary days. A flower or a grasshopper can stop her in her tracks now, prompting her to look closely at details she once would have hurried past.
Faith has also changed how she handles regret. Rather than endlessly replaying her mistakes, Curry said she needs God’s love and forgiveness to help her stop punishing herself.
“I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself,” she said, explaining what her life would look like without God’s love. She described surrendering burdens she cannot carry on her own to Jesus.
She also spoke about deliberately taking stock of her blessings: her husband, her cats, another day of life and the small things that bring peace. Gratitude, she said, has given her a better way to live than dwelling on everything she lacks.
Asked who Jesus is to her today, Curry described the strength she had relied on while denying its source. Her answer also carried a new assurance about the future.
“Jesus is who I know will be there,” she said. The woman whose grandmother kept praying now speaks openly about the Savior she once refused to acknowledge.
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