Top Model Adrianne Curry Reveals Real Montana Life

Adrianne Curry, who won the very first season of America’s Next Top Model, has swapped couture for Carhartt. Now living near Whitefish, she has used TikTok as a platform to offer her followers a brutally honest view of what it’s really like to live in Montana. And spoiler alert, it doesn’t look anything like the postcards.

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Through the laughter in her video, Curry sympathizes with us: sometimes she loses cell service for an hour, drives 90 minutes to get to the nearest Costco, and carries a saw in her car “because when that tree falls over on the road.” The power blinks off a few times each month, snow can pin her at home for weeks, and when she calls the plumber, six months is typical.

Welcome to the Off-Grid Life

Everyone loves romanticizing Big Sky Country until they find out you can’t DoorDash propane. “Montana isn’t for influencers or for people who need same-day Amazon deliveries to survive,” Curry says. It’s for people who can dig themselves out...Literally.

@adriannecurryrhode think you want to live by Yellowstone or Glacier Nationsl Park? what its really like living in Montana. #montanalife #montana #bigsky #antm #bigskycountry ♬ original sound - Adrianne Curry

She’s discovered that winter here doesn’t care who you were on TV. Pipes freeze, snow piles higher than your car, and “neighborly help” usually means your neighbor waves as he plows his own driveway before getting to yours. She even jokes about how it’s so cold she can go outside in shorts when it’s 30 degrees. The real way to know you’re a local.

Montana: Beautiful, Brutal, and Honest

You find your peace out here. You cut your own firewood, plow your own road, and stock up like you’re preparing for a zombie movie.

Montana isn’t a lifestyle aesthetic. I like to think of it as survival with a view. And I think Adrianne Curry may have found the truest kind of beauty there is. A quiet home in the woods.