“Top Model” Winner Adrianne Curry Details Breast Implant Explant Journey: ‘The First Year, I Wept Nonstop’

Adrianne Curry-Rhode is marking an important milestone on her journey to self-love.

On Monday, Jan 6, the former model, 42, who won cycle 1 of America's Next Top Model, reflected on the "total metamorphosis" she's gone through during the five years since her breast implant explant surgery.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, the procedure involves removing silicone or saline implants. While some may opt to undergo the procedure for personal reasons, others do so after facing health complications, such as hardening of the tissue around the implant.

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In her post, shared on Instagram and X, Curry-Rhode celebrated the five-year mark since her breast implant removal by detailing her healing journey.

"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," she wrote. "I had a crash course in being humbled and laid bare."

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The former reality star, who married Matthew Rhode in 2018, expressed how he was important to her growth.

"My husband had to cut out all my stitches, due to our remote living and the weather. I was brought to my knees in humility and came through the fire of my vanity dying. It took a solid 2 years for them to settle and look human," she wrote. "My husband was my rock....and I can't believe how unbothered he was by my frankentitties."

Looking back at the process, Curry-Rhode has no regrets.

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"I am happy and healthy, and I wouldn't wish plastic surgery on my WORST enemy. It did nothing to ease my body dysmorphia and only gave me years of suffering," she wrote. "Be OK with who and what you are. In my case, with a lot LESS of what I was."

Last July, PEOPLE caught up with Curry-Rhode, who said that she's "found peace with the earth and myself" since leaving Hollywood for a quieter life in Montana.

"I left and I make a hell of a lot less money, but I feel like I have my dignity, my soul. I felt like from when I won Top Model to that point that a lot of me had been chipped away," she said.

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"And it's like every year you chip another piece off and you're like, 'Well, I won't miss this little piece,' just to keep it going," she continued.

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