
Willa Ford (born Amanda Lee Williford on January 22, 1981) first became popular in 2001 as the self proclaimed “Bad Girl of Pop”, when she released her debut album Willa Was Here.
The album contained the single “I Wanna Be Bad”. The album used smooth pop/R&B grooves, hot dance beats and vocoders. Despite the hit single, the album only reached #56 on the Billboard 200 album chart.She became known in 2001 as the self-proclaimed “Bad Girl of Pop,” when she released her debut album, Willa Was Here. She cites Radiohead as her biggest influence.
Aside from her music career, Ford has hosted several reality television shows, posed for Playboy, participated in the Lingerie Bowl and competed on ABC’s top-rated Dancing with the Stars. Ford also portrays Anna Nicole Smith in an upcoming TV movie about Smith’s life and death.
A Toast To Men
In 2003, Ford released a dance song called “A Toast to Men,” which featured guest rapper Lady May. The single was from her unreleased sophomore album Sexysexobsessive, which Ford originally wanted to call Porn Poetry, but Ford’s record label did not agree with her “because that’s not something that Wal-Mart will put on their shelves.”

“A Toast to Men” hit #51 on the Billboard 100, but because of legal problems, the album was not released. This caused Ford to leave the label to pursue different aspects of her career.In 2006, Will Ford was also in the TV series Dancing with the Stars and was voted out after week five of the contest.
Mini Biography
Willa Ford was born and raised in Ruskin, Florida on her parent’s farm. Her parents are Ralph Everett and Donna Sweat Williford. As a young girl, she studied opera and began pursuing a singing career at age 8, when she joined the Tampa Bay Children’s Choir.
By age 11, she had become a member of the Tampa-based Children’s Performing Arts Troupe Entertainment Revue, which consisted of 20 girls, ages 5-16, who toured the area and sang at places such as Walt Disney World Resort and Busch Gardens.
Ford advanced from the chorus to the role of featured soloist. When she was 15, she left the troupe and landed a spot with a local foursome called FLA but did not remain long before heading to Los Angeles, California.
In 1999, Ford, performing under the stage name Mandah, signed with MCA, which released her song “Lullaby” on the double platinum soundtrack Pokemon: The First Movie. She also landed a spot as an opening act for the Backstreet Boys. This not only brought her attention for her performances but also for her relationship with Backstreet Boy Nick Carter.

Soon Ford’s label had her change her stage name to Willa Ford, so as to avoid confusion with Mandy Moore, and promoted her as a beautiful singer with a “good girl” image. After negative publicity tainted her clean-cut image, MCA dropped her and let her move to a label that would embrace her “bad girl” image.
Ford appeared on an EXTRA special undergoing an “Ugly Betty Make-Over” which aired on November 2nd, 2006 on the popular entertainment news television show. Ford also did a photo-shoot for Maxim (magazine) that is out in January 2007.
Private Life
Ford dated Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys from 1998 to 2001. She has also dated Christopher Jones and UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell. While rumoured to be dating Modano, on the third episode of Dancing with the Stars, host Samantha Harris remarked to Ford and her dance partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, “Wow, you two have really fallen for each other.”
The couple looked stunned but did not deny it. In the segment preceding their Jive dance, they confirmed having “bonded way beyond the dance floor.”In an interview with ABC after the Jive performance they were prodded by a reporter about their relationship status, Ford stated, “We are not an official couple.”
Maks followed this with, “Right. Not official.”
After their elimination from Dancing with the Stars, Chmerkovskiy posted on his official Web site, “Willa and I have become very close buddies. I really like her and we are having a great time together. If you don’t mind I would like to leave it at that.”
After Thanksgiving in November 2006, he announced his intentions to withdraw from the tour and stated clearly that the pair were not dating.
Ford reported to Access Hollywood that she is in fact, engaged to Mike Modano. They had been dating on and off for the past four years excluding the year she was living with Chuck Lidell, with Ford making that announcement at the end of November.

According to an interview with Access Hollywood she stated that Modano popped the question in bed at the end of October and presented Ford with an engagement ring over Thanksgiving. She has also decided to pull out of The Tour along with Chmerkovskiy, and is opting to work on her next album.
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