April 17, 2007

Willa Ford Packs on 80 Pounds to Play Anna Nicole Smith

She was one of the heavenly bodies on last season’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

But now Willa Ford is undergoing a dramatic transformation, packing on the pounds to play Anna Nicole Smith.

After nailing the audition and dying her hair platinum blonde, Willa Ford dished she has finally come into the world of the late Playboy bunny, model and reality TV star.

“The bigger she got, the less she wanted to move,” she said of Anna.

Now Willa is going one on one with “Extra” about winning the role of Smith in the new big screen biopic about her tragic life.

“I seem to play a really good doped up Anna,” Willa joked, adding, “The key to doing it is honestly just becoming as lazy as you possibly can.”

Filming for the flick started this week, and Willa told us she has been hard at work studying the signature Anna slur.

“Think lazy, don’t move; she didn’t want to move her mouth sometimes, that’s why she slurred so many times,” she revealed.

While Willa perfects Anna’s mannerisms, she is going to need some movie magic to capture Anna’s bigger-than-life look on screen.

“Anna Nicole was 5’11, 160 in her good days,” Willa said. “I’m 5’7, 120… so, clearly, there’s a huge difference.”

The singer-turned-actress is using prosthetics and a fat suit to pack on 80 pounds, but Willa admitted that it is not an easy task.

“It’s like I’m sweating in there; I’m going to lose another 10 pounds playing this part; they’re going to have to keep throwing cheeseburgers in me,” she joked.

And the food better be coming, otherwise Willa won’t be able to wear her beautiful eye-popping engagement ring from her pro-hockey husband-to-be, Mike Modano.

But when is their big day?

“Maybe this summer, maybe next summer,” Ford said. “It’s going to be quick and simple; I’m not a Bridezilla.”

But right now it’s all about getting her new Anna Nicole role just right: “This is my first big film, and it’s quite the pants to fill… literally!”


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On 9 Feb 2008, Rnadall Farquharson wrote:

The truth is, I do not know what killed her but, I must say “she was a true celebrity and may her soul rest in peace”. BLESSINGS…

 
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On 9 Oct 2007, Anonymous wrote:

Well, i think that interview was horrible. You would think that the movie was going to be a spoof of her life. Maybe I am old fashioned, but what ever happened to respecting people. Ok, Anna had problems but do not make fun of her. I grew up respecting people who have passed away. Her life and all of the things she went through, it is really sad. Willa Ford, just needs some good old fashioned manners. She was making fun of Anna, and making her self look like a rear end!

 
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On 7 Jul 2007, Pixie wrote:

I think Jen McCarthy would be perfect for Anna Nicole Smith role. Willa Ford is way too stuck on herself. Jen is a naturally loveable person and would do ANS justice.

 
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On 7 Jul 2007, an anna fan always!! wrote:

my comment is plain and simple,willow ford cant act she is a hateful rude nasty hoe thinks she can act….WRONG,she is the only one who thinks it,anna was a beautiful lady with a life cut to short,god has her and daniel now and they can both rest and relax away from anyone wanting to hurt them,i was brought up that you never talk ill of the dead,let them r.i.p.,i think anna had a good heart and soul but just got lost along the way,she is being taken care of now,willow is a washed up want-a be,she cant act cant sing hell can really do anything so she must look at her ugly self everyday and ask herself how she has the balls to talk about the dead,may they haunt her forever!!!!!

 
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On 6 Jul 2007, weezie wrote:

REST IN PEACE ANNA, & DANIEL… HOWARD PEACE BE STILL, YOU ARE LOVED ! I HOPE YOU WILL BE GODFATHER; ” UNCLE HOWIE ” TO DANNIELYNN HOPE , AND PAPA LARRY , DANIELYNN IS GOD’S GIFT TO YOU LOVE HER WITH ALL YOU’VE GOT !
…..GOD REIGNS…………

 
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On 6 Jul 2007, teresa-anna bigggest fan wrote:

NOBODY BUT NOBODY KNOWS PAIN LIKE I DO AND ANNA DID!SHE WAS NOT A GOLD DIGGER, SHE ONLY WANTED BETTER IN LIFE THAN THE TRAILER PARK AND JIM BOB WHOEVER. BEFORE PEOPLE GET ALL NASTY ON ME, I WAS RAISED TRAILER TRASH SO I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT, I DID THE SAME THING TO STAY OUT, NOTHING WRONG WITH IT AND MY KIDS HAVE HAD A WAY BETTER LIFE THAN I DID! I ALSO HAD THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW IN MY FAMILY, MOST OF THEM SEE ONLY ONE WAY—THEIR WAY—LIKE I SAID I SHOULD KNOW FROM GROWING UP AROUND IT. MY BROTHER WAS A SHERIFF, CHIEF OF POLICE AND THEN RETIRED, ONLY TO GO BACK AS A DETECTIVE. HE MADE ME HATE MYSELF. HE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I DID NOT DESERVE TO LIVE OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN BORNE JUST BECAUSE I DID NOT AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE LIKED. I WAS A RAGING ALCOHOLIC FROM MY TEENAGE YEARS ON TILL 3 YEARS WHEN I FINALLY WAS ABLE TO ACCEPT ME FOR ME. I SUPPOSE A GOLD DIGGER IS ANYONE WHO WANTS A BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES. WELL HELL LADY, WE ARE ALL GOLD DIGGERS THEN. EVEN THOUGH I SOBERED UP TO HAVE MY KIDS, MY DOCTORS—ALL 4 DIFFERENT ONES TOLD ME IT WAS OK FOR PREGNANT WOMEN TO TAKE SOME NARCOTICS DEPENDING ON WHICH PART OF THE PREGNANCY SHE IS IN! OH DID I TELL YOU I HAVE TO TAKE 2—30MGS OF ROXICODONE 3 TIMES A DAY, 350 MGS OF SOMA A DAY AND SO ON AND SO ON. MY PRESCRIPTION LIST LOOKS LIKE A PHARMACIST GROCERY LIST! I SLUR ALOT WORDS!I SIMPLY CANNOT STAND PEOPLE WHO ARE AS IGNORANT AS THIS VICKY PERSON—-YOU NEED TO THE FACTS STRAIGHT NOT US!

 
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On 6 Jul 2007, Jeanne From Pa wrote:

Willa You are a want a be Anna, She had more class than you will ever have Howard we all love you,God bless your heart,KeepDannylynn in your life! You are a good man

 
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On 6 Jul 2007, karry smith wrote:

Geezzz. No one walked Anna’s walk. I do not know this willa person, and Anna was not fat. Poor Anna and her son. What a life she must of led. God rest their souls.

 
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On 6 Jul 2007, WILLASTARSSUCK wrote:

I love hockey and hockey players/fans/etc… However, I must say this… Mike Modano and Willa Ford most definitely deserve each other. I have been to dinner with several players/wives/etc… Having worked in the main office and Mike is a very rude, boorish, unkind man.. I have personally witnessed him making fun of people at other tables, comments and become loud, obnoxious and drunk… Ed Belfour at least when drunk was never unkind to other people, Mike needs to grow up and with his choice of a bride, I can see he clearly HAS NOT.


SO true….Mike is a total jerk off and she is the perfect fake they match.

 
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On 5 Jul 2007, sissyannm wrote:

I DOTN KNOW WHAT THIS VIVKY SAID BUT VICKY DONT QUIT POSTING..THIS IS TO SAY WHAT WE FEEL AND WHETHER WE LIKE WHAT YOU SAY..I SAY OR OTHERS..ITS OUR RIGHTS TO STATE OUR OPINIONS..THIS IS WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND.. SOME LIKED ANNA AND SOME DIDNT…BUT FOR A PERSON TO TAKE ALOT OF MONEY..TO BE ANNA THEN I FEEL THIS WILTED WILDA NEEDS TO SHUT HER BIG MOUTH AND DO THE JOB SHES PAID TO DO..
SPECUALATION INO ANNAS DEATH..AND ANNAS LIFE FROMW HAT WEVE SEEN OF HER ON THE SCREEN AND IN INTERVIEWS .. IS ONE THING..BUT TO SAY THINGS THAT NONE OF US HAVE FACTS ON..LIKE HER MOTHER SITUATION AND BEING LAZY ETC.. THEN I DONT FEEL ITS FAIR.. AND VICKY AND ALL ITS A SAD DAY WHEN WE CME TO A COLUMN TO SAY OUR OPINIONS AND OTHERS RIDICULE US TO WHERE ONES LIKE YOURSELF WONT POST ANYMORE..IS A VERY SAD DAY
TAKE THE NEGATIVE REMARKS AND THE GOOD ONES AND JUST GO ON.. WE DONT KNWO THESE OTHERS WHO POST NASTY REMARKS ABOUT OUR OPINIONS AND WE WONT HEAR FROM THEM AGAIN PROBABLY..SO JUST TAKE THOSE AND THEIR NASTY REMARKS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT…

 
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On 5 Jul 2007, sissyannm wrote:

I DONT KNW WHO THIS WILTED WILDA THINKS SHE IS BUT SHES ABOUT THE LOWEST OF LIFE IVE EVER SEEN.. ID TAKE ANNA OVER THIS LOOSER.. SHE SEEMS TO THINK SHES THE ONLY THING GOD PUT ON THIS EARTH AS FAR AS A WOMAN IS CONCERNED.. SHE SAID NASTY THINGS ABOUT ANNAS MOTHER AND WHY SHE WASNT ON THE SHOW..WITHOUT KNOWING ALL THE FACTS..SHE WENT BY GOSSIP AND RUMORS… SHES SAID NASTY THINGS ABOUT ANNA AND YET PLAYS ANNA AND GLADLY WILL TAKE THE MONEY FOR DOING SO.. WHERE DOES HOLLYWOOOD PICK UP THESE LOOSERS?? LIKE PARIS..WILTED WILDA..LOHEN AND THE BEAST OF THEM ALL BRITTNEY SPEARS.. GOD LIKE THEIR LIVES ARE SOOOO PERFERCT.. THEIR LIVES ARE SO PERFECT AT FAILING..USING..LIEING AND CHEATING.. CLEAN OUR OW DAM CLOSETS BEFORE YA TRY TO CLEAN OTHERS!!! UM YOUR ALL PLASTERED ALL OVER THE MEDIA AND NEWS..ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL THE MEAN..NASTY SKANKS YA ALL ARE.. SO DONT JUDGE ANYONE ELSE!!

 
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On 5 Jul 2007, sissyannm wrote:

I DONT KNW WHO THIS WILTED WILDA THINKS SHE IS BUT SHES ABOUT THE LOWEST OF LIFE IVE EVER SEEN.. ID TAKE ANNA OVER THIS LOOSER.. SHE SEEMS TO THINK SHES THE ONLY THING GOD PUT ON THIS EARTH AS FAR AS A WOMAN IS CONCERNED.. SHE SAID NASTY THINGS ABOUT ANNAS MOTHER AND WHY SHE WASNT ON THE SHOW..WITHOUT KNOWING ALL THE FACTS..SHE WENT BY GOSSIP AND RUMORS… SHES SAID NASTY THINGS ABOUT ANNA AND YET PLAYS ANNA AND GLADLY WILL TAKE THE MONEY FOR DOING SO.. WHERE DOES HOLLYWOOOD PICK UP THESE LOOSERS?? LIKE PARIS..WILTED WILDA..LOHEN AND THE BEAST OF THEM ALL BRITTNEY SPEARS.. GOD LIKE THEIR LIVES ARE SOOOO PERFERCT.. THEIR LIVES ARE SO PERFECT AT FAILING..USING..LIEING AND CHEATING.. CLEAN OUR OW DAM CLOSETS BEFORE YA TRY TO CLEAN OTHERS!!! UM YOUR ALL PLASTERED ALL OVER THE MEDIA AND NEWS..ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL THE MEAN..NASTY SKANKS YA ALL ARE.. SO DONT JUDGE ANYONE ELSE!!

 
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On 5 Jul 2007, Paulette wrote:

I was not one who watched the, Anna Nicole Show, but I did feel a sense of sadness when I found out first her son had passed away, and secondly that she was struggling with the death of her son and then her passing. I was not a big Anna fan, but oddly, all of this has affected me in some way. Mainly, because she had such a terrible life that she felt she had to escape or cope with it with drugs. It seems to be the way of a lot of “lost souls.”

As for Willa Ford playing Anna, I have to agree with a lot of you Anna fans, she is not worthy of such a large role. I watched the interview with her and felt that she was very much disrespecting her in the way she spoke about her. It seems that she is forgetting she is actually going to be portraying a “real” person and not a fictional person. She also lacks the charisma that Anna had and the elegance of Anna when she was made up.
This will most likely be the first and only major role for this girl.

Cheers,

 
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On 31 May 2007, Princess wrote:

VICKY, YOU A BIATCH!!!

 
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On 25 May 2007, Anonymous wrote:

I would not call that acting, she pretty much is ditsy as it is. And she was not only doing Maks, she was also doing Chuck and Mo and who knows who else. The casting couch is no stranger to her. If all else fails, she can go back to making porn.

 
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On 18 May 2007, Lisa wrote:

I think she’ll make a good Anna Nicole. They’re both ditsy acting. How hard can it be to play a drug addicted “bimbo?”

How long has she dated this husband to be? Wasn’t she dating Maksim, her pro dance partner from Dancing with the Stars?

 
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On 14 May 2007, somebody somewhere wrote:

I am disappointed! i really wanted to see this movie, but how can you take it seriously after watching this interview. This poor little girl has no idea how to conduct herself in front of a camera. I am not a betting person, but i would bet money that she is not going to be able to pull this movie off. Anna’s life was very unusual for most of John Q Public. It would take a very well trained actress to play this part. Maybe willie thinks that this is a musical or something. I think that they should bring back the cage dancers on Soul Train. That seems more suitable for manduh. I feel sorry for the casting director that cast this Amanda Willaford/mandy/willie/whoever, it doesn’t matter girl. I bet that they won’t be casting much of anything else.

 
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On 1 May 2007, Vickie wrote:

Ladies I am honestly sorry that my opinion offends you. And I assure you I am not full of hate. I just don’t feel sorry for her. You dig your grave you lie in it. We all have choices and I have seen her in interviews, I have seen her reality shows. I have read too many things about her. I did based this opinion on her behavior. She had enough money to get medical help, mental help, whatever, she refused it and now she is not only dead, but her son as well. Her daughter will grow up without her and that is sad. For every action there is reaction and consiquences we all have them. So your are right this is my last post as well. You feel one way and I feel another. But I feel she could have prevented this and she did not. She ruined lives. But now she is dead Larry has His Daughter and life goes on. Peace Out!

 
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On 1 May 2007, Krisan wrote:

And Eve, you said that very well. I respect that you have stayed kind in your words while at the same time trying to make sense to someone who obviously feels an emense amount of hatred. Just like Vickie said.. we all have a right to say what we fell thanks to the consitution. And in that we all have the right to ignore whats said as well. I dont know about the rest of you, but I refuse to condone her hatred by paying any more attention to her posts. She has the right to post them, just as we have the right to ignore them. :) I like you Eve, maybe we could chat sometime :P

 
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On 1 May 2007, Krisan wrote:

Lets get to the point then why dont we? Although I am sure we all feel bad for you with your daughter, we will not see you as “poor little Vickie” because guess what sweetie….we all have lost someone dear to us. And yes, speaking your mind is a wonderful right we have here in the USA, but I live in the south and down here we have something called Hospitality and kindness…. so we dont go around trashing people we dont know. Our opinions on Willa are based on her own actions and something we SAW with our own eyes and HEARD with our own ears, not something we mearly assumed based on a minuet amount of info. I bet you had one hell of a night when you SAW Anna shoot up on her butt!!!!!! Wow, your something special:P. How do you know that her doctor didnt give her an antibiotic or other medication that caused her to get infected… My husband is a nurse for our local VA retirement home, and YES one lone shot can get infected if the conditions are right. It doesnt mean she has been using the injection site more than once. And, I thought I pitied Willa… well now I pity you as well sweetie. You need to seek therapy for your anger. Your life has to be so sad if you go through it with so much hate in your heart. Now to address the dispatcher and officer comment..lol.. I dont have to ask you how you know, because what you know is wrong. Once again you based your statement on not enough research or information. You may have experience with a PD, but you obviously dont have experieince in all of them to know what happenes and how each Department is run. You must be from way up north in a big city where the police stations have a one task role for each person hired. I live in a small town where the budget doesnt have enough money to throw away on hiring lazy people to do one task. We WORK here honey. I am a dispatcher. We usually have two or three dispatchers in the office area at a time, so we all do whats needed at the time. Our PD is in the same building as our city hall and our courthouse. All of our Firemen are volunteers except the Fire Chief. We have one Chief Of Police and 15 officers, only ten of the officers being full time. As a dispatcher we sign people in to court and we sign visitors in to see the inmates which we personally take to the visitations rooms. My role within my PD is not only to answer 911 calls although that is a big part of it, but to also run the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) also known as the FBI information sytem. I also give the inmates thier meds (yes that means contact with them firsthand), I take them thier food that is donated by the local hospital cafeteria, I also let them out into the yard for smoke breaks as well as make out warrants and fingerprint inmates and go with the officers to pick up any female inmates from other towns close by, due to us not having any female officers. I take payment towards fines and i even work hands on with the local bailsmen to help them with thier paperwork. I am certified so i stamp warrants and do other legal verifications. I also have to pat down and search offending females, and for the rest of you reading.. let me just say…yuk! lol. I go places in my job i would never wish another female to have to go. Poeple hide things in all manner of places. And the inmates that have proven themselves to be truly trying to do better get the privlage of cleaning the offices and dispatch room and patrol cars, as well as escorting the other inmates one at a time for thier showers. We pay those lucky inmates a small wage that goes toward thier fines. Heck, lol, most of the inmates we all know personally due to it being a small town. Or we at least know thier mothers, lol. Our local PD has been run like this for many years and we have a spotless track record of no escapes and an even better record of drug busts within our area. So Vickie… dont tell me how i do my job or once again assume things you have no clue about. In a small town we all band together to do our jobs and its a family atmosphere as well as a professional one. Also my father in law is an officer, not only an officer.. he is our Police drug task force officer.(yes, thats right Vickie, a real police man!) He works at the same PD as I, so lets just say I get first hand experiences to what goes on within the world of drug offenders ( what kind of people use, and what reasons people use and the surpising fact of who, which are often people you would never expect to use drugs). So the point is.. yes I do see and have hands on experience with the inmates and I do see the sad side of life first hand. And I dont enable them to do drugs.. I work to help them know there is a better way to life. Why do you think i would work so hard to stop drug use and in this type of job if i was enabling people to do them? What they do after i give them information on how to get help with thier addictions is up to them.
And Dolly? O.O common… think! How often do you actually see her in an interview? Anna also has interviews where she isnt under the influence of pain or meds, granted theres not many, but if you compare them to how many times you have seen dolly interview or go public, its about the same. Dolly has stated that shes doesnt do many interviews due to the pain she endures as well as the fact she doesnt like to stay in the public eye. So lets think about this…If you compared the times youve seen Anna to the times youve seen Dolly, then guess what? Common, think real hard honey…. you can do it… We can figure that maybe its due to the fact we dont see Dolly much when she is in pain and we see Anna all the time in pain and trying to be in the public eye as opposed to Dolly. You have to think things out honey, not just make asumptions based on the first info you get. Things are not as black and white as that. I furthermore have nothing else to say to you. If there is one thing ive learned in my life and job.. its that if someone doesnt want to see theres a problem within themselves, they wont till thier ready too. And you my dear seem like your no where close to ready. So theres no point in arguing with you. So from here on out you can say what ever hateful things you like.. i will pay no attention to your ramblings. My advice would be to seek professional help for your pain and suffering over the loss of your baby girl. And after that.. try to find it in your heart to go beyond that anger and find peace so that you can live happily. And to everyone else, thanks for the nice comments :). And Support. And i look forward to reading more about your opinions.

 
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