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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john2025
October 22, 2008

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…

Rnadall Farquharson
February 9, 2008

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!

Anonymous
October 9, 2007

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.

Pixie
July 7, 2007

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!!!!!

an anna fan always!!
July 7, 2007

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…………

weezie
July 6, 2007

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!

teresa-anna bigggest fan
July 6, 2007

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

Jeanne From Pa
July 6, 2007

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.

karry smith
July 6, 2007

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.

WILLASTARSSUCK
July 6, 2007

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…

sissyannm
July 5, 2007

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!!

sissyannm
July 5, 2007

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!!

sissyannm
July 5, 2007

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,

Paulette
July 5, 2007

VICKY, YOU A BIATCH!!!

Princess
May 31, 2007

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.

Anonymous
May 25, 2007

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?

Lisa
May 18, 2007

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.

somebody somewhere
May 14, 2007

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!

Vickie
May 1, 2007

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

Krisan
May 1, 2007
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