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As Ford Brings Smith Back to Life in Movie It's Anna Nicole Vs. Willa
By Stacy Jenel Smith

If all is going according to plan, Willa Ford is currently before the cameras, making like Anna Nicole Smith in a Hollywood biopic of the late model - complete with facial and body prosthetics molded to meld her into Anna Nicole in her zaftig years. The reformed wild child, who once dubbed herself the "Bad Girl of Pop," has lots in common with her real-life counterpart - striking blonde beauty and a ravenous hunger for fame, for starters. But there are many obvious differences between them. The movie, "Anna Nicole" isn't due until summer, but you can check out how the tragic TrimSpa goddess and the "I Wanna Be Bad" girl stack up now.

Anna
Pix of Anna Nicole Smith
 Willa
Pix of Willa Ford
Anna Nicole Smith

Vital Statistics:
   Real Name: Vickie Lynn Hogan
   Alternate/Nickname: Vickie Smith,
   Nikki Hart, Robin Smith
   Born: 11-28-1967
   Hometown: Mexia, Texas
   Height: 5-foot-11

 Willa Ford

Vital Statistics:
   Real Name: Amanda Lee Williford
   Alternate/Nickname: Mandah, Mando
   Commando
   Born: 1-22-1981
   Hometown: Ruskin, Florida
   Height: 5-foot-7

Claims to Fame: Playboy Playmate of the Year, 1993; Married 89-year-old Texas oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall when she was 26; battle over Marshall's estate to Supreme Court; E! Channel's "The Anna Nicole Show"; Weight fluctuation from 138 to 230+, TrimSpa Spokeswoman; 20-year-old son Daniel's overdose death three days after birth of daughter; death at 39 of an overdose; paternity battle over baby Dannielynn. Claims to Fame: Hit songs "I Wanna Be Bad," "A Toast to Men"; object of hatred by Nick Carter fans; competing on "Dancing With the Stars," hostessing shows including "The Ultimate Fighter," "TRL," "Say What Karaoke" "I Bet You Will," "The Morning After"; posing for Playboy; becoming object of hatred by fans of hockey player fiancé Mike Modano.
About Posing for Playboy: "The people in [Texas] won't believe it when these pictures of me hit the newsstands, because I was considered a goody-two-shoes nerd back in high school…I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me." About Posing for Playboy: "Everybody who says, 'I'd never do it.' Bull crap. Let's talk about the money they put on the table. Let's talk about the fact that you have those pictures for life. More importantly for me, once you do the magazine, it puts you in the black book for life...I think as soon as women get off their high horse and realize that our bodies are our weapon....men don't have this…they don't look like this naked."
Bumping and Grinding: Topless dancer in Houston strip clubs during the same period she worked for Wal-Mart. Met 89-year-old Texas oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall while working at Gigi's strip club in 1991. Bumping and Grinding: Summer guest "doll" for Pussycat Dolls' Las Vegas Show...Played quarterback for the Dallas Desire in the 2006 Lingerie Bowl.
Main Men in Life: 1st husband fry cook Billy Smith; Marshall; Howard K.Stern, attorney, married in non-legal ceremony in 2006, named father of baby Dannielynn on birth certificate; photographer Larry Birkhead, proven by DNA testing to be biological father of Dannielynn; too many other paternity claimants to name here except Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, a.ka. Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, who merits note for grotesque oddness.  Main Men in Life: : Became engaged to her Dallas Stars hockey player Michael Modano in November 2006; romances with actor Christopher Jones, Ultimate Fighting Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell and Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, and possibly her "Dancing With the Stars" partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
Sex Surprise: "I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex." (quoted from her 1992 diary.) Sex Surprise: "This might be a big let-down to guys, but I could count the men I've had sex with on the fingers of one hand." (Blender 2004) 
Tattoos: A rose clenched between teeth and red lips over her derriere, a topless Native American girl on her ankle, a large breasted topless blonde mermaid on her lower back, two red cherries below her stomach on the right, a Playboy bunny on the left; the words "Daniel" and "Papas" on the mid anterior pelvis region; a combination artwork of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Christ's head and the Bible on her lower leg and ankle; Marilyn Monroe's face; a cross; a heart and shooting flames. Plus, Larry Birkhead has a tattoo of Anna Nicole across his back.  Tattoos: Music for the first bar of "Amazing Grace" around her bicep, a butterfly below the right side of her stomach.
Early Years: Parents Don and Virgie (Tabers) Hogan, a Houston law enforcement officer, divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother, grandmother and an aunt. Wed at age 17 to Billy Smith, fry cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken, who was 16 at the time. Son Daniel born 1984. Early Years: Raised on a Florida farm by parents Ralph and Donna Williford. Began studying opera as a child - her mom's way of combating a speech impediment. At age eight joined Tampa Bay Children's Choir. Within three years was a member of Tampa's Children's Performing Arts Troupe Entertainment Revue, becoming a featured soloist performing at theme parks and fairs. Left group at 15 and went on to work solo. Signed with MCA in 1999.
Education: Failed freshman year at Mexia High School, dropped out during sophomore year. Education: High School, reportedly an A+ honor student who was put into advanced placement classes -- but she recently told Maxim Magazine, "I cheated through my entire high school career."
Jeans Model: Guess? Jeans Model: Bongo
About herself: "It's been hell, between the hospitals and the ulcers and the nervous breakdowns"; "It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me."; "I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable"; "Marrying money was not a good thing for me"; I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through." About herself: "People say I have spunk. When a girl has spunk, she just has it….I come across to many people, when people meet me, like someone thatmay be hard to get along with... for no reason." (askmen.com); "I [think I have] ADD."

Syndicated Columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith are featured in over 100 print publications and other media outlets with cutting edge celebrity news and insider scoop. Have a burning showbiz question? Ask those in-the-know, Marilyn and Stacy, and get the real skinny daily in their "Ask BeckSmith" column on CompuServe and Netscape.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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