Villa Ford Made risky and ultimately successful – a career change after driving a pop superstardom wave in the early 2000s.
With Britney Spears and Kristin Aguilera In 189, as the main music acts, the 18 -year -old Ford (the real name Amanda Lee Wiliford) was originally signed at the Atlantic Records with the stage name “Mandah”. Record conductors eventually used their true surname as inspiration for alternative moniker “Willa Ford” to avoid confusion with another upcoming pop princess, MandyIn the area
Ford soon descended into the coveted opening act slot Backstreet Boys’ Millennium Tour in 2000 before her debut single “I want to be a bad” release next year. The only one was a convincing success, but Ford had a failed time to release his subsequent single “or Ya” on September 11, 2001.
2017 during the annual interview with StandFord recalled how her career trajectory was partially drawn from September 11, terrorist attacks and subsequent global events.
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“Everything that happened that day frozen; the world was silent as it needed,” she recalled. “My second single was not doing well because everything that started to work on this day. I know it sounds silly, but on the radio they are the stuff, but it really fell aside. I don’t think it’s a big deal because we made a new album anyway.”
Ford reminded of his series of failures that continued when her record company was sold and the CEO who defended her career left the company.
“I felt this pop music took me and put me in the washing cycle, and I was spinning out of control,” she recalled. “I wanted some time to reorient myself. I began to overestimate what I did.”
Throughout the early 2000s, Ford became a Pantene Pro-V Provice campaign representative and filled as a MTV guest host TRL and Say what karaokeBefore lowering your short -term web series I can bet you will do it 2002.
At the same time her love life got a lot of titles while she introduced Backstreet Boys a member Nick CarterIn the area after the couple split in the early 2000s, Ford acknowledged to Associated Press That it was difficult to navigate a high -level relationship.
“We learned a lot together. We went through so much at such a young age,” Ford said. “We were so quickly put in front of all these people and laughed so much.”
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The singer added, “I think he knows it at the end of the day. Like I really got the bad part, because at the time, I wasn’t a celebrity of the boys’ group. I think he feels bad that it happened.”
While her short romance with Backstreet Boys member Carter is still a feature of the early 2000s pop training, Ford’s two marriages were definitely lower. She was with a hockey player Mike Modano From 2007 to 2012, before tying the knot with a retired NFL star and community activist Ryan 2015. Fords and Nece welcomed her son Elijah Everet Mandel in the year.
Ford never regained the impulse from “I want to be bad”, so she made a transition to action without never skipping the second album. Ford accepted the role of the name in the film Direct-to-DVD Anna Nicole Smith’s story and starred in opposite Gilmore girls‘ Jared lastalki 2009 Reboot Friday, Date 13who earned nearly $ 100 million at the box office. She has continued to act – often on TV guests – to the present.
Ford turned his career again in the late 2000s to work as interior designer A list clients like Stiff aoks and French Montanwith her work demonstrated Kardashians‘star Scott DisickS a temporary e! A series of scores Flip it like disickIn the area she said Hollywood reporter In 2019, she hoped to inspire other women with her career transition.
“I want to give other women the opportunity to tell them that this is fine for a hinging career,” Ford explained. “Even if you don’t have a college degree, you are still worthy of making a transition. I have been told, ‘You were a pop singer. Why should I think of you as an interior designer? “Well, you should take me seriously because I’ve been working and seven years have passed when I have run my own business.”
Willa Ford in August 2019.
Michael Tullbergs/Getty ImagesSince Ford reflected his “hinge” away from the music, she suggested that many do not understand “the graph that you keep and how much you need from you, you slowly retreat from you.”
“There are several reasons (why I leave music behind me),” she insisted. “Look, you have to be successful with your singles. This is one of the reasons I went. But I had come to the point where I couldn’t do it anymore. I remember splitting and calling my mother on the phone. And I told her, ‘I don’t feel right anymore, mom. “And she said,” You wrap your suitcase and come home right away. “And so I did it.”
Ford continued, “I left New York, got on a plane and went home to Florida. I needed to take it for a minute to breathe. And then I watched how many people later had collapsed because they didn’t take that time.
Ford continues to work in interior design in Los Angeles to this day and recently Celebrated its tenth wedding anniversary April 2015.
