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Biography

Patricia Ford

Overview

  • Born
    March 17, 1969 · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
  • Nickname
    • Puanani
  • Height
    5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

Mini bio

  • Gorgeous, buxom, and slender brunette knockout Patricia Ford was born on March 17, 1969 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She's of German, Irish, Chinese, Hawaiian, and Portuguese descent. Ford attended Moanalua High School and graduated from Waianea High School in Waianea, Hawaii in 1987. Patricia began her modeling career as a contestant in a Tropical Teen pageant, where she was discovered by Japanese talent scouts who offered to send her to Japan to work at age fifteen. Ford achieved her greatest enduring popularity as a model in numerous Playboy newsstand special editions (she was voted Playboy's Lingerie Supermodel of the Year in 1996). Among the other men's magazines Patricia posed for are Spice, Club, High Society, and Men's World. A favorite pin-up model for noted adult photographer Suze Randall, Ford not only was featured in various swimwear and lingerie catalogs, but also acted in a few films and TV shows as well as appeared in TV commercials for Bud Light, Miller Lite, and the Splash bikini store chain. A five time winner of the Bikini Open (she won in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1995), Patricia was crowned Miss Maharajah '92 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ford stopped modeling while still in her early thirties. She got married in 2001 and reportedly settled down in Las Vegas, Nevada.
    - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

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  • Graduated from Moanalua High School.
  • Playboy (USA): Lingerie Supermodel of the Year 1996
  • Is of German, Irish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Hawaiian ancestry.
  • Became a highly successful, and high paid, model in Japan after she was discovered by an advertising executive while working at the Honolulu airport as a greeter handing out leis.
  • A five time winner of the Internet "Bikini Open," she was on of the most widely known lingerie models of the 1990s and a favorite pin-up of legendary photographer Suze Randall.

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