Melyssa Ford

About

Melyssa Savannah Ford (born November 7, 1976) is a Canadian media personality, actress, and former video vixen.

Melyssa Savannah Ford was born on November 7, 1976, in Toronto, Ontario. Ford is mixed race, with her father having roots in Barbados, and her mother having Norwegian and Russian ancestry.
She attended York University, majoring in the field of forensic psychology.

In 1997, music video director Little X discovered Ford, who was 20, while she was working as a bartender at a Toronto nightclub and helped launch her modelling career. She has appeared in music videos, men’s magazines, television programs and films. Ford was an on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio’s Hot Jamz channel. She formerly sold a line of calendars and a DVD.
In a 2008 CNN interview, Ford explained that when making music videos she often asked herself whether she was “perpetuating a negative stereotype” about black women. When she was asked whether music videos, overall, are “demeaning to women”, Ford replied, “Yes, I definitely have to say that”.
From June 2014 to January 2015, Ford participated in the Bravo Network television series Blood, Sweat & Heels, documenting…