Biography - Leanne Ford
Who is Leanne Ford?
Leanne Ford is an interior designer, reality TV star by profession, and American by nationality. She is well known for starring in Restored by the Fords, A Very Brady Renovation.
Leanne Ford – Age, Parents, Siblings
Leanne Ford’s birth took place on June 29, 1981, in Pennsylvania, USA. She was born to her mother Jackie Ford and her father Mike Ford, who passed away in 2004. She is not the only child of her parents and has two siblings – sister Michelle Ford and Steve Ford.
Other details of her early life including that of her mother, father, ethnicity, and rest of the family are not shared with the public.
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Young Leanne Ford, Steve Ford (Image: Instagram)
Education, Ethnicity
The educational history of Leanne Ford is not known.
Her ethnicity is Caucasian.
Leanne Ford – Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Divorce
Leanne Ford married her longtime boyfriend Erik Allen on November 12, 2017. They had been dating since early 2015. She and her husband Erik Allen Ford, who is the founder and owner of men’s clothing brand Buck Mason, welcomed their daughter Ever Allen Ford on March 18, 2019.
As of 2020, the couple is living happily without rumors of extra-marital affairs or divorce.
This is her second marriage for her as she was married to Brad Schaffer on 3 July 2010, which eventually ended in divorce.
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Leanne Ford, and Erik Allen Ford with their daughter (Image: Reid Rolls)
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Leanne Ford – Career
Early Career
Ford worked in the fashion industry as a fashion stylist before changing her career to an interior designer at the age of 30. With her brother Steve, who is a contractor and carpenter, Leanne Ford redesigned a grungy schoolhouse attic into a master bath.
It was then picked up by Country Living and featured on the cover of design books, which catapulted her career in interior design.
With HGTV
HGTV reached out to her for the first time to host the show Fixer Upper. However, her first husband was not keen to be on TV. So Leanne Ford parted ways with HGTV, which later on found Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines to feature on Fixer Upper.
In 2016 Leanne Ford was featured in Restored by the Fords. She has also worked in TV shows Rock the Block (2019), and A Very Brady Renovation (2019). Her work has also been featured in Architectural Digest, Domino, GQ, Lonny, Elle Decor, Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Redbook, MyDomaine, and the New York Times.
Her book, Work in Progress: Unconventional Thoughts on Designing an Extraordinary Life, co-written with her brother Steve was released in 2019.
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Leanne Ford redesigned an attic into a bathroom (Image: leanneford)
Co-stars
On A Very Brady Renovation, Leanne Ford has worked with Christopher Knight, Karen E. Laine, Mike Lookinland, and Maureen McCormick.
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Leanne Ford – Net Worth, Salary
The figures on her net worth and annual salary are under review and will be updated.
Leanne Ford – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
On Social media handles including Instagram, Leanne Ford is active with over 50.5k followers but is absent from Twitter, and Facebook. She also has an official website - leanneford.com.
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