Tania Ford

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Tania Ford is a character in the English language telenovela (Soap Opera), Fashion House. She is played by Mini Anden.

[edit] Extremely Self-destructive

Tania was a supermodel who worked out of the House of Gianni, a prestigious fashion firm in Los Angeles. She was also extremely arrogant, very provocative and highly self-destructive (somewhat akin to Valley of the Dolls's Neely O'Hara).

She believed that she is the next big and hottest thing to happen in modeling and she wouldn't stop at anything to achieve that goal.

Ambitious and very conniving, Tania made several enemies in her rise to the top. For some time, she dated Luke Gianni, the son of her boss, Maria, the owner of House of Gianni, but he broke up with her, instead beginning a relationship with Michelle Randall Miller. Apparently, Maria didn't necessarily like Tania, either; because she has been insulted by her numerous times.

Also, she had a very bitter, not to mention, extremely acrimonious rivalry with Nikki Clark, a model who is Michelle's best friend. Whenever she started a fight with Nikki, Tania conveniently forgot that she was the one who instigated things and usually sat back and enjoyed the carnage. She usually seemed to horn into Nikki's situations, almost inevitably causing an argument between the two.

Tania also had an allergic reaction to niacin, which was evident when Nikki put said allergen in her face mask, which caused her face to break out in a rash, before Maria's wedding. She thought nothing of insulting anyone and hurting them, often with the utmost cruelty.

She lashed out at Maria's former assistant, Lexi, calling her a skank (which seems to be her favorite epithet, towards anyone) and slapping her across the face, for daring to suggest that she should not be in the charity fashion show. Tania also told her that she is nothing, while she (Tania) is her better. Which didn't sit well with Lexi, who has a low self-esteem problem.

She was involved in the charity fashion show, and arrogantly stated that she will become the Face of Gianni "because I am younger and I am hotter!!" Although she was considered a very prestigious model, she was also known for having somewhat of a severe drug problem. However, Tania ended up eating her words, and Nikki won the face of Gianni competition, thanks to William Chandler.

However, the scheming Maria, intent on hurting anyone associated with Michelle, yanked the title from Nikki and named Tania Face of Gianni. This horrified Harold and Hans, who had to tell Nikki the bad news, but a gleeful Tania beat them to the punch.

Sophia Blakely, William's mother, was intent on getting any information out of her, but, like most of her dealings, this seems to be merely a means to get Maria Gianni utterly destroyed, and to get rid of anyone who is even remotely allied with her; such as Tania.

She said she wanted Tania to be with William, and not Nikki, but again, as is often her case, her motives were clearly not known, for she confronted Tania's drug dealer, and told him that he had better tell her all he knows about her, or else, he will go to jail for drug dealing. She had also been flirting with crooked mobster, Eddie Zarouvian, who had also been able to plie her with drugs.

However, her self-destructive tendencies cost her, her job as "Face of Gianni", and never one to not manipulate things to her own advantage, blamed everyone (Maria, Michael Bauer, the photographer; everyone else) but herself. Michael had even enlisted Tania's ex, Luke, to try to reason with her, but it seemed like she didn't want to listen.

Tania seemed to think that she was falling for William, but yet again, Tania was told that she has no future with William, and is happily in love with Nikki. She also lost her modeling contract, because she has failed to show up for shoots and when she did show up, she looked absolutely horrible. Depressed, she still clung to her drugs and liquor.

However, her hard-partying ways had come to haunt her finally. Strung out on drugs and drunk out of her mind, she took her car and drove until she crashed into a tree. Luke and Michael took her to a drug rehab center called Simpson House, but as usual, Tania is not receptive to this and is conniving to get out of there.

Thanks to William, she was freed from Simpson House, after she denounced Luke and Michael as no longer her friends. She aimed to also get even with Maria for taking her job as Face of Gianni. In this, she allied herself with Sophia.

She got into a fight with Harold and Hans, in an attempt to sabotage her photo shoot. She even went so far as to slap Harold in the face, and bite Hans on his wrist. She was angered when she discovered that it was a set-up to thwart anyone from knowing where she really is. She soon found she was falling for William.

With Sophia's help, she set to reclaim her former job as a model and all the glory that went with it. With William and Sophia going overseas to do business, Tania felt adrift. She too was considered a person of interest in the murder of Maria Gianni.

Eventually, she confessed to Maria's murder and was convicted, it was William who drove her to it, and helped Tania with it. However, neither one of them discovered that Maria had really faked her death. Nonetheless, Tania would never be a model again.