“I’m probably the first girl you’ve interviewed who’s actually eating the day before her photo shoot,” Willa Ford jokes, taking a huge bite out of her chicken salad. She’s chowing down to keep her energy up. The 25-year-old is about to embark on a 38-city Dancing With the Stars tour—a live version of the smash TV show that 20 million people watched each week last year and that catapulted her to household-name status.
