Patricia Ford was born and raised in Honolulu, but she also lived in Waianae during that time. Her modelling carrer started at a Tropical Teen pageant. Japanese modeling scouts saw her and offered her to go to Japan when she was 15. She is best known for modeling for Playboy's Special Editions, but has also posed for erotic photographer Suze Randall and various swimsuit and lingerie catalogues. Besides the notorious Playboy, Patricia has appeared in many adult magazines, such as High Society and Club International (both times as Brandi), Men's World, Men Only, Spice, Model Directory, Club, and Cheri Undercover. She was a booth babe for Eidos Interactive at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, CA.

During the peak of her career (mid 1990s) she tried to launch her own official website three times. Reportingly she was scammed every time and lost a lot of money. Her domains http://www.patriciaford.com and http://www.patricia-ford.com was abused with only spam for years until Mac & Bumble signed her and bought the domains. Although they show Patricia Ford content today, they are not updated anymore. At that time she also worked close with another Playboy model called Lisa Boyle, both did huge success with the shots they did together. Lisa Boyle on the other hand is running her website sucessfully even to this date.

Patricia Ford has also worked as an actress, having appeared in bit parts in films such as the 1999 boxing comedy-drama Play It To the Bone, and the 1986 film Biggles: Adventures in Time. By the year 2000, she had moved to Las Vegas and had started to appear in various softcore B-movies. She appeared in the short film Sweet by Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt.