She and her husband lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after their marriage on July 25, 1989. In 1997, they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they lived for nearly 12 years before returning to Tulsa in 2009. She has since divorced and relocated to McKinney, Texas. In 2010, at age 53, Ford went into sudden cardiac arrest while exercising on an elliptical machine. She had no prior knowledge that she had heart disease. Ford says she was "extremely lucky" that while she was in the gym, a surgeon was "walking up the steps" and "shocked" her back. She was revived with an automated external defibrillator. After her recovery, she was given a heart stent and pacemaker. She spoke of the experience on June 4, 2013 at the American Heart Association's Heart Ball in Grand Rapids.