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RADIO mr i mw I ftte-iS; Mxf''-w-: ft Trim 1' inn mi -nrtiaiiM aumilinl 1 11 mi' mi 11 1 I STILL CANT BELIEVE I'M DOING Wendy Williams of Kis: Kiss FM is the most listened-to deejay in her time slot. J. ZUMWALT MTTP From the lips of deejay Wendy Williams comes the Kiss of the drive-time woman "How old are you, 15?" Williams asks a female caller. "Are you dating? When did you get your first kiss 13?" Before the caller can answer, Williams starts a two-minute monologue about her first kiss, when she was only 13. "But I lied and told the guy I was 17," Williams tells her listeners.

"When he kissed me. I just started to fill out. youkno-whatlmean. I felt, like, like I was just well, ya'know, I felt like, like a woman." Haynes blushes and bursts out laughing. Williams just shrugs and says, off the air: "I really wanted to say I felt like my breasts were growing, but I caught myself." When Williams gets a call on her hotline, she just looks into the air as if to say, "I know, I know!" Program director Brown frequently calls his star jock when she gets too risque.

"Sometimes I have to pull off the road when I'm listening to her on the way home," Brown says. "I just can't believe some of the things she says. Sometimes I have to reel her in. But most of the time, I just let it go. Because that's just Wendy." Williams says she has had discussions about going into television she has appeared on "Martin" as herself but she won't go into detail because "I don't want to jinx it." She and Brown re rui i LfU tener about contraception one recent evening is followed by some banter about her "chopped" fingernails; Williams was expecting 'Sometimes I have to reel her says WRKS' program director.

Hung-Li, who does her nails on the air every other Monday, but on this day she was sick. Williams carries on despite the hardship. "Hi, you're on Kiss," says a bubbling Williams as she motions for Kevin Haynes, her 25-year-old intern, to get her a commercial for the next break. If A enough so it doesn't matter, but in 10 years I would like to be able to lie about my age, okay?" But she does admit to having a younger brother who's 25 and an older sister who is an attorney. Tom and Shirley Williams knew there was something different about their middle child.

She was so hyperactive as a child that doctors suggested her parents put her on medication, but they refused. "Instead, they developed a code for me when we went out in public if I started to embarrass them," Williams says. "They would say 'Wendy, or 'Wendy, or And from there I would tone it down." TL meant too loud; TM, too much; and TF, too fast. Now Williams is using TL, TM and TF to make LM lots of money. (Although not top dollar.

"Isn't that a shame?" she says. "Make sure you mention One of Williams' attractions is her unpredictability: A discussion with a lis By KAREN HUNTER-HODGE Daily News Staff Writer trj; endy Williams is al most hard to find among the clutter of music and commercial tape cartridges, mikes and machines. Then she opens her mouth. "You're on Kiss-FM," she says as she pulls on the earphones and tugs the mike closer to her hot-pink lips. "I can't help smiling when I say that," says Williams.

"It's like, I still can't believe I'm sitting here doing this." This black Valley Girl from the Jersey Shore who talks so much that an entire interview can be conducted without asking a single question is, like, doing really, really well. Williams is the most listened-to jock in the evening drive (6-10 p.m.). Her "Top 8 at 8," an 8 p.m. countdown of the top eight songs, is the highest rated hour in all of local radio. And Williams' success has carried WRKS-FM, 98.7-Kiss, to its sixth straight No.

1 finish in the ratings. In her 2Sh years on the air full-time, 10 of 12 ratings periods have found WRKS on top. "I got a lot of criticism when I decided to put Wendy on full-time," says WRKS program director Vinny Brown of his deejay, who started part-time doing weather and gossip for the station's morning show. "She didn't have that much experi-S ence." Brown says he was also ui warned about putting three women Yvonne Mobley, Carol Ford and Williams a on the air in a row. "But I g- didn't let her gender get in the way of my decision," fBr6wn says.

knew she "g- could handle it" i Williams brings to the job a diss-mistress, in-your-face style that is to hip hop listeners what Howard Stern and Don Imus are to middle-class males. But her mall attire black spandex tights, oversize shirt and white Keds with red and white Kiss-FM shoelaces gives her away. Although she wears the jewelry and kicks the lingo with the best of them, she cannot hide her Wendy's early influence? 'I grew up listening to ACDC she says. suburban upbringing in predominately white Ocean Township. "I was Tootie on 'Facts of she says.

"I grew up listening to ACDC because that was what was happening in my school. That's probably why I'm so into hip hop now and so attracted to ruff-necks and homeboys. I didn't have it growing up." her age, because Ti still young cently began co-hosting Top 30 USA, a national weekly countdown of urban-contemporary music. And she is the spokeswoman for Machine-Gear, a popular hip hop clothing line. "Yes, I do have it going on," Williams says.

"And I can talk about it because I know it can all be taken away tomorrow, SoV I jnTght al'weJI 'enjoy" it i 4 -V The Williams glossary Mac: To talk, i.e. "Mac among yourselves." "Good mac-cin' with you." On the DL (down low): Inconspicuous, secret Ruff-Neck: A homeboy; gangsterlike fellow from the neighborhood. Pid-apfsPow, boom. 'My Version cifboorapUhere it tta-Boom: 'See Pid-ap! tttf -1 7.