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You can teach a girl how to model, how to take a pretty picture, and how to walk, but you can't teach personality.
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To be honest, the thing is I don't really like clothes. I mean, it is cool, but I like tech. I am a tech girl. A secret nerd - there, I said it.
Coco Rocha
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When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'
Coco Rocha -
Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves.
Coco Rocha -
My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.
Coco Rocha -
I love modeling, and I want other girls to enjoy the experience.
Coco Rocha -
I've always been the kind of girl that takes every day as it comes.
Coco Rocha -
I always think that some of those moms who are rocking cool fashion looks while walking their little babies in a stroller is just the bomb. You don't have to, all of a sudden, have to transition into 'mom' outfits from the '90s just because you became a mom.
Coco Rocha
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Nowadays, we have to break the molds to what it means to be a model in 2016.
Coco Rocha -
French designers are classic, chic, and traditional.
Coco Rocha -
People who rooted for me and were impactful in my career knew everything about me. They knew my goals, my likes, my dislikes, what I wanted out of my career.
Coco Rocha -
My besties do Victoria's Secret. I just don't do it.
Coco Rocha -
I don't get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair.
Coco Rocha -
I will definitely hook up my daughter if she decides to be a model.
Coco Rocha
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Whatever you do, never do the duck face - that's the worst look for any girl out there. Some girls think that pushing out their lips looks fabulous, but it doesn't.
Coco Rocha -
When I first started modeling, I had the chance to walk the runway with Naomi passing by me, but I didn't know anything about supermodels. But when I saw her backstage, she complimented me on my walk, and I thought she was so nice - everyone was freaking out that I didn't know who she was.
Coco Rocha -
Models are supposed to be a muse to you. Why is a muse always the same body type, the same look? It's boring.
Coco Rocha -
A little personal trick: apply brown eyeliner throughout the day and then just add a little black over the top for a night look.
Coco Rocha -
I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.
Coco Rocha -
The funny thing is that, for some reason, people think when you're pregnant, you have to start wearing maternity wear and wear flats and look Mom-ish. I don't know exactly what people expect of people who are pregnant, but there's definitely a lot of moms out there that look super fabulous all the time, and I guess that's my inspiration.
Coco Rocha
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When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.
Coco Rocha -
I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger, and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores, so... vintage was like a step up.
Coco Rocha -
Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?
Coco Rocha -
I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.
Coco Rocha