32 Facts About Coco Rocha

Mikhaila "Coco" Rocha was born on September 10,1988 and is a Canadian model.

Coco Rocha is known as one of the first "digital" supermodels, and is known for her advocacy for younger models.

Coco Rocha returned to New York and signed an exclusive contract with photographer Steven Meisel, who created a list of clients she could and could not work with.

Backstage at the Anna Sui show, Coco Rocha met model Naomi Campbell, who held her hands and told her she was "her new favourite model".

In July 2010, Coco Rocha appeared on the Vogue website daily for an entire month in a feature named "Today I'm Wearing".

Coco Rocha previously collaborated with Lagerfeld and Coca-Cola in 2010.

In July 2011, Coco Rocha became the first high fashion model to be photographed by the Lytro Camera, the camera takes what the company calls a "living picture," meaning that it captures enough visual information in a single exposure so that the focus and zoom can be adjusted even after the picture is taken.

Coco Rocha said she reached out to the company after reading about them on the website Mashable.

In mid-February 2012, Coco Rocha appeared in a commercial for White House Black Market created by New York advertising agency ceft and company new york in which she was featured tap-dancing.

In September 2014, Coco Rocha walked for designers including Zac Posen at Spring New York Fashion Week, her tenth year working with the designer.

Coco Rocha appeared in The September Issue, a 2009 fly-on-the-wall documentary film about American Vogue magazine.

Coco Rocha appeared as a guest judge on episode 8 of season 2 of the reality competition show Project Runway Canada in 2009, where the challenge for contestants was to create a dress for Coco Rocha to wear.

Coco Rocha hosted the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards white carpet.

In 2015, in the 9th cycle of Australia's Next Top Model, Coco Rocha appeared in the series' ninth episode, where the final four traveled to New York.

Coco Rocha appeared in season 14 of Project Runway as a guest judge on a challenge where the designers took their inspiration from Finding Neverland on Broadway.

In 2014, Coco Rocha released the book Study of Pose with photographer Steven Sebring, an encyclopedia of 1000 poses modeled by her, including those from her influences like Botticelli's Venus and Jessica Rabbit.

In June 2016, Coco Rocha took a management and ownership stake at Nomad Mgmt Modeling Agency and served as the brand director for the agency.

Coco Rocha helped launch the agency's first office outside of the US, in Vietnam, in addition to opening a Los Angeles booking agency.

Coco Rocha privately trained models entering the fashion industry, such as Kendall and Kylie Jenner, through one-on-one consultations, from which she developed the idea for a model camp.

The program is attended in four-day sessions, instructing students on the modeling industry, and Coco Rocha has taught the program at Harvard University.

Coco Rocha, along with her husband, is an investor and advisor for two web3 platforms, P00ls and FLYP.

Coco Rocha is one of the few models who have spoken out against the prevalence of eating disorders in the modeling industry.

In June 2011, Coco Rocha announced a partnership with Canadian-fashion-retailer Jacob for a "Photoshop-free" campaign.

On October 11,2011, Coco Rocha appeared on Anderson Cooper's daytime television show, Anderson, where she said models are scouted too young and put under pressure to stay thin and behave unnaturally, while they are "still minors".

Coco Rocha worked with The Model Alliance, to improve underage protection laws for models in New York State, noting that models did not have the same protections as other underage people in the entertainment industry.

In October 2010, Coco Rocha was given Marie Claire's Prix d'Excellence as their model of the year at a ceremony in Paris.

Coco Rocha had contributed a number of articles to the magazine on the topic of girls' body image and self-esteem.

On February 1,2014, Coco Rocha was awarded the "Model of the Year Award" at the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards in Toronto, Canada.

Coco Rocha received the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization's Fashion Pioneer Award at the United Nations in 2022, celebrating her as a trailblazer and innovator in her field.

Coco Rocha was one of twenty-one high fashion models mentioned in Kanye West's 2010 song "Christian Dior Denim Flow".

Coco Rocha has been a devout Jehovah's Witness since childhood, and in a 2013 interview stated that she still participates with Jehovah's Witnesses in their practice of preaching door-to-door.

Coco Rocha calls herself "a Christian first and a model second", and says that due to her faith she will not pose nude, with cigarettes, nationalistic emblems or religious icons.