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" I hate when people say, 'Well, this is unfair for the underdog.' Well, the underdog should try harder. "
Coco Rocha
Hate
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" I don't think it's fair for people to put fellow beings down just because they're only known for their looks. "
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" We get all excited about collaborations. You get excited to hear that Rihanna has something, because Rihanna is a singer, and she has amazing fashion. You want to see what she would create. I don't get upset and think, 'Someone else is going to do better than me.' You're like, 'Oh, good for her.' "
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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. "
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" In ten years of modeling, I've trained myself to relax and be able to use my upper body. "
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Years
Relax
" I don't get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair. "
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Wear
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" Fashion can be a very fickle lady, especially when it comes to models - fashion likes to turn on its own. "
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Likes
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" 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. "
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Long
Time
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" It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look. "
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" In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.' "
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Too Much
She
Time
" 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. "
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Who
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Know
" If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling. "
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Dancing
Irish
Modeling
" I remember working with Agyness Deyn. At the time, she was the only one who had short hair as a model. I remember being so envious of her because we would all be getting our hair pulled for two hours backstage, and she was getting a new haircut almost every other show. "
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Short
Hair
Haircut
" 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. "
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Know
Funny
People
" 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. "
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You
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Walking
" Be current. Know and comment on current trends and news. Don't be the last one entering a conversation. "
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Conversation
Know
Last
" I love modeling, and I want other girls to enjoy the experience. "
Coco Rocha
Love
Want
Modeling
" 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
Time
Long
Perspective
" We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16. "
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Young
You
New York
" Models can be people, too. But the only way to do that is to kind of step up and keep doing new things that no one has thought of, from new websites to new blogs, a newscast, doing speeches, talking to kids. It kind of opens a new headline every time: 'Oh, a model hasn't done this before; a model hasn't done that before.' "
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Time
New Things
Step
" I think it's important to wear clothing that means something to you, and so I always try to make sure I'm wearing at least one item that has a personal meaning to me. "
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Try
Me
Important
" To me, true style icons have been few and far between. Elizabeth Taylor comes to mind. I never got to meet her while she was alive, but she is one of those people I have always admired in terms of her sense of style. "
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People
Me
Style
" Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves. "
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Themselves
Lot
Moms
" I was always excited by the idea of having my own company, but models are rarely serious when they venture off into something else, be it acting, singing, or starting their own business. "
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Serious
Own
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" I've always been the type that, every few months, I'm like, 'Let's change the haircut one more time.' "
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Time
More
Haircut
" I've always been the kind of girl that takes every day as it comes. "
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Every Day
Girl
Always
" 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.' "
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Me
Thought
Time
" 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? "
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Skinny
Basketball
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" I usually don't usually go for fluffy, bohemian-chic pieces. "
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Go
Fluffy
Pieces
" Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business. "
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Me
You
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" Weirdly enough, in my 14 years of modeling, I've only worn a blonde wig three times. I have no idea why I've never been given the option to really try blonde as a model. But here I am doing it on my own. "
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Doing