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" I was the first model to get a blog and talk about anything in modeling. "
Coco Rocha
Talk
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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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" My besties do Victoria's Secret. I just don't do it. "
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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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" 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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" For a small population, Canada has always had a very strong and vibrant style. "
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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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" Having good style really just means having a decisive eye and being able to put things together in an aesthetically pleasing manner. It's not a matter of spending a lot of money and throwing it all together. "
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" Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society. "
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" I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer. "
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" If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling. "
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" 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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" 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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Style
" Everyone always remembers my dancing. "
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" When I was asked to be a part of 'The Face,' I was like, 'This is exactly what I do without cameras.' I didn't find it any different than what I usually do for young girls - giving runway tips or just explaining how the whole industry works - but now you have, like, 19 cameras on you, documenting you while you scratch your nose. "
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Giving
Young
You
" I think, in general, models tend to do their favorite faces or their comfortable face, but your facial expression is just so important. You don't want to have an editorial of 20 photos where it's just you giving a 'Zoolander' face. "
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" French designers are classic, chic, and traditional. "
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Chic
Classic
" I will definitely hook up my daughter if she decides to be a model. "
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Model
Daughter
Hook
" Nowadays, we have to break the molds to what it means to be a model in 2016. "
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Nowadays
Break
" 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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" I've always been the kind of girl that takes every day as it comes. "
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Always
" Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves. "
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" Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It's a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me. "
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" I think it's fun to dress up, although sometimes you do get a little tired of it, but I definitely try to have a different look every day. "
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Day
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" I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality. "
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" I usually don't usually go for fluffy, bohemian-chic pieces. "
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Fluffy
Pieces
" Be current. Know and comment on current trends and news. Don't be the last one entering a conversation. "
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" I was once dressed as a mermaid for a Jean Paul Gaultier show. My legs were bound into a fish tail, so I had to come down the runway on crutches. Halfway down, I was supposed to unzip the fish tail to reveal my legs, but the zipper broke, so I ended up stabbing my fake nail through the fabric of the zipper and ripping my way out. "
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Way
Legs
Down
" Fashion can be a very fickle lady, especially when it comes to models - fashion likes to turn on its own. "
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" When I started modeling, I didn't feel like I had a big sister to tell me how this industry works. "
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