Top 55 Coco Rocha Quotes

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.

I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

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?

My besties do Victoria’s Secret. I just don’t do it.

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.

I won’t work with Terry Richardson again.

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.

My faith is everything.

As a high-fashion model, I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photo shoots.

If you’re posting pictures to platforms like Instagram or Twitter, be selective about the one you post. If I’m capturing a sunset, I’ll take at least 10 pictures. I’ll then filter them using other apps, enhance them. Then, I really pick the best image of perhaps 30.

A little personal trick: apply brown eyeliner throughout the day and then just add a little black over the top for a night look.

I think being true to yourself is ultimately the best way of living.

Connecting with fans is very important to me and useful, too! It’s almost as if I have my own focus group. If I put up one picture that gets 1,000 likes and one that gets 15,000 likes, it gives me a big clue as to what people like to see.

Something I always look for in an outfit is to have a standout piece.

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.

For me, anytime I see a mother truly loving her child, famous or not, it brings a smile to my face. I think most people would agree.

Girls are told they’re not skinny enough, or they hear, ‘She’s old. She’s boring. We’ve had her. She’s not tiny anymore.’ A lot of people don’t take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.

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.

When I started modeling, I didn’t feel like I had a big sister to tell me how this industry works.

For a small population, Canada has always had a very strong and vibrant style.

I’ll probably always have some black in my accessories, but it’s also important to have a pop of color.

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.

I’ve always been the type that, every few months, I’m like, ‘Let’s change the haircut one more time.’

It’s hard sometimes because people don’t take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she’s taking a photo, that’s as good as she is.

As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I’m funny; I think I’m clever. But in the end, they’re picking me for my cheekbones or if I’m tall enough.

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.

Everyone always remembers my dancing.

Don’t get me wrong: ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is fantastic. They’ve done 20 seasons, so they’ve obviously done something right. But I think what ensures that the winner of ‘The Face’ will become a working model is the prize – a year-long contract with a cosmetics company is huge.

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.

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.

Nowadays, we have to break the molds to what it means to be a model in 2016.

In ten years of modeling, I’ve trained myself to relax and be able to use my upper body.

So many girls second-think their pose or what they’re doing. And, in turn, the photos will come out really unnatural. I say to really give the camera a performance – that, and make sure you’re comfortable with how you look, and give it a good smile and a filter.

You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who’s thinking, ‘How are they judging me?’

I don’t get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair.

My wedding dress is a piece of art that I’ll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.

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.’

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.

You can teach a girl how to model, how to take a pretty picture, and how to walk, but you can’t teach personality.

As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.

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.

Jean Paul Gaultier is not only immensely talented but also a genuinely sweet and kind person.

Don’t have just anyone run your social media. I think it’s insane when brands or celebrities relegate their social media to an intern or someone who does not know them well.

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

If it weren’t for my Irish dancing, I wouldn’t be modeling.

I’m kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I’m from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

French designers are classic, chic, and traditional.

Having worked with many of the world’s top modeling agencies for the last decade, I’ve seen what works and doesn’t work in managing a model’s career.

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.

Designers from Milan think that ‘more is more,’ like Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana.

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.

I’m obsessed with historical English royalty.

I think balancing work and family takes constant adjustment. Its not something you can say you’ve accomplished and move on.

Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves.

I don’t think it’s fair for people to put fellow beings down just because they’re only known for their looks.