TOP MODEL on the Body Image, Pressure of Industry and How She is Dealing with Hate | Coco Rocha

✨ Create stunning presentations, websites, and more in seconds with Gamma, the all-in-one AI content tool. Let AI handle the design while you focus on growth. Try it now: https://gamma.app/ For over two decades, Coco Rocha has defied fashion industry expectations, balancing her supermodel career with motherhood while working with top brands like Chanel and Vogue. Despite facing setbacks, including contract losses due to pregnancy and backlash over her TikTok presence, she became a key advocate for labor laws protecting underage models. As an entrepreneur, she founded the Coco Rocha Model Camp and co-owns Nomad Management, where she mentors and shapes the next generation of talent. Coco on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cocorocha/ Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🔗 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co 📹 Video brainstorming, research, and project planning - all in one place - https://partner.spotterstudio.com/ideas-with-marina 💻 Resources that helps my team and me grow the business: - Email & SMS Marketing Automation - https://your.omnisend.com/marina - AI app to work with docs and PFDs - https://www.chatpdf.com/?via=marina 📱Develop your YouTube with AI apps: - AI tool to edit videos in a minutes https://get.descript.com/fa2pjk0ylj0d - Boost your view and subscribers on YouTube - https://vidiq.com/marina - #1 AI video clipping tool - https://www.opus.pro/?via=7925d2 💰 Investment Apps: - Top credit cards for free flights, hotels, and cash-back - https://www.cardonomics.com/i/marina - Intuitive platform for stocks, options, and ETFs - https://a.webull.com/Tfjov8wp37ijU849f8 ⭐ Download my English language workbook - https://bit.ly/3hH7xFm Timestamps: 00:00 – Teaser 00:42 – How she manages it all: the real support behind Coco 03:00 – The reality of working with her husband 06:15 – How to stay relevant for 20+ years in fashion 08:02 – People gravitate toward how you work, not how you look 08:26 – Will AI models replace humans? 09:10 – The skills AI can't replicate — how human models stay irreplaceable 10:47 – Models should learn from content creators 11:54 – 'There’s no traditional path anymore' — why aspiring models need to throw out the rulebook 13:21 – The backlash from the fashion industry over her TikToks 15:18 – The confession: "I’m actually a stay-at-home mom most of the time" 18:00 – "If you see me on an airplane, I’m crying" 19:33 – Why she chose to have 3 kids while still modeling 21:35 – She lost contracts because she got pregnant — the industry's brutal response to motherhood 22:23 – The law she helped pass that changed fashion forever 23:00 – The unexpected backlash that followed 24:08 – How she deals with hate and negativity 26:20 – The power of not responding right away 27:28 – Coco’s beauty & travel survival tips 29:25 – The craziest thing that happened to her on set 30:42 – What she’d tell her 15-year-old self 32:05 – 'Here’s where I see myself in 5 years' I use affiliate links whenever possible (if you purchase items listed above using my affiliate links, I will get a bonus). #podcast #siliconvalleygirl #cocorocha

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1. CRCoco Rocha
  at the age of 14, 15, it's get on a plane, do a shoot, come home. If it was back then, go to school-
2. MMMarina Mogilko
  Yeah
3. CRCoco Rocha
  ... do your homework.
4. MMMarina Mogilko
  What's the craziest story that happened to you through career?
5. CRCoco Rocha
  Oh, there's too many. Being in a room that's just full of fire.
6. MMMarina Mogilko
  Oh.
7. CRCoco Rocha
  Being in water. Working with an elephant. They have to pee every 15 minutes. If you see me on the airplane, I'm crying. I wanted to be a mom more than anything, but I didn't even think what that means-
8. MMMarina Mogilko
  Yeah
9. CRCoco Rocha
  ... for a model. Career is not that important.
10. MMMarina Mogilko
  What about AI? H&M just replaced their models.
11. CRCoco Rocha
  Why keep everyone around that's mediocre?
12. MMMarina Mogilko
  Absolutely.
13. CRCoco Rocha
  It's easier to use AI. But if there is still these core people with great values and who are so good at their job, yes, people will still wanna be around them.
14. MMMarina Mogilko
  How do you become that model?
15. CRCoco Rocha
  Eh.
16. MMMarina Mogilko
  Coco, thank you so much. I'm enjoying this camp a lot, giving me so much energy, and this is your 147th-
17. CRCoco Rocha
  Yes
18. MMMarina Mogilko
  ... time doing it. [laughing] Where does the energy come from?
19. CRCoco Rocha
  I honestly, sometimes at the end of it, I'm like, "Wow, we did that one more time," but it really has to do with the energy of the room. And as you saw, sometimes at the beginning, people can be shy or bashful, and you're like, "Oh, gotta get it out of them." And then there's a moment, something changes in the room, and everyone's excited. So it's really not my energy. You're feeling their energy, and it, it, it helps me, too.
20. MMMarina Mogilko
  How do you manage this? So you have a camp-
21. CRCoco Rocha
  Mm-hmm
22. MMMarina Mogilko
  ... that runs 10 times a year. You are a top model.
23. CRCoco Rocha
  [laughing]
24. MMMarina Mogilko
  You have three kids, and you also have a modeling agency-
25. CRCoco Rocha
  Mm-hmm
26. MMMarina Mogilko
  ... and you invest in businesses.
27. CRCoco Rocha
  Yes. [laughing]
28. MMMarina Mogilko
  Okay, tell me how this all works.
29. CRCoco Rocha
  Yes, I think that it's funny how people see the name of anybody, like Coco Rocha, and therefore, she must do it all. It's beautiful teams. We have a fantastic team led by my husband here at Model Camp. I have fantastic managers at Nomad, but plus my personal managers, who, again, my husband is my manager. So I guess, like, family-oriented is really important. Like, we keep our business and family, you know, it's close at hand. Because, as you see, my daughter's here. S- it's not like it's one and the other. It's all one thing. So we make sure that our teams can support us, you know, personally, that can, like, be part of the business. We have great-grandparents that help with the kids. I... Yeah, I just think, like, the behind the scenes is what people don't register on, especially content creators, models, uh, athletes, actresses, and actors. They usually just think it's just us [laughing] doing-
30. MMMarina Mogilko
  Yeah

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