Coco Rocha quotes:
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Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.
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Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.
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From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.
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I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.
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Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.
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Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.
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I am a girl, so I never looked at my dad's body and thought that's what I need to look like.
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Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!
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It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'
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I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.
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Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.
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I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am.
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I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.
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I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.
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I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!
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How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.
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Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"
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There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.