Years active: 2006 - present (started around 18 years old; 18 years in the business)
About Coco Rocha
Mikhaila "Coco" Rocha is a Canadian model. She is known as one of the first "digital" supermodels, and is known for her advocacy for younger models. As an author, she collaborated on the 2014 book Study of Pose. Rocha is also the founder of the Coco Rocha Model Camp and co-owner of the Nomad Management Modeling Agency.
Rocha was born Mikhaila Rocha in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, where she attended Hugh McRoberts Secondary School. Her family is in the airline industry. She has two siblings. She is of Irish, Portuguese and Ukrainian descent.
Rocha wrote the foreword to Canadian fashion reporter Jeanne Beker's book Struttin It!, about the modeling profession.[33] In March 2011, she announced the launch of her new website[34] said to contain almost 10,000 pictures covering her entire career as a model so far.[34]
In 2014, Rocha released the book Study of Pose with photographer Steven Sebring, an encyclopedia of 1000 poses modeled by her, including those from her influences like Botticelli's Venus and Jessica Rabbit.
Rocha has been a devout Jehovah's Witness since childhood, and in a 2013 interview stated that she still participates with Jehovah's Witnesses in their practice of preaching door-to-door. She calls herself "a Christian first and a model second", and says that due to her faith she will not pose nude, with cigarettes, nationalistic emblems or religious icons.
Rocha married artist James Conran on June 9, 2010. They have 3 children: a daughter, Ioni James Conran (born March 28, 2015), a son, Iver Eames Conran (born April 20, 2018), and a second daughter, Iley Ryn Conran (born November 22, 2020).
