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At size 4, supermodel Coco Rocha says she's out of luck

Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 03:42 PM
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Irish Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha, who I interviewed for Irish America's June/July 2009 cover story, claims that she's not getting work because she's (gasp) a SIZE FOUR. Although she's appeared for Zac Posen and Diane von Furstenburg this fashion week, Rocha says she's not in demand anymore. The New York Times quoted her as saying, "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.

"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?"

Coco has spoken out before about the problematic expectations of the fashion industry (in which the sample size industry standard is a size zero). When I interviewed her last July, she said, "When you start off you have to have a certain body type. I mean, that’s why we get [recruited] so young. Your body hasn’t even gotten to that peak yet. So when you start aging and your body is changing, people want it to stop, they don’t want that happening. … You can’t please everyone. If Client A and Client B want two different girls, are you somehow going to get both of them? No. If you don’t want me today, someone will want me tomorrow.”

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Temerity | Feb 20, 2010, 03:43 PM EST
Take the gays out of the key positions in the fashion industry and you will stop this conspiracy against the " Real woman image" they hate it and that's the truth.They like all models skinny boobless and boyish.Need I say more.

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Temerity | Feb 19, 2010, 11:52 AM EST
I remember in 1964 the standard size was 10-12

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LepTheLeopard | Feb 18, 2010, 07:46 PM EST
She should work for Chanel! The name tie-in is a natural! (unlike the figures of most models)

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