Hollywood: 2011-02-13

coco rocha canadian fashion model.

Coco Rocha born Mikhaila Rocha on September 10, 1988 is a Canadian fashion model.
Contents
* 1 Personal life
* 2 Career
* 3 References
* 4 External links
Personal life
Rocha was born in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Richmond, British Columbia at a very young age. Her family is in the airline industry. Her mother, Juanita, is a flight attendant and her father, Trevor Haines, is a ticket manager. She has one sister named Lindsay and one brother named Greg Morandin. She is of Irish, Russian, and Welsh descent.
Rocha is one of the few models who has spoken out against the prevalence of eating disorders in the modeling industry. She has acknowledged the pressure she faced as a fledgling model and recalls becoming obsessed with food after a trip to Singapore where she gained ten pounds.In an email to the Associated Press, she gives an insight into the fashion world, saying: "I'll never forget the piece of advice I got from people in the industry when they saw my new body ... They said, 'You need to lose more weight. The look this year is anorexia. We don't want you to be anorexic but that's what we want you to look like."
Rocha married interior designer James Conran on June 9, 2010. wedding dress was designed by Zac Posen.
Career
In 2002, agent Charles Stuart approached Rocha at an Irish dance competition and asked her if she would consider modeling for him. At that point, she had never thought of modeling before. When she did begin to model, her knowledge of fashion was limited. She eventually gained insight into the fashion world after her best friends crammed in fashion study sessions in between studying for exams.
Rocha started her professional career in 2004, signing with SUPREME in New York City. Two years later, Rocha met fashion photographer Steven Meisel. Soon, she was featured in an editorial with Gemma Ward and Amanda Moore. The editorial kickstarted her career, landing her the cover of the February 2006 issue of Vogue Italia. The week after, she walked the Spring/Summer 2006 New York City runways for a handful of designers, most notably Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. Backstage at the Anna Sui show, Rocha met model Naomi Campbell, who held her hands and told her she was "her new favorite model".[6] After the New York Fashion Week, she soon followed by taking part in the Paris Fashion Week as well. She walked for esteemed designers like Stella McCartney, Shiatzy Chen, Christian Lacroix, and Emanuel Ungaro, and was chosen by Marc Jacobs to open and close his Louis Vuitton show.[citation needed]
During Jean Paul Gaultier's Scottish Highlands-inspired Fall/Winter 2007 show in February 2007, Rocha opened the show by Irish-dancing down the runway; American Vogue dubbed this the "Coco Moment" and suggested it as a sign that the fashion industry misses the "supermodels".
In the May 2007 issue of Vogue (US), she was featured on the cover with fellow models Doutzen Kroes, Caroline Trentini, Raquel Zimmermann, Sasha Pivovarova, Agyness Deyn, Jessica Stam, Hilary Rhoda, Chanel Iman, and Lily Donaldson as the new crop of supermodels.
Rocha has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including Vogue, Flare, Fashion, Numéro, French, W, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed & Confused, i-D, Time Style & Design, among others.
Since her debut, Rocha has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including Americana Manhasset, Balenciaga, Chanel, D&G, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Lanvin, The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Yves Saint Laurent and Rimmel.
Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.
In July 2010 Rocha appeared on vogue.co.uk every day for the entire month in the feature Today I'm Wearing. She followed in the footsteps of Alexa Chung and Olivia Palermo to showcase her fashion and style choices each day. The following month, Rocha appeared on a billboard in Times Square for an ad campaign with Marie Claire magazine in partnership with Project Runway in which she modeled a contestant's winning design.
She hosted the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards white carpet.

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Jillian Michaels the Biggest Loser

Jillian Michaels born February 18, 1974 is a personal trainer from Los Angeles, California.Michaels is widely known for her appearance on The Biggest Loser and Losing It With Jillian.
Contents
* 1 Career
o 1.1 The Biggest Loser
o 1.2 Losing It With Jillian
* 2 Lawsuits
* 3 Personal life
* 4 References
Career
Michaels began her career in exercise because she was overweight in her early teenage years. In 2009, on the television show The Doctors, Michaels screened a picture of herself when she was twelve years of age stating that she weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) and was 5 feet (150 cm) tall, so she was 65 pounds (29 kg) overweight. When she was thirteen years old, she was enrolled in a martial arts class by her mother, which was a new beginning for Michaels. Thereafter she dedicated herself to helping the overweight transform their lives and their bodies for the better.
She uses a blend of strength training techniques with her clients, including kickboxing, yoga, Pilates, plyometrics, and weight training.
Michaels is a celebrity adviser to National Day of Dance for Heart Health, an organization that encourages people to make exercise fun and to laugh, learn and dance to a healthier heart." She has several exercise DVDs, the most popular[citation needed] being the '30 Day Shred'.
Michaels hosted a Sunday talk radio show on Los Angeles' KFI (640 AM) from 2006 through 2009.
On October 21, 2008, she launched a new video game called Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for the Wii. A year later, she launched a sequel called Fitness Ultimatum 2010.
Michaels' business partner and manager is Giancarlo Chersich. Together they operate Empowered Media.
The Biggest Loser
She made her debut on episode 1 of season 1 of The Biggest Loser, in 2004. Michaels was the Red Team trainer until 2006, when she was replaced by Kim Lyons. She returned to the show in 2007 as the Black Team trainer, competing against Kim Lyons' Red Team and Bob Harper's Blue Team. Lyons did not return for the spring 2008 season, leaving Michaels as the only female trainer. Along with Bob Harper, Michaels was also a trainer in the Australian version of the show.
On December 7, 2010, Michaels announced via Twitter that the eleventh season of the show would be her last.
Losing It With Jillian
On June 1, 2010, NBC debuted a new spin-off reality series entitled Losing It With Jillian (aired Tuesdays in the first prime-time slot). The show uses the "Extreme Makeover" model where she targets one family per episode and goes to the home to personally work one-on-one with them for a week, then the last five minutes of the show she returns after six-weeks of the family working on their own with a trainer that the show has paid for.
David Hinckley of the New York Daily News states that the show uses "tacky overdramatic music and silly staged scenes" and is somewhat over-produced, and he would like to see a show "with less extreme cases and less melodramatic packaging".
Lawsuits
In February 2010, lawyer Melissa Harnett filed suit against Michaels, alleging that the Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control dietary supplement was ineffective, and saying that "telling people you can take two magic pills and then eat chocolate cake all day is a deception." Michaels subsequently released a statement saying that "some of the leading weight loss experts in the world" had reviewed the supplement before she endorsed it.
Also in February 2010, a class action suit named Michaels, Thin Care and Basic Research and Walgreens over the potential toxicity of ingredients contained in Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Fat Burner. According to that suit, the supplement contains citrus aurantium, an ingredient that allegedly causes high blood pressure and cardiac problems in certain individuals.
In August 2010, a $10 million class action suit was filed against Michaels and Thin Care International over the ingredients in Triple Process Total Body Detox and Cleanse. The plaintiff in the case is a registered dietician who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. According to the suit, the supplement in question contained ingredients that could allegedly cause gastrointestinal ulcers, digestive distress and even irreversible liver damage. The suit also alleged that these ingredients represented a "potentially lethal combination." The Courthouse News Service reported that the plaintiff claimed that the suit was not about the money, but that "she simply wants [Michaels and Thin Care] to stop poisoning the public and give consumers their money back."
While experts interviewed about the supplements doubted that they could prove fatal, they agreed that they were ineffective. Lynn Willis, professor emeritus of pharmacology at Indiana University called one of the supplements "an absurdity" and "completely bogus." Dr. Keith Ayoob, director of the Nutrition Clinic at Albert Einstein College of Medicine also suggested that "if you have any of these problems or need help losing weight, see your physician, not Jillian Michaels.
Personal life
Jillian Michaels was born in Los Angeles, California on February 18, 1974. She currently lives in Los Angeles. In an interview in the May 2010 issue of Women's Health, she was asked if she would ever consider having children. Jillian's response was: "I'm going to adopt. I can't handle doing that to my body.
In response to criticism that she had insinuated that pregnancy ruined a woman’s body, Michaels explained in a later interview that she felt her words had been misunderstood. In an effort to provide context, she explained that pregnancy would be hard on her body because she had suffered from endometriosis and PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) since she was 16. She said that she had not previously disclosed her conditions for reasons of privacy and because she was afraid people would stigmatize her as not being healthy.

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jessica szohr American actress career

Jessica Karen Szohr pronounced Soar born March 31, 1985 is an American actress. Szohr began her screen career starring on television shows such as CSI: Miami and What About Brian. In 2007, she earned her breakthrough role as Vanessa Abrams on The CW series Gossip Girl.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Filmography
* 5 References
* 6 External links
Early lif
Szohr is of half Hungarian and one quarter African American descent, and was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, a place she describes as a "family-oriented small town". The oldest of five children, Szohr played soccer, served on the student council, and was part of the cheerleading squad while in school.She started a cleaning company with a friend, cleaning their teachers’ houses.
Szohr started modeling at age six. Her first national campaign was for Quaker Oats at age ten, and she also appeared in print ads for Kohl's department store. Subsequent modelling gigs followed, including prints for Crate & Barrel, Mountain Dew, Sears, Jockey and JanSport. Szohr graduated from Menomonee Falls High School a semester early and moved to Los Angeles with her mother at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career. She told Seventeen magazine that she "almost moved home like five times."
Career
Szohr earned her laurels as a frequent presence on U.S. television during the 2000s. She appeared in numerous guest stints in television series such as That's So Raven, My Wife and Kids, What I Like About You and Joan of Arcadia. She also appeared in three episodes of CSI: Miami as Samantha Barrish.
In 2007, she appeared in a major recurring role as Laura for six episodes in the now cancelled ABC Dramedy television series What About Brian. Along with Stacy Keibler, she played a neighbour to the main character Brian O'Hara (Barry Watson). She also appeared in the music videos for Best Days by Matt White and Over You by Daughtry, in which she played Sarah.
In the same year, Szohr earned her breakthrough role on the hit CW Teen Drama television series Gossip Girl. on the novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl’s premise follows the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City. She plays Vanessa Abrams, Dan Humphrey’s (Penn Badgley) childhood friend and occasional love interest. Szohr described her character to Ocean Drive magazine, "Vanessa doesn't change for other people. She says what she thinks. [...] she’s just a badass girl from Brooklyn". The portrayal of Vanessa in the TV series has drawn criticism from Ziegesar, who claimed Vanessa is "one character they ruined".Originally cast as a recurring role, she became an additional series regular after the season one episode The Blair Bitch Project.
She has appeared in small roles in films such as Somebody Help Me, The Reading Room and Fired Up.
Szohr next signed on to Dimension Films' horror Piranha 3D directed by Alexandre Aja. The film was a remake of the 1978 comedy-horror Piranha. In the film, she played Kelly Driscoll, "a hot young townie caught up in the excitement of co-eds who have descended upon the area for spring break." The role required her to be underwater; Szohr later told the New York Daily News that filming was difficult because she was "not the best swimmer."Filming began in June 2009, and the film was pushed back from its original release date in March to August 2010. She also appeared in a Funny or Die video promoting the film alongside Kelly Brook and others.
She was awarded the Breakthrough Actress in Film award at the 2010 Breakthrough Of The Year awards for her work in Piranha 3D.
In April 2010, Szohr joined the cast of the romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Marriage, along with Mandy Moore and Kellan Lutz. The film began principal photography in April 2010 and was filmed in New Orleans.
Szohr will have a role in the independent post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, Hirokin which began production in July 2010.[21] Her role as Orange has been described as a "cunning temptress". She is also set to star in the Eric Amadio directed indie film, Walks alongside Brittany Snow and Rumer Willis.
She will star in the indie drama Art Machine as an outlaw hipster and a pyrotechnic artist. Directed by Doug Karr, the movie is being shot in New York.
Personal life
Szohr has been in a relationship with her Gossip Girl co-star, Ed Westwick from late 2008. In an interview with Teen Vogue, Szohr admitted the two were "just friends" for a year but decided to give a relationship a go when they found themselves single. "It can be a little awkward […] It kind of just happened." Szohr said in the interview, "when all of a sudden [you have feelings for] someone you'd call to talk about a different boyfriend." In March 2010, Westwick split from Szohr but the two reunited whilst filming season 4 of Gossip Girl.
Szohr has an affinity for snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer. She describes her hobbies as a result of her being "from Wisconsin". Szohr has also said that she is a huge Green Bay Packers fan. She currently resides in New York.She also told Parade magazine that, in order to avoid real-life gossip, she doesn’t "read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter -- none of that."
Szohr’s real-life fashion is what she calls "simple and casual." Speaking to Vogue, she said "I wouldn’t say I’m trendy or follow any particular trends." She also has several tattoos, including her grandparent’s anniversary on her left arm and a cherub on her foot.
In 2010, Szohr was named in People magazine's "100 Most Beautiful People in the World".
Filmography
Film Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
2005 The Reading Room Dayva Hallmark Channel Original Movie
2006 House at the End of the Drive Krista
2007 Somebody Help Me Nicole Direct-to-DVD
2009 Fired Up Kara
2010 Piranha 3D Kelly Driscoll
2010 Love, Wedding, Marriage Unknown awaiting release
2010 Walks Unknown in production
2011 Hirokin Orange post-production
2011 Art Machine Cassandra Moon post-production

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rachel bilson American actress career

Rachel Sarah Bilson born August 25, 1981 is an American actress. Bilson grew up in a California show business family, and made her television debut in 2003, subsequently becoming well-known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time drama series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss and starred in the 2008 action/science fiction film Jumper.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Filmography
* 5 References
* 6 External links
Early life
Bilson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Janice (née Stango), a sex therapist, and Danny Bilson, a writer/director/producer Her father is Jewish and her mother, a native of Philadelphia, is Italian American. Bilson's father comes from a show business family; her great-grandfather, George Bilson, (born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) was the head of the trailer department at RKO Pictures, her Brooklyn-born great-grandmother, Hattie Bilson, was a screenwriter, and her grandfather, Bruce Bilson, is a film director. Bilson's parents divorced during her childhood, and in 1997, her father remarried Heather Medway, an actress and the mother of Bilson's half-sisters Hattie and Rosemary.
Bilson has been noted as having a "self-destructive, rebellious period" during her teen years. When she was 14, she and a group of her brother's friends were involved in a car accident, a head-on collision with another car. As a result, Bilson was unconscious for a few days, has a scar above her right eye, and sometimes suffers from migraines and memory loss. She has stated that the experience "changed" her encouraging her to "stop... getting into trouble"and stopping her from "going down that road" and because of this experience she learned to play the piano. Bilson graduated from Walter Reed Middle School in 1995 and from Notre Dame High School in 1999. During her time at Notre Dame, she appeared in productions of Bye Bye Birdie, Once Upon a Mattress and The Crucible.
Career
Bilson attended Grossmont College in a suburb of San Diego, but dropped out after one year,taking her father's advice to pursue a professional acting career and making several appearances in commercials, including advertisements for Subway restaurants, Raisin Bran and Pepto-Bismol. She made her screen acting debut in early 2003, appearing in episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. Bilson was subsequently cast in The O.C., which debuted in August 2003. Her character, Summer Roberts, was initially intended to appear in only a few episodes, but became a series regular after a successful run, as Bilson's on-screen romance with Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) became a noted aspect of the series.
As a result of the success of The O.C., Bilson has become well-known among teenage audiences. At the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, Bilson collected three awards: "Choice Hottie Female", "Choice TV Actress (Drama)" and "Best Onscreen TV Chemistry" (jointly won with Adam Brody). In 2005, Maxim magazine named her sixth in their annual "Hot 100 List"; in 2006, the publication awarded her #14. The UK edition of FHM Magazine named her 28th in the 2006 100 Sexiest Women in the World list, while the US Edition Ranked her 77th in 2005.Bilson was also named one of People magazine's "100 Most Beautiful People" in 2006. In January 2008, radio host Howard Stern named her the "hottest chick in Hollywood."
Bilson's first film role was in The Last Kiss, a romantic comedy-drama also starring Zach Braff. In the film, which opened in 2006, she plays a college student who seduces Braff's character. It was reported that she called for a body double during the sex scenes because she was uncomfortable being nude in front of the camera. She does appear in the scene for the final film, wearing a flesh-colored bra. "I was terrified!" she admitted. "But Zach really helped me through it, and we're friends, so he made it very comfortable, and Tony made it very comfortable, and it was actually a really nice setting. And I'm happy I did it, because I can say I did my first sex scene, and I never have to do that again!" One review of the film noted that Bilson played the role with "surprising depth", although another critic described her role as "Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction as an airhead (slang) valley girl with a hot bod"
Bilson has stated that she prefers acting in feature films to appearing on television, and that she would like the kind of roles "that Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson are offered". has specified that though she is "grateful" for the success of The O.C., feels that the show "is over" and that she is "ready to move on" to film roles. In September 2006, unconfirmed reports surfaced that Bilson was linked to star in a film version of the comic book character Wonder Woman; has stated that these reports were untrue.
In late 2006, Bilson was cast in the role of Millie in Doug Liman's thriller Jumper, as the replacement for actress Teresa Palmer; the film was released on February 14, 2008. She also appeared in a two-episode arc on The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz's NBC comedy, Chuck, and in the film New York, I Love You, and appeared in the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother ("Girls Versus Suits") as Ted Mosby's latest love interest. In September 2008, she started shooting the indie romantic film Waiting For Forever, directed by James Keach. She stars in the upcoming indie film BBF & Baby next to Krysten Ritter and Kate Bosworth. The film began production in Los Angeles in October 2010. In September 2009, Rachel appeared as a celebrity guest judge in the third episode of Project Runway (season 6).[citation needed] In that same episode, she described her height as