Coco was immersed in the world of Irish dance when a man approached her at a competition and asked if she’d ever wanted to model before. She was a young teenager at the time and initially didn’t take his offer seriously, but he persisted and, with her mom’s permission, she eventually agreed to try it.
“All of us thought it was some kind of joke — or that this man needed glasses,” Coco said. “If you think of a model, you probably think of a gorgeous, beautiful bombshell of a woman — not so much a lanky 14-year-old girl at an Irish dance competition.”
“Despite all of that, I then went along to a modeling convention that agents from around the world were attending. Usually you’ll get called back by one or two, but I got callbacks from all of them, which was kind of crazy,” she added.