Stacey McKenzie Helps Women Thrive!

Life has never been busier for international supermodel Stacey McKenzie as she shares her beauty and modeling expertise from television to cyberspace.

After months of her valued involvement in Canada’s Next Top Model, America’s Next Top Model, MTV’s Made, and The Tyra Banks Show, supermodel Stacey McKenzie is now bringing her X-factor to cyberspace as a beauty mentor to Thrive! – a new organization on the web that helps women achieve more in their lives through connection, as it provides a place for women “to connect and take online friendships offline with the goal of personal growth and ultimately giving back to the communities in which they live.”

Stacey McKenzie has already worked for many major markets and top designers around the world including Tommy Hilfiger, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Alexander McQueen. She has been on the covers of famous fashion magazines like Essence, Le Monde and Panache. She has also appeared for editorials in Vogue (US, Japan, Korean, British, Spanish), Harper’s Bazaar, and Vibe magazines among others.

When it comes to helping women understand their true beauty and potential, supermodel Stacey McKenzie is an inspiration. As a black supermodel with unique features, she has gone through many criticisms in the fashion world to prove that women who do not fit the typical standard of beauty can also become the standard.

She agreed to become a beauty mentor when she learned about the site's goal of empowering women to act:

“What I think will really resonate with woman is the fact that they develop real friendships where they live. Not just with someone on their computer who lives in a different country. There’s also something within us women that comes alive when we can make a positive difference. I think many women want this and they just don’t know where to begin...”

Coco Rocha: The Bouncy Teen Canadian Supermodel

Aside from her rising career in the fashion world, the 19-year old Canadian teen supermodel Coco Rocha is also known for her signature bouncy, confident gait.


Coco Rocha was scouted at 14 during a Highland dancing event in Vancouver. Guess who singled her out for a modeling career? The controversial but undeniably one of the most successful and beautiful supermodels to date – Naomi Campbell!

Naomi Campbell told the young Coco Rocha "I like your walk." It was the beginning of a phenomenal modeling career for the raven-tressed beauty of angular features and pale complexion.

Nearly six-foot, Coco Rocha's bouncy, confident gait becomes her signature as a model just as Gisele Bündchen is known for her hair or Kate Moss for her personal style.

As a sensational teen model, Coco Rocha has already landed the covers of Italian Vogue and American Vogue, which has named her as one of the Top 10 Models of 2007. She has also been featured in countless editorial spreads and runway shows, including Highland dancing in full regalia for Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Being featured in Gaultier has greatly helped her career. As for her dancing, the young model confesses, "I hear comments like, 'Oh, it's a dancer. Oh, it's Coco!' It's good to be able to show I'm not just a model who knows how to walk in heels."

Today, the teen supermodel already owns a Manhattan pied-à-terre, and a luxurious Blackberry cellphone which only a few girls her age can afford.

Coco Rocha has been in recent fashion weeks in London and New York, but as she visits her nativeland for the L'Oréal Fashion Week, the bouncy teen Canadian supermodel just wants to keep things light:

"It's important. Its nice to come home and - I don't want to say 'be a celebrity' - but be able to say Canadian girls make it out there."