- Yoko Horiuchi
is a Japanese model mainly working in
Japan . Horiuchi has belonged exclusively to a fashion magazine "CanCam ", which is the highest sales female fashion magazine in Japan, since she was a college student. She has been hired by a talent agency Pearl that also managesYuri Ebihara andMoe Oshikiri who are super popular fashion models in Japan.Biography
*Horiuchi has been graduated from
Hokusyo University located inHokkaidō in 2004. When she was a college student, she was scouted by a local model agency while walking in a shopping mall. After that she worked not only as a model but also as a TV reporter before belonging with "CanCam ".*Because Horiuchi became a model of CanCam after only few months from her debut, she is sometimes called "
Cinderella girl". Despite this, she was a short and plump girl when she was a child. Once going to a junior high school, her height had grown to 5.3, and being slender figure resulted fromsoft tennis . Incidentally, her current height, 5.5, is the lowest line of Japanese fashion models.*When she attended the university, she came to
Tokyo in case of every working.*According to an interview, she said that actually she was not good at performing in front of everybody, so she had gotten a lot of troubles in the beginning.
*She has been
Canada in order to study English for several months. Additionally,Moe Oshikiri and her stick together with the same interests of English.*She thinks about herself as a little bit
devil's advocate .*She is into playing sports and exercise, especially riding a bicycle. Plus, she is very good at
horseback riding andcalligraphy . Her routine customs are watching movies and listening to music.*Although her home town, Hokkaidō, is a very cold region, she really does not like a cold climate.
*Her best friend is
Maimi Okuwa who is also a model for CanCam. Enough that they often travel together.
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