Cassey Ho

Cassey Ho Vinh (born January 16, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) is an American social media fitness entrepreneur with a YouTube channel and a website that sells fitness apparel.

When she was a teenager, she started a bakery with her mother called "Cooplex Cookies & Candies," which lasted from 2001 to 2005.

Her interest in fitness and nutrition began when she was 16 and discovered Pilates.

Ho has also said that it was her "childhood dream to become a fashion designer."

She went to James Logan High School.

In 2003, she won the San Francisco Miss Teen Chinatown beauty pageant.

She told Asian Fortune that coming from an Asian culture, her parents expected her to choose a career as a doctor or lawyer.

When she was 16, she told her father that she wanted to be a fashion designer.

Her father, in response, told her that she would fail, make no money, and have no friends.

She went to Whittier College on a John Greenleaf Whittier full tuition scholarship with the career aim of becoming a doctor.

In 2007, she was one of 18 winning designers featured at the "Emerging Stars" fashion show that occurred during San Francisco Fashion Week.

She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in biology.

Ho started her online fitness businesses while she was still in college.

Ho started posting fitness videos on YouTube in 2009 after she decided to move from Los Angeles, California to Boston, Massachusetts for a full-time job as a fashion buyer.

She had been a part-time Pilates instructor and wanted to provide the students she was leaving with online fitness workouts after she moved to Boston.

The first video she uploaded to YouTube was called "POP Pilates: Total Body Sculpt video" and she had considerable trouble with its quality, audio, and editing.

After she uploaded the video, she received a number of comments requesting more videos on specific workouts for different muscle groups such legs, thighs, and abs, but she didn't pay attention to these requests for months.

Nine months after she moved to Boston to work as a fashion buyer, she decided to quit because she disliked it.

She started teaching Pilates classes 12 times a week to pay for her food and rent.

She found teaching Pilates this often physically tiring, but because she was not working full-time, she had time to make more workout videos.

She began uploading her new videos to YouTube and her views and subscribers began to rapidly increase.

She then became a YouTube Partner and her website blogilates.com dramatically increased its web traffic.

She also believes that a feature of one of her bags in Shape magazine in 2010 was a contributing factor in the success she has had in her career.

After her bag was featured, she realized that she could make money selling bags and went to China to talk to manufacturers of bags.

When she started her YouTube channel and began her Internet marketing of clothing, bags, mats, and fitness apparel, she briefly worked with a PR company, but decided she could handle PR for her businesses.

By October 2012, three years after she uploaded her first video to YouTube in 2009, she had 166,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel Blogilates

She was interviewed by Forbes in 2012 as a woman who is rapidly becoming a star on YouTube along with several other women such as Issa Rae and Cassandra Bankson.

She has been described as a poster child for Asian American entrepreneurial success on the Internet.

In 2013, she received a Shorty Award in the category of social fitness, and was listed in Time's third annual list of "The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet" in 2017.

Ho is a Vietnamese-Chinese American and was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Her parents are Bach Ho and Cuu Ho and she has a sister named Jackelyn, who is a yoga instructor.

Ho described how she grew up 'chubby', and that the way other children treated her made her become more aware of her body when she was young.

and by January 18, 2014, she reached more than 100 million views on her YouTube channel.

By April 2014, her YouTube subscribers had increased to 1.2 million and a month later she had reached 138,000 Twitter followers.

By December 2014, her Blogilates channel on YouTube had 1.8 million subscribers, 8 million views a month, 60,000 views a day, and is the top fitness channel on YouTube and by October 2016, her Blogilates channel on YouTube had over 3.2 million subscribers.

Her workout videos are often featured in online newspapers and videos.

She is also considered a successful social media marketer who has appeared as an example of a successful social-media fitness entrepreneur in the book Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies and other social media "how to" books.

In 2014, Lionsgate's BeFit YouTube channel added Ho to their channel lineup.

In an interview with EContent Magazine, Ho stated that she believes that one reason for her success on YouTube is because she keeps her videos "fun and playful."

At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, she led yogilates workout sessions at the YouTube lounge.