

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. 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. In 2007, she was one of 18 winning designers featured at the "Emerging Stars" fashion show that occurred during San Francisco Fashion Week. Ho started her online fitness businesses while she was still in college. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in biology.
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She went to Whittier College on a John Greenleaf Whittier full tuition scholarship with the career aim of becoming a doctor. Her father, in response, told her that she would fail, make no money, and have no friends. When she was 16, she told her father that she wanted to be a fashion designer. She told Asian Fortune that coming from an Asian culture, her parents expected her to choose a career as a doctor or lawyer.

In 2003, she won the San Francisco Miss Teen Chinatown beauty pageant. Ho has also said that it was her "childhood dream to become a fashion designer." Her interest in fitness and nutrition began when she was 16 and discovered Pilates. When she was a teenager, she started a bakery with her mother called "Cooplex Cookies & Candies," which lasted from 2001 to 2005.

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. Her parents are Bach Ho and Cuu Ho and she has a sister named Jackelyn, who is a yoga instructor. Ho is Chinese- Vietnamese American and was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2017, Ho was listed in Time's third annual list of "The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet". In April 2015, Ho responded to negative comments about her body by creating a YouTube video called The "Perfect" Body. Target subsequently apologized for altering the photo. In 2014, after seeing a photoshopped photo of a model on Target’s website where the model had an unnatural-looking thigh gap, Ho wrote on her blog calling attention to the health implications of this type of photo editing. In 2013, she received a Shorty Award in the category of social fitness. Cassey Ho Vinh (born in Los Angeles, January 16, 1987) is an American social media fitness entrepreneur with a YouTube channel and a website that sells fitness apparel.
