Cassey Ho is a known American fitness celebrity who is known for her YouTube channel and her website where she sells all items connected to fitness.
Early years
She was born on January 16, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Cassey was born to her chinese and vietnamese parents named Bach Ho and Cuu Ho. She has a younger sister Jacquelin.
Although she was born in Los Angeles she has spent all of her childhood in San Francisco.
From 2001 to 2005 she helped her mother to lead a bakery named ‘Cooplex Cookies & Candies”.
She became aware of her body in very early age because she was chubby and the other kids treated her badly.
She was 16 years old when she discovered Pilates and she started taking care of what she eats.
She was also very interested in fashion and wanted to become a fashion designer.
Although both of her parents wanted her to become a lawyer or doctor they are now satisfied with her work because they see she’s very pleased by the impact she leaves on many people and they help the work of her clothing company.
She was a student at James Logan High School and in 2003 she became “Miss Teen of Chinatown” beauty contest.
After that she enrolled Whittier college with full scholarship because she wanted to become a doctor.
Ultimately she got her bachelor’s degree in biology and graduated in 2009.
Career development
She started being interested in creating a a fitness business but connected with fashion while she was a student at college.
It was in 2007 that she won an award for her designs on San Francisco Fashion Week.
She collaborated with a clothing company from San Jose called “Effie’s Heart”.
In 2009 she opened her YouTube channel and started posting her videos which gained a lot of attention by the public.
At the same time she decided to move from LA to Boston where she will start working as a fashion buyer.
Since she was already working part-time as an instructor of Pilates at the college she started uploading her videos to help her pupils workout after she would move to Boston.
Although she was working in Boston for a year she didn’t like her job, and eventually she started to look for another income.
This was encouraged by the fact that she returned to teaching classes and she enjoyed it more than her regular job.
Cassey started doing more and more videos and gained thousands of subscribers in a short period of time.
After that she partnered with Youtube and in 2010 Shape magazine advertised her bags which became a huge hit and she earned a lot of money on them.
That’s when she personally travelled to China and signed a contract with manufacturers there, who started making all of her fitness apparel items.
Cassey received a Shorty Award back in 2013 in the category “Fitness on social media”. She wants to promote healthy habits and a natural lifestyle.
In 2017 she was put on the list by “Time” magazine as one of the 25 most influential people on the internet. Her YoTube channel is called Blogilates.
She is an instructor of Pilates on her Blogilates Channel end receives a lot of income from it.
She has her own shop of items including clothes for Pilates and various accessories: tops, bottoms and others.
She released her first DVD called “Pilates Total Body Workout’ in 2014 and it could been bought in Target stores.
After that she released a book called “Cassey Ho’s Hot Body Year Around: the POP Pilates plan to get slim, eat clean and live happy through every season”. This was in 2015.
She wanted to get more closer to her fans so she decided to start hosting a Pop Pilates event where she meets with almost 500 women and men and works out with them, signs autograph and takes photos with them.
In 2014 she had over 100 million views and over 1 million subscribers.
In 2012, she won a Blogger Award for best healthy living blog given by Fitness Magazine.
In 2014 her YouTube channel was the highest ranked fitness channel on YouTube.
The same year she released a clothing collection named Body Pop.
2 years later she has launched her new collection called Pop Flex.
She also believes that YouTube is a great platform to impact people to take care of their body and eat healthier for a better lifestyle.
She had an eating disorder after extreme training for a bikini competition where she ate too little and trained for 5 hours a day which caused her body to break down.
After she learned about it hard way, she wanted to explain it to others and stop them from any fitness routine or training that wasn’t healthy and sustainable for a very long time.
In 2015 she was negativly commented and most of the comments were about her body so she posted a YouTube video called “The “perfect” body” where she responded to this cyber bullying by saying to them that they cannot make her feel bad and that she is pleased by her body.
Personal life
She got engaged to her boyfriend Sam Livits in 2017 and she announced it on her Instagram.
She is known for her saying which is involved about fitness and it says: Train Insane or Remain the Same”.
Quick summary
Full name: Cassey Vinh Ho
Date of birth: January 17, 1987
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Age: 31
Profession: pilates instructor, youtuber, social media celeb
Height: 1, 65 m
Weight: 52 kgs
Net Worth: $2 million
