The family of trucking magnate Lindsay Fox is used to being in the news – sometimes for the wrong reasons. But Coco Fox, the 17-year-old daughter of Lindsay’s second son, Peter Fox, is hoping to make headlines for herself as a fashion model.

Coco, who is in Year 11 at Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne, will make her catwalk debut in her home town next month, and says her grandfather has given his blessing. She says it’s a bit daunting forging her own career with the Fox name, but “my parents will support me, no matter what I do. It’s a bit intimidating, but I have grown up with it my whole life.”

Although Lindsay, 85, hasn’t had any direct business interests in fashion aside from logistics, Coco says he has imparted plenty of lessons about life and business to her two siblings and many first cousins.

“He’s always taught us to be very hard-working and do what you love, to knuckle down and give your all,” she says.

As far as other industry connections go, Coco’s older sister, Hannah, studies fashion at RMIT and works at Australian brand Oroton. Coco was also inspired to follow in the footsteps of her friend, Melbourne model India Wollard.

Away from the camera, Coco is a world champion cheerleader, representing Australia in the world championships when she was 14. On TikTok, Coco lip syncs and dances to hip-hop songs, between videos of her weekends jetting to Sydney on private planes and staying at Boomerang, the iconic property in Elizabeth Bay the family has owned since 2005.

If her modelling career takes off, Coco would join a long line of scions with careers in fashion including Kaia Gerber (daughter of Cindy Crawford), Lily-Rose Depp (daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis), and Ivanka Trump, before politics.

Ivan Bart, president of IMG Models & Fashion, once gave this advice to celebrity children in a feature in Racked magazine: “You were born into a very privileged situation, but now it’s up to you to make that situation into something for yourself.”