Personal Life
Born in Hong Kong, Lee is the youngest of three children and was born to a Chinese Malaysian father and a Hong Kong Chinese mother. She has two elder sisters, Nancy, who was her manager before, and Carol. Her father died when she was young. When she was 9 years old, her mother brought Lee and her sisters to live in San Francisco. There, Lee went to Presidio Middle School, where she was the volleyball team captain. After middle school, she attended Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School in San Francisco, where she was student council president for four years in a row. In 1991, she represented her high school in the Miss Teen Chinatown Pageant, winning first place. She also won first place in a local karaoke contest. She studied medical biology at the University of California Irvine.
Lee married Bruce Philip Rockowitz, a Jewish-Canadian businessman on 27 October 2011 in a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony in Hong Kong. For her wedding, Coco registered the song I just wanna marry u (Chinese and English version), which was released on October 24, 2011.
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