{{short description|Former Japanese bikini model and singer (born 1977)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox adult biography | name = Yuko Aoki | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|2|5}}<ref>Infobox data from {{cite web|url=http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?aokyuk01|title=青木 裕子 (Aoki Yuuko)|access-date=2007-08-01|date=August 11, 2002|publisher='Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary)|language=ja|archive-date=2016-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908123253/http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?aokyuk01|url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_place = Yamagata Prefecture, Japan | spouse = {{marriage|Unknown|2010}} | years_active = 1995–2010 | height = {{convert|1.60|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | native_name = 青木 裕子 | alias = | website = }} {{nihongo|'''Yuko Aoki'''|青木 裕子|Aoki Yūko}} (born on February 5, 1977, in Takahata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan) is a former Japanese bikini model and singer.<ref name="labbio">{{cite web|url=http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/yuko-aoki-labo/base_html/pr_5.html|script-title=ja:青木裕子・バイオグラフィー+プロフィール|publisher=Yuko Aoki Laboratory|access-date=2007-07-30|language=ja}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Career== She first started modeling in 1995, and became a "Visual Queen of the Year" at Fuji TV for 1996.<ref>Hoffman, Michael. (December 1, 1996) Mainichi Daily News ''Here comes tomorrow Da Capo guides readers toward the millennium with tales of hormone juices and sex.''</ref><ref name="web-i-dic">{{cite web|url=http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?aokyuk01|title=青木 裕子 (Aoki Yuuko)|access-date=2007-08-01|date=August 11, 2002|publisher='Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary)|language=ja|archive-date=2016-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908123253/http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?aokyuk01|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was a frequent cover girl on Japanese bikini photo magazines in the late 1990s. She appeared in the advertising campaign for Suntory's {{nihongo|Milpower|ミルパワー|mirupawaa}} product.<ref name="web-i-dic"/>
Aoki stopped modeling in 1998, and officially retired from modeling in 2000 to focus on a music career.
In February 1998, Aoki held a healing music concert at Casals Hall, near Ochanomizu Station in Tokyo.<ref>Asahi Shimbun (February 26, 1998) ''Weekend/Bulletin Board.''</ref> In June 1999, she sought to raise money through her singing for the refugees in Kosovo.<ref>Matsumoto, Chei. (June 3, 1999) Asahi Shimbun ''Singing her heart out for peace: Vocalist Yuko Aoki hopes her songs of hope and love will have a healing effect on the lives of refugees from war-torn Yugoslavia.'' Weekend section.</ref> On December 16, 2002, Aoki revealed a chocolate covered statue of David Beckham in Tokyo to generate publicity.<ref>{{in lang|es}} Mural (Mexico - InfoShare Communications Inc.) (December 17, 2002) ''Choco-Beckham.'' Section: Deportes; Page 3.</ref> In 2003 she released an album titled ''Blue'' on the Universal Japan label. She is currently the lead vocalist for the band Icy Blue. She has been the cover model for (and subject of major articles in) nearly fifty issues of various magazines in Japan,<ref name="lab">{{cite web|url=http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/yuko-aoki-labo/base_html/pr_5.html|title=COVER GALLERY 常設展示室・表紙ギャラリー|publisher=Yuko Aoki Laboratory|access-date=2007-07-30|language=ja}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> including ''Weekly Playboy'''s March 12, 1996 issue.<ref name="web-i-dic"/>
Aoki started appearing for professional wrestling promotion Hustle in 2005, acting primarily as an announcer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/japan/hustle/hustle.html|title = Hustle}}</ref> In February 2006, Yuko got in a storyline in which she would audition for a full-time job in Hustle, but general manager Hiroko Suzuki verbally attacked her and made her cry until Wataru Sakata came to her rescue. Aoki became Sakata's valet, and helped him to win a match against Hiroko's husband Kenzo Suzuki.
===Private life=== In 2010, she retired from the entertainment industry after getting married. After her retirement, while raising children, she worked at her parents' conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Yonezawa.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-11 |title=伝説のグラドル「青木裕子」いまは回転寿司店で接客中 |url=https://smart-flash.jp/entame/14177 |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=Smart FLASH/スマフラ[光文社週刊誌] |language=ja}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060320224356/http://www.aoki-yuko.ne.jp/ Yuko Aoki official site (in Japanese)] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060427154013/http://www.universal-music.co.jp/aoki_yuko/index.html Universal Japan album page] *{{IMDb name|0031838}} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdfN_YwYHOU Yuko Aoki video from Japanese television program] * {{cite web|url=http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?aokyuk01|title=青木 裕子 (Aoki Yuuko)|access-date=2007-08-01|date=August 11, 2002|publisher='Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary)|language=ja|archive-date=2016-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908123253/http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?aokyuk01|url-status=dead}}
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