DANIELLE: TMI

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PREFERENCES & TASTES

Food

• Danielle is known for her love of healthy veggies and fruits; she’s especially a fan of carrots.
  • Danielle loves to eat cabbages and pumpkins.
  • Danielle also likes Korean food cooked by her mother.
• Danielle prefers soft peaches to hard/crunchy ones.
• Danielle prefers carp bread with red bean filling to shu cream filling; she prefers to eat carp bread from the tailrather than the head.
• Even though Danielle is quite young, she makes sure to take various health supplements, including pill for joint care and omega-3 pills.
  • Danielle has once recommended striped maple tree juice, supposedly beneficial for liver health, to Hyein.
• Danielle’s favorite drink is milk. She also likes to drink most types of teas.
• Danielle loves to make yogurt bowls at home with her family, with nuts, granola, and fruits.
• Danielle has mentioned her love for hot chocolate multiple times, especially dark hot chocolate.

Hobbies

• Danielle’s hobbies include drawing/sketching, listening to music, and swimming.
  • She’s known for being the “handiest” member of NewJeans; skilled at drawing, self-makeup, and cooking.
  • Danielle carries around a little notebook on which she can draw and sketch whenever inspiration strikes.

Likes and Dislikes

• Danielle’s favorite color is baby blue. She has said that she likes most colors, and especially bright colors.
• Danielle is a fan of the Harry Potter franchise; her favorite Harry Potter movie is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
  • Danielle has said that she would like to be either a Hufflepuff or Gryffindor, and that her favorite characters are Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood.
• Danielle is also a fan of Disney films.
  • She has said that she cried after watching Bridge to Terabithia, and watched Bambi every time she visited her grandparents’ house.
  • She is also a fan of the Narnia movie franchise.
  • She has recommended listening to the Peter Pan original soundtrack before going to bed, as it feels like it will lead to pleasant dreams.
  • Danielle’s favorite Disney princesses are Ariel, Belle, and Rapunzel; her favorite out of the three is Belle. As a child, her nickname was “DaniBelle.”
• Danielle loves songs from The Sound of Music, and she is also a big fan of Julie Andrews.
• Danielle has mentioned three movies that she thinks are perfect for days that you spend in bed; The Lord of the Rings triology, The Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.
  • All three recommendations are favorites from her childhood, from which she has said that she learned a lot from.
• Danielle loves koalas. When she went camping with her family as a child in Australia, she saw a koala near her family’s tent deliberately chewing a eucalyptus leaf in a very slow fashion.
  • After seeing that koala chewing, Danielle has always tried to slowly chew everything that she eats, carefully trying to taste all of the flavors.
  • She has called herself “koala-like” whenever she eats something.

OTHER TRIVIA

• Danielle has said that she is the “Vitamin D” of NewJeans.
• Danielle’s Korean name, Mo Jihye, takes her Korean mother’s surname; her English name, Danielle June Marsh, takes her Australian father’s surname.
  • As she has a Korean citizenship, her legal name in Korea is her Korean name, Mo Jihye.
• Danielle’s morning routine every day includes: stretching, drinking a warm glass of water, and taking probiotics.
• in 2023, Danielle has said that her nigttime routine before bed always includes putting on hand cream; she puts the hand cream on the soles of her feet as well, and puts a “hot pack” over her belly, turns on the humidifier and wears the silk scarf given to her by her mother.
  • She has said that she uses the same hand cream that she had been using since her time in Australia (coconut & lime scented), also making sure to use room spray before bed.
• Danielle is the most flexible member of the group, coming in first place in the flexibility test on Idol’s Physical Race.
• Danielle has said that if she hadn’t become an idol, she would have become a veterinarian.
• Danielle has an older sister who is four years older than her, named Olivia Marsh / Mo Gyuna.
  • Olivia / Gyuna had also been active as a kid model, and has released an OST (”LAVA”) for a K-Drama (HIDE) in 2024 with the stage name GYUNA.

DANIELLE’S NICKNAMES

Most of the nicknames on this page have originated from Korean media or conversations held in Korean among members.