HOANG THUY
(hwang thoo-ee)
/ MISS UNIVERSE VIETNAM 2019 /
If HHen's keyword is authenticity, Hoang Thuy's keyword is determination.
/ Intro video /
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/ THE STATUS /
- It was announced on May 6 tthat Hoang Thuy is Vietnam's representative at Miss Universe 2019.
- The "Miss Universe Vietnam 2019" competition will be held in December 2019 to choose Vietnam's rep for Miss Universe 2020.
Videos:
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* I'm certain she will be sent to the same Filipino coach that trained HHen, so I'm not too worried. She's already good, she will get better.
This is a very small side of her that I was able to learn. I will let her tell the rest of her story in months to come.
- She's from a poor family originating from central Vietnam, an area yearly affected by typhoon and flood. 20 years ago a big flood washed away all of her family's little possession. They never really recovered, and she grew up in poverty.
- Her family had to rent a house (which is rare in Vietnam). Once, the landlord took back the house, they had to live in a tent for a while.
- As a child, she used to sell rice cakes on coach buses.
- People used to say to her: your parents are so poor, you're a girl why do you still go to school and not find a job to help?
- Her family is a family that values education more than anything, so they sent her to college to study industrial design despite circumstances.
- While in college, she dreamed of escaping poverty, so she joined Vietnam's Next Top Model to change her family's life.
- She won because of Tyra Banks: despite the Viet producers told Tyra to choose a more popular choice, Tyra handpicked Hoang Thuy as the winner because Tyra wanted to push diversity when it comes to beauty.
- Just like HHen, Viet people and beauty standard do not consider her beautiful. She has always been a victim of extreme cyberbullying because of that.
- A new dream was born after: to bring the image of Vietnam to the international stage.
- Without an ounce of English, she flew alone to the UK, France and the US to go casting. She averaged 10-15 castings a day during that time, most people said no. For years, many trips without any call back but not once did she think of giving up. She improved herself with every trip.
- At a point, she sent more than a 100 emails to agencies for a chance. She finally got one response.
- She participated in London international fashion week, became a pioneer of Viet model that successfully made it overseas.
- She worked abroad for 3 years before coming back to Vietnam to compete in MUV to take her dream to a whole new level.
- She was THE favorite to win the crown, then ended up as H'Hen Nie's the first runner-up.
- The day after H'Hen made it to the historic top 5, Hoang Thuy announced her community project: "I Choose to Live Green", combating the influences of global warming. Poor Trump I believe her advocacy will be environment focus.
- To be fair, I have no idea how good she is speaking about social/political issues because nobody asks her about those.
- But what she's usually asked, she answers them well.
- While HHen is laid back and genuine, Hoang Thuy is confident, certain and clear when she speaks. They are both the best Viet pageant speakers there is, though HHen is more likable because of how unbelievably authentic and carefree she is (well she's more likable than almost everyone who participated in the last 10 years). Thuy is also likable, she never gives off bad vibes to anyone.
- She for sure has much much better English than Hen. Though it's not enough to be used in interview rounds, she should have no problem communicating with anyone.
*This video is not in English, but you can tell she isn't afraid of speaking at all.
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- Talking about determination, she used to be a meme of speaking terrible English. She took all that embarrassment and studied like hell, now she's a very okay English speaker. She still attends classes regularly, and is learning English catered to the Miss Universe competition.
- While HHen was in Thailand, Thuy worked with her teachers about potential advocacies and how to speak about them in English. Right after the final, she and her teachers dissected the top 5 and top 3 questions. Bitch has a clear goal and is determined to get it.
- The same team that worked with HHen will now be working with Thuy. Same stylist, same national director, same team, and this team has HHen in it for sure.
- The (cute) national director said that they will cater their training to each candidate. They understand that who a woman is as a person is very important, so applying the same mold to train every girl is not going to work.
- She has been and is in the process of gaining weight. She has gained about 5kg, and her goal is 10kg. It's terribly hard for her to gain weight, she said there were times she just wanted to throw up the food.
- She has been wearing braces for a few months, and will probably take it off right before the competition. During this time, her smiles will look funny lol
I came accross this commercial she did recently which is quite fitting to where she is right now. So I translated it for y'all:
With the insane pressure to follow her predecessor, there is no more deserving woman to follow HHen than Hoang Thuy.
I wish her luck and will follow her closely on her journey