Phi Nhung's Cinderella's career is truly a tale of will and perseverance overcoming life's many obstacles and hardships. Growing up in Pleiku, Vietnam and being an Amerasian and a child of a single parent, Phi Nhung has had to endure much ridicules and humiliations in her childhood.
While many of her contemporaries enjoyed carefree teenage years, Phi Nhung had to be independent very early in her life. She lost her mother when she was eleven and had to quit school after her 6th grade to work as a seamstress to support her five siblings while living with her maternal grandparents.
In October 1989, Phi Nhung came to the United States through the Amerasian Resettlement Program and lived with her aunt in Tampa Florida
