Vũ Hà Anh

Vũ Nguyễn Hà Anh (born 10 April 1982) is a Vietnamese model, pop singer, songwriter, TV host and author. She has competed in some beauty contests at home and abroad, earning top 10 Miss Universe Vietnam 2008 and won the title of the 2nd Runner-up Miss Vietnam Global in the same year. She is one of the very few Vietnamese models who worked early and actively in the international fashion industry. Ha Anh also has made contributions to Vietnamese fashion as one of the participants in the negotiation meeting with Elle France international team to bring Elle magazine to Vietnam.

In addition to her modelling career, Ha Anh has embarked on other areas, including being host of Vietnam's Next Top Model 2010 season, judge of Elite Model Look Vietnam 2015, Miss World Vietnam 2016, Miss Universe Vietnam 2022 and Miss Global International in 2 consecutibe years of 2015 – 2016 plus many other beauty pageants. Having her own production company, First Face Co., Ltd, which produced series of fashion and entertainment events for both local and international brands in Vietnam. Ha Anh is also involved in charity work for various causes. She is the second Vietnamese person chosen by UNICEF to be a goodwill ambassador for children's rights in Vietnam for two consecutive years. And in August 2013 become a Global Angels Ambassador. She launched a singing career and released three singles. As a writer, her latest bestseller 'Sống Trong Thế Giới Đàn Ông" has been published four times.

Early life and education

Hà Anh was born on 10 April 1982 by her mother Lệ Hà, a journalist. She has a younger sister Hà Mi born seven years later and a similar-aged cousin named Đốm. When she was nine, her grandmother gave her Michael Jackson's album Dangerous, sparking her a love for music. She studied at Hanoi – Amsterdam High School in Vietnam and abroad at Broomsgrove School in England. At the age of 18, Ha Anh started working as a model at MOT Models in England, which is considered the starting point of her artistic career. She claimed that during her first year at the University of Reading, she was persuaded by her employer and mother to pursue becoming a fashion model. However, despite what she said, many people found out that she did not go to the University of Reading but a small English school which was bought by University of Reading later on. She has yet to completed the education program to earn the graduation diploma as well.

Career

Modeling

Ha Anh was spotted by MOT Models from "Best Potential Model" and "Face of Asia" contest in London. Ha Anh has claimed that she has profound experience in gracing many major fashion shows, especially lingerie ones organized at London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, Hongkong Fashion Week, Shanghai Fashion Week; being the exclusive face for lingerie brands such as Rosy Paris, DKNY, formerly Redken Tribe; taking photoshoot for luxury fashion houses (such as Chloé, Gucci) and other renowned brands (including Lynx Clothing, Tony & Guy). She was invited to attend the New York Fashion Times and the launch event of the 20th America's Next Top Model in California, USA. However, according to many fashion experts, with her physical characteristics, Ha Anh hardly has any opportunities to rock the haute couture runways. In addition, the Supermodel also has no pictures or the other alternative evidence to convince the public of such self-claiming career achievements whatsoever. Hence, a broad section of the public started to call her a "Holy Boaster" aka "Thánh nổ" in Vietnamese.

Ha Anh was chosen to replace Huong Giang at the Asian Top Fashion Model of the Year award in China's Asian Fashion 2010 award system and reached the final top 5 of the award.

She appeared on the famous talk show Woody Talk broadcast in Thailand, paired with famous male MC Woody Milintachina of the Golden Temple country. Previously, she had made her mark as an MC in the show Style Setter of the TV channel Star World. And has participated in many other large and small international events with many different roles such as model, jury, MC. Ha Anh is the first Vietnamese Supermodel to appear on the prestigious international Fashion TV channel Star World in 2015 as a special guest and Host of the Style Setter program thanks to her fluent English.

She also worked as the general director of the catwalk for the once famous "Thoi Trang & Nhan Vat" Series and other fashion shows featuring local and internationak brands in Vietnam.

Beauty contests

She represented Vietnam at Miss Earth 2006 in the Philippines.In May 2008, she participated in the first Miss Universe Vietnam. She ended up being ranked 10th but shocked both the audiences and the organizing committee by quickly heading straight to the backstage instead of staying and cheering for the contestants who made it to top 5. She continued to participated in various contests and finally earned the 2nd Runner-Up of Miss Vietnam Global in 2008.

Musical

Her first public appearance as a singer was at Miss Earth 2006. On 28 November 2011, her first single was released as a DVD at ''Harper's Bazaar'' magazine. Her music video, ''Model (Take My Picture)'', is criticized for being provocative and low quality.Three days later, Hà Anh promoted herself in a minishow called ''It's Me, Hà Anh'' at the Park Hyatt Hotel. /sup> On 6 April 2012, Hà Anh held a second mini-show in Hanoi entitled ''From the Very Start'', to release her eponymous second single. Her third single, "Put It on Me", was released in 2014 in a video co-starring the Hollywood actor Robert Parks-Valletta.

Television

In 2010, Hà Anh, Huy Võ and Đức Hải were invited to replace the judges for the first season of ''Vietnam's Next Top Model''. 0/sup> After the contest, Huy Võ and Hà Anh, assisted the winner, Huyền Trang, in establishing a business in New York.

Ha Anh hosted "Hanh Ly Tinh Yeu" – "The Baggage Vietnam" season 3 broadcast on national commercial television channel VTV3 in Vietnam.

Writing

In 2013, Ha Anh released her autobiography, a collection of her personal blog posted from the year she started her career and travelled the world to work until the time when she was back in Vietnam. In 2016, she launched her second book "Song Trong The Gioi Dan Ong" which soon become popular as a handbook of love and confidence for women and young audience in general.It has been published 4 times that make Ha Anh the 1st successful model-writer.

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References

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1982 births
Living people
People from Hanoi
Vietnamese female models
Miss Earth 2006 contestants
21st-century Vietnamese women