Runner-up Thuy Van spends more than half a billion VND on tuition each year for her child.

Despite investing a lot in her son’s education, Thuy Van does not expect Tony to become a talented person. She only hopes that he will grow up happy, joyful and always have a passion to pursue.

Tony's curriculum is mainly in English, so she always arranges time for the mother and son to read Vietnamese books together for 10 minutes every day. The runner-up is proud of her son because he is smart, adorable and understanding.

Thuy Van and her son Tony in Hai Duong in the summer of 2021. Photo: NVCC

Tony, real name Cao Hoang Minh, 10 years old this year, is the first "sweet fruit" in the marriage of Thuy Van and her rich husband. The older her son gets, the more curious he is about the world around him, sometimes making Thuy Van worried because of the difficult questions to answer. She is afraid that she will be negligent and let her child get caught up in things that she does not really understand or perceive clearly. There were times when she wanted to quit all her work and just stay home to accompany her child, but she was afraid that life would be unbalanced, so she told herself to find a way to understand him.

The runner-up couple do not spoil their child but are not too strict either, always trying to become close friends with their child. Thanks to that, Tony is willing to share everything with his mother. Whenever he has a question, he will remember it and bring it home to ask his mother when she has time to talk. Thuy Van's secret to being close to her child is to often tell him about her work and discuss it together. She feels lucky because her son likes to share with his mother and is very affectionate. Every time he sees her staying up late and waking up early to go to work, no matter how much he wants to be with his mother, he still makes her go to bed early and eat well to stay healthy.

Thuy Van attends a tourism promotion event in Nghe An. Photo: NVCC

Thuy Van was born in 1986 and has been working as an MC since before being crowned 2nd runner-up of Miss Vietnam 2008. For many years now, she has been known as a program editor.24h movementShe graduated from Hanoi Foreign Trade University and has a Master of Business Administration from the Institute of Management and Technology, FPT University.