At the age of ten, Thúy left Vietnam with her parents and two brothers, joining more than one million Vietnamese boat people fleeing the country's communist regime after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
在十歲時，金翠與父母和兩個兄弟離開越南，加入了超過一百萬的越南船民，他們在1975年西貢淪陷後逃離了越南共產黨政權。