Lilia Vu, an American golfer, was born and reared in Fountain Valley, California. However, she is of Vietnamese descent via both of her parents. Douglas, her father, was born and reared in the United States, although his family was originally from Vietnam. Kieu Thuy, her mother, immigrated to the United States several years after her daughter was born in Vietnam. When the war ended in 1975, her family was still in Vietnam.
Thuy’s family had hoped for a better life after the war, but her father, Dinh Du, became gloomy. They eventually fled the nation on a boat in 1982 and landed in the United States. Lilia now has American citizenship and competes for the US in international events. Her mother still misses Vietnam, and they go there on occasion to see family who live there.
