Đặng Thu Thảo (born February 15, 1991) is a Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Vietnam 2012.

When first moving out after getting married, her family's income mostly came from her father's salary for teaching which was not a lot, while her mother worked as a farmer and part time tailor.

She asked for her mom's permission that she would start to work in 1 year in order to earn money for tuition fee.

Due to her work requirement which she needed to wear make up everyday made her concerned about her skin condition, she decided to quit her job to become drink mixer.

However, Mr. Phan Van Thom - principle of Tay Do University gave some evidences to prove that she was granted to take the exam twice, which was not allowed to be public, however everyone was still confused about this incident.

Later, the organizer of Miss Vietnam 2016 said that she took university entry exam with another 25 people so "being specially treated is not this case" Later, it was said by the press that her father - Mr. Dang Van Dat caused accident for the teacher named Xuan which made her paralyzed ever since.