As told to For AAPI Heritage Month, Glamour spoke to actor about what it was like chasing her dreams in Hollywood as the eldest child of a first-generation Thai and Hmong family, and how the resilient love of her immigrant parents motivated her.
Below, Song recounts the early days of her acting career, passing up Harvard University for her role as London Tipton on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and becoming a mother to her one-year-old .I got in this industry really young.
I used to watch Star Search all the time and loved One day, my mom and I were in the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento and an acting school was doing a model search.
My mom was at a kiosk while I was watching. I started doing the modeling walk, so they came up to my mom and gave her the whole spiel to try to enroll me.
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