Who is Kellie Chauvin?
A chance meeting brought Kellie Chauvin close to Derek. Born on October 21, 1974, she is a Hmong American former radiologist and beauty queen. When she was three, her family left Laos. In 1977, they fled to safety in Thailand and lived in a refugee camp.
Memories of those times still haunt Kellie when they left everything and carried just a few possessions on their backs. She once confessed that she stopped eating oatmeal because it was an echo of those dark days at the camp. Kellie wore a boy s jacket to keep herself warm as she had no winter wear.