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Christine Hà (Vietnamese: ''Hà Huyền Trân'', born May 9, 1979 in California),〔(Profile at Ventureexpeditions )〕 is an American chef, writer and TV host from Houston, Texas. She is the first blind contestant of ''MasterChef'' and the winner of its third season in 2012. ==Profile== Hà is the only child of parents of Vietnamese-origin and she lived in Lakewood, California and Long Beach as a young child before her family moved to Houston.〔Rene Lynch, ('MasterChef' finalist Christine Hà on being blind, and a fighter ), LA Times, September 5, 2012〕 She revealed that her mother passed away from lung cancer when she was 14.〔(Masterchef US Season 3 Episode 19 ) 〕 Her paternal aunt also died from the same illness, even when both were non-smokers.〔Christine's Twitter.〕 Hà suffers from neuromyelitis optica, in which a person's own immune system attacks the optic nerves and spinal cord. In 2004 she was diagnosed and gradually started losing her vision, and was almost completely blind by 2007, and describes her vision "as looking at a very foggy mirror after a hot shower".〔(Blind chef serves up tough competition ), FoxNews, September 09, 2012〕 Despite this, she uses adaptive technologies on her Apple products to help her manage her social media by herself.〔(Episode 4: How the Blind Email, Tweet, and Blog (or "Yes, That's Really Me on Facebook!") ) 〕 She received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance/MIS from University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and a Master of Fine Arts degree for creative fiction/nonfiction at University of Houston's Creative Writing Program in 2012.〔(Christine Ha at Zoominfo )〕 She recently received the editor's poetry prize from The ScissorTale Review and was a finalist in the 2010 Creative Nonfiction MFA Program-Off contest.〔 She also serves as Fiction Editor for Gulf Coast Journal and her work has appeared in Fire Point, The ScissorTale Review, and PANK Magazine among others.〔〔 In January 2014 she began hosting the cooking Television show Four Senses on AMI-TV. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christine Ha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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