When Huang was little her family was poor. Her father worked at the Pingtung Distillery, earning a monthly salary that was insufficient to support a family of six children. As a result, Huang's mother had to think up other ways of making money to help the family, buying miscellaneous batches of products and then riding on her motorbike to various villages in the countryside where she would sell them.
黃淑慧小時候家境清寒，父親任職於屏東酒廠，每月微薄的薪水不足以養六名子女，母親只好想辦法賺錢，去批購一些南北貨，再騎著小本田機車到各村落販賣。