Bonny Hicks

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bonny Hicks
Occupation	Model
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1968(1968-01-05)
Age	56
Date Of Death	December 19, 1997, Palembang, Indonesia
Birthplace	Kuala Lumpur
Country	Malaysia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bonny Hicks Biography

Bonny Hicks is one of the most popular and richest Model who was born on January 5, 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Remembered as both a fashion model and an author, Hicks is famous for her socially groundbreaking books Excuse Me, Are You a Model? (published in 1990) and Discuss Disgust (1992). She also penned an autobiographical and controversial newspaper column titled “The Bonny Hicks Diary.”

She and fellow Malaysian-Singaporean author She and fellow Malaysian- Singaporean author Catherine Lim both became known for their socially-themed work. both became known for their socially-themed work.

Bonny Susan Hicks (5 January 1968 – 19 December 1997) was a Singapore model and writer. After garnering local fame as a model, she gained recognition for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature and the anthropic philosophy conveyed in her works. Her first book, Excuse Me, Are You A Model?, is recognised as a significant milestone in the literary and cultural history of Singapore. Hicks later published a second book, Discuss Disgust, and many shorter pieces in press outlets, including a short-lived opinion column in a major Singaporean daily that was pulled due to public dissent from Singaporean traditionalists.

Hicks’ modelling career began with the September 1987 cover of a now-defunct Singaporean fashion monthly, GO. She followed this with multiple appearances on other covers, print advertisements, catwalk appearances in designer clothes, and in a music video for a top-10 hit by the Singaporean band The Oddfellows. A year into her modelling career, Hicks began writing about her life experiences and ideas stemming from her modelling. By age twenty-one she had completed her first book, Excuse Me, are you a Model? She continued to model for five more years and in 1992, at the age of twenty-four, released her second book Discuss Disgust. Hicks then left modelling to take a job as a department lead and copywriter in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the time, Hicks reiterated a statement she had made in her first book: that she had never wanted to be a model in the first place. Instead, her dream since age thirteen had been to be a writer. It was then that she had begun keeping a diary of her feelings and experiences, a practice she continued throughout her life.

Born in Malaysia as the biological child of Englishman Ron Hicks, she spent the majority of her youth in Singapore in the care of her mother, Betty Soh.

Bonny Hicks Net Worth

Bonny Hicks is one of the richest Model from Malaysia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bonny Hicks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While studying at Hwa Chong Junior College, she began her modeling career at the insistence of her mentor, professional swimmer-turned-talent-agent Patricia Chan Li-Yin.

Tragically, she and her fiance, architect Randy Dalrymple, were killed in the 1997 crash of SilkAir Flight 185 while traveling from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore.

Hicks was born in 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to a British father, Ron Hicks, and a Cantonese-speaking Singaporean-Chinese mother, Betty Soh. Her parents separated shortly after her birth and Soh relocated to Singapore in 1969 with her infant daughter. There, Hicks’ formative social environment was multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and included Malays, Indians, and Chinese of various dialect groups. Although Hicks was biracial, she identified as Chinese during her early childhood, speaking Cantonese and watching Chinese-language television at home.

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Hicks had also became a student of Confucian humanism, and she was particularly attracted to the thought a second Harvard professor, Tu Wei-Ming, a New Confucian philosopher, who became a second new mentor to Hicks. Hicks attended Tu’s seminars and the two corresponded over some months. With Tu’s influence added to that of Ben-Shahar’s, Hicks began to exhibit an increased New Confucian influence upon her thinking, and she soon turned in her occasional Straits Times columns to criticising Singaporean society from the theme. In one piece, she expressed dismay about the “lack of understanding of Confucianism as it was intended to be and the political version of the ideology to which we [as Singaporeans] are exposed today.” Just before Hicks’ death she had submitted what Editor Richard Lim recognised as her most mature column ever to The Straits Times. The daily posthumously published “I think and feel, therefore I am”, on 28 December 1997. In it Hicks argued,

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Bonny Ranked on the list of most popular Model. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Malaysia. Bonny Hicks celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.

Hicks died at age 29 on 19 December 1997 aboard SilkAir Flight 185 when it crashed into the Musi River on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, believed to be an act of suicide and mass murder by the Singaporean pilot. All 104 passengers aboard the flight died. After Hicks’ death, numerous publications including the book Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny Hicks by Tal Ben- Shahar featured her life and thought.