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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.”

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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.

Name	Bonny Hicks
First Name	Bonny
Last Name	Hicks
Occupation	Model
Birthday	January 5
Birth Year	1968
Place of Birth	Kuala Lumpur
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Birth Country	Malaysia
Birth Sign	Capricorn
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Parents	Betty Soh, Ron Hicks
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Not Known
Children(s)	Not Available

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In 1992, two years after Hicks’ controversial entry into Singapore’s literary scene, she published her second and last book, Discuss Disgust. The novella, literarily more sophisticated but never as popular as her first book, portrays the world as seen through the eyes of a child whose mother is a prostitute. In it, Hicks continued to openly discuss sexuality and in veiled terms even broached the taboo of sexual abuse, both subjects that were not normally spoken of openly in Singapore during the time. Adding fuel to the controversy surrounding Hicks, a widely read local traditionalist columnist dubbed it “another one of those commercial publications which pack sleaze and sin into its hundred-oddpages” (sic). While public understanding was greater than let on, traditionalist social pressures meant that few people publicly accepted the novella for what it actually was: Hicks’ semi-autobiographical account of her own troubled childhood years, an only partially veiled yet immediately unsuccessful cry for the public to reinterpret her early adult years through the trauma-lens of her childhood.

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.

Net Worth	$5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Model
Cars	Not Available
House	Living in own house.

Hicks is a transitional yet often still-controversial figure who lived and died a tragic death amid an important period of debate over changes between traditional and globalised Singapore. Both in life and in death, her status as a writer came to eclipse her status as a model. Today she is most recognised for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature that spoke out on subjects not normally broached in her society, and the anthropic philosophy contained in her writings. Describing the consensus of Singaporean literary scholars in 1995, two years before Hicks’ death, Ismail S. Talib in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature stated of Excuse me, are you a Model?: “We have come to realize in retrospect that Hicks’s autobiographical account of her life as a model was a significant milestone in Singapore’s literary and cultural history”. This recognition preceded Hicks’ death, and in light of the controversy, and even the societal shunning she faced because of her early writings, took her and many around her by surprise. It also helped fuel the life transition she underwent prior her death.

Part of Hicks’ plan was to attend university. Although Hicks publicly downplayed her lack of higher education, she privately expressed regret that she had not studied past her A-levels, a fact traditionalist critics had used against her and her writings with no small frequency. During the year leading up to her 1997 death, Hicks applied to numerous universities in Britain and the United States, including Harvard. During her application processes she called upon her Harvard mentors to exert influence on her behalf, which certainly helped overcome any negative effects that remained from Hicks’ unremarkable academic record during her youth. At the time she applied, Hicks could present herself as an exceptional candidate to any university she wished to attend, a veritable shoo-in. Here was a young woman who had overcome a very difficult upbringing to become a nationally known model-turned-author, and whose mind, spirit, and insights had authentically impressed the two high-level academicians who had become the predominant mentors of her life transition and letter of recommendation writers. Hicks soon reported through the Singaporean press that she had received one university acceptance, refusing to say where, stating that she was awaiting other possible acceptances before ultimately deciding where to attend.

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Hicks published her first work Excuse Me, Are You a Model? in Singapore in 1990. The book is her autobiographical exposé of the modelling and fashion world and contains frequent, candid discussion about her sexuality, a subject that was not traditionally broached in Singaporean society at the time. The work stirred significant controversy among Singaporeans who held traditional literary and moral standards. Traditionalists considered Hick’s work a “kiss and tell” book that disclosed “too much too soon” from an independent woman still in her early twenties. Singaporean youth, on the other hand, had a starkly different view; twelve thousand copies were sold within two weeks, prompting the book’s publisher to boast Hicks’ work as “the biggest book sensation in the annals of Singapore publishing”–an accurate claim.

One of Hicks’ new mentors was Tal Ben-Shahar, a positive psychologist and popular professor of psychology at the time at Harvard University. Hicks reached out to Ben-Shahar after being exposed to his writings, and the two corresponded about philosophical and spiritual matters for approximately one year, on up until Hicks’ 1997 death. The correspondence later became basis for a 1998 book by Ben-Shahar, in which he narrated Hicks’ profound growth during the year.

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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,

Facts & Trivia

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.

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