Influencer Simonboy & His Wife Welcome Baby Boy After 45-hour Labour

After a gruelling 45-hour labour, local content creator Simonboy, whose real name is Simon Khung, and his wife Chloe Eong, also known as Simongirl, welcomed a baby boy.

Their son Sunny was born in the early morning of April 9 and both mother and child are well.

Khung, 37, posted pictures of the newborn on the same day on his Instagram account, which has more than 97,000 followers. He wrote on behalf of Sunny: “I also want to thank my mummy for enduring for 45 hours till I’m out. I love you, mummy.”

Khung posted on Instagram Stories that he and Malaysia-born content creator Eong, 33, arrived at the hospital on April 7 at around 9am as Eong went into labour. Sunny was born at around 6am on April 9. Khung included a clip of Eong trembling with contraction pains.

The couple, who got married in 2024, named their son Sunny in the hope that he will be happy and cheerful. “We also pray he will be a shining light to the people around him,” Khung wrote.

He posted on Instagram Stories that Sunny has “one big korkor (older brother) and one jiejie (older sister), forever they will be”.

The thrice-married Khung has a son from his first marriage, with whom he reunited for the first time in 2024 after 11 years.

He also had a daughter, Megan, from his second marriage. She made headlines when she died in 2020 aged four after a year of abuse at the hands of her mother, Khung’s former wife Foo Li Ping, and Foo’s then-boyfriend Wong Shi Xiang.

Khung, who last saw Megan in 2017 before he was incarcerated for three years for drug offences, posted an apology to her on April 3, the same day her abusers were handed their sentence.

Foo was sentenced to 19 years’ jail while Wong was sentenced to 30 years’ jail and 17 strokes of the cane.

Khung added that “nothing is ever enough to give (him) any good closure”.

He reflected that it has been five years since Megan’s death, and it was “no coincidence” that the sentencing came a week before Eong was due to deliver their first child.

He took it as a sign for him to move on, adding: “I know that every ending is a new beginning. But help me, Lord... I’m suffocating. Take away my anger.”

This article was originally published on The Straits Times.