Influencer Simonboy welcomes baby boy after wife's 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, have 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 to his Instagram account, which has over 97,000 followers. He also 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 shared on his 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 also showed a clip of Eong trembling due to contraction pains.

He added that the couple, who got married in 2024, named their son Sunny in the hope that he will be happy and cheerful.

"We also pray that he will be a shining light to the people around him," Khung wrote.

He also posted on his 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, whom he reunited with for the first time in 11 years in 2024.

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

Khung, who last saw Megan in 2017 before he was incarcerated for three years for drug offences, posted a picture of her on April 3 and apologised to the late girl after her abusers were handed their sentences on the same day.

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

Khung also shared an Instagram Story on April 3 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."