EXCLUSIVE Baby Lucky's influencer parents raised eyebrows after their desperate plea landed them $200,000 in donations. Now they've made a drastic move which has triggered a new wave of outrage By Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia Published: 13:00, 4 July 2024 | Updated: 13:01, 4 July 2024 e-mail View comments The parents who raked in almost $200,000 in donations to fly their sick baby Lucky from Bali to Australia for treatment are at the centre of a new controversy after making a radical change to their alternative lifestyle. Ex-Melbourne fashion influencer Honey Ahimsa and her Canadian van flipper husband Pan launched a GoFundMe last year to charter a flight for their daughter Lucky, who had sepsis and pneumonia and could not be treated in Indonesia .
Generous Aussies donated $190,000 to save the then-seven-week-old, who doctors in Bali gave just a 50 per cent chance of survival, according to Ms Ahimsa. Lucky was flown to Brisbane on a medevac flight and transferred to the Gold Coast where doctors treated her successfully. An Instagram follower asked Ms Ahimsa if she would donate any excess GoFundMe money to Siloam Hospital in Denpasar, where Lucky was first treated.
Ms Ahimsa said she would - but questions were asked when the comment was later mysteriously deleted . She has since provided little explanation of what happened to any additional funds. The family moved back to Bali in July last year where they were renovating a villa and had plans to launch an online cou.
