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Oh, what we would give to walk a day in the well-heeled shoes of KIM LIM, heiress, social media star and supercool mother-of-one. But she’s so much more than just a real-life Crazy Rich Asian with a Kim-possibly privileged life. JONATHAN FAM talks to the daughter of billionaire philanthropist Peter Lim.

- Jonathan Fam

WHAT is it like to have the all the money in the world? We would imagine it would involve picking friends up on your private jet like it was an Uber (too soon?), having the world’s most famous soccer player be the first person outside of your family to visit you in the hospital after you give birth, and throwing baby parties that cost more than a person’s annual income. These may seem like the most unattainable of fantasies for 99% of the world’s population but they are just part and parcel of the fabulous life of Kim Lim, social media star and daughter of self-made billionaire Peter Lim.

Yet, in a way, even with all those bells and whistles that come with being a real-life Crazy Rich Asian, she’s really not that different from you and I. Or at least she doesn’t behave like she’s different.

She has no airs about her. She stumbles into the 8 DAYS studio — without a PR minder or bodyguard in sight — clutching her belly and groaning about how she’s not feeling all too well. “I’m having cramps,” she pouts as she collapses into a chair, her straight black hair gently cascading down her shoulders. Mind you, this is the first time we’re meeting the 26-year-old heiress and mother-of-one but it already feels like we could have been roomies in boarding school… which would be impossible since the Singapore Chinese Girls Primary alum studied at the all-girl Queenswood School in Hertfordshire, London from the age of 12 to 17.

“Kim is like that one, she’s very real,” hums celeb crimper David Gan, who in recent years has become mother hen to Singapore’s holy trinity of social media It girls Arissa Cheo, Yoyo Cao and Kim. “She is very rich but she doesn’t act that way.”