Height 173 cm (68 in) Dress size 2/4 (US),32/34 (EU) Weight 49 kg (108 lb) Manager Velocity Angels | Hair colour Black Name Felixia Yeap Eye colour Dark brown Role Model | |
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Born 3 July 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-07-03 ) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | ||
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Felixia Yeap Chin Yee (simplified Chinese: 叶静仪; traditional Chinese: 枼靜儀; pinyin: Yè Jìngyí; born 3 July 1986) is a Malaysian model. She was Malaysia's first and only Playboy Bunny. Since December 2013, she has sported a hijab, sparking controversy among the country's Muslim and non-Muslim communities. On 3 July 2014, she said she had converted to Islam.
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- Malaysian Playboy Model Felixia Yeap Muslim Convert Story
- Biography
- Convert to Islam
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Malaysian Playboy Model Felixia Yeap - Muslim Convert Story
Biography
Felixia was born in Kuala Lumpur and raised in Ipoh, Perak, West Malaysia. Prior to her modelling career, she worked as a kindergarten teacher. Yeap started her modelling career in 2005 after becoming one of the finalists of the Dewi Remaja contest.
She appeared on the third season of I Wanna Be a Model as a finalist and listed in the Hall of Fame for Miss Malaysia Tourism 2007 at the age of 19. She was also the 1st runner-up for Miss Chinese World Malaysia 2006 and a finalist for Dewi Remaja Malaysia.
In 2008, Yeap was chosen to represent Malaysia in the 2008 Beijing Olympic - Olympics Beauty and followed up as the finalist for FHM Girl Next Door 2009 and was crowned Velocity Angels-Model of The Year 2009 before being a finalist for Miss Universe Malaysia 2010. Yeap had quit from the Miss Malaysia World 2009 beauty pageant earlier as she disagreed with the terms and conditions of the competition. She was seen hosting the AQUARIUS Fashion Show in conjunction with WWF Malaysia along with Sam Insanity and is rumoured to be going out with him.
Yeap was chosen to be among Playboy Macau's first batch of Bunnies. She posed in a non-nude pictorial in the July–August 2013 issue of Playboy Philippines. Yeap's career at the Playboy Macau club lasted only a month.
Convert to Islam
In December 2013, Yeap started donning a hijab. She explained in her blog: "I believe I am worth more than just showing off my body. I am more than this. And I don't feel proud if attention- or fame-seeking model wannabes out there look at me as their idol or role model." Her new fashion sparked outrage among non-Muslim communities, Chinese especially, calling it disrespectful towards Islam. Yeap officially converted to Islam on 3 July 2014.