DAPHNE IKING (pic) looked radiant when met at a perfume launch event in KLCC recently.
But behind that beautiful smile, Daphne is nursing some cuts and bruises a fter falling into a manhole just a few days before.
“I was at Jalan Alor to have a dinner meeting with the Bella (ntv7) team and I was walking up and down the pavement trying to get a glimpse of the crew's car (they were lost).
"Then I spotted them, so I ran to grab their attention that they had found the place — and then I fell unglamorously into a manhole!” said the Sabahan beauty.
She was on her own, while her husband Azmi Abdul Rahman (Joe) waited for their table with her three-year-old daughter Isobel Daniella, unaware she had fallen.
Daphne added that she was very lucky not to have fallen all the way in, thanks to her baby bump.
“I injured both legs with cuts and bruises. Surprisingly, despite the bump holding me from going all the way in, there was no injury or bruise on the tummy and baby is fine.
“Joe was shocked and deeply concerned.”
Needless to say, her husband doesn't allow her to walk alone anymore.
Talking about her baby, we wondered when the baby was due, if she already knew the gender and if the couple had picked a name yet.
“We want to keep all that a surprise!” smiled the 32-year-old.
Daphne was at the Bvlgari cocktail launch of its latest women eau de parfum fragrance, Bvlgari Mon Jasmin Noir, representing ntv7 for Bella, along with her co-hosts, Elaine Daly and Deborah Henry.
The anchors of the daily English language women's talk show were acknowledged by Bvlgari for Bella’s inspiring representation of every empowered Malaysian woman.
