The parents of a baby girl who was fighting for her life in Bali before generous Australians shelled out almost $200,000 to fly her to a Gold Coast hospital are actually a fashion influencer and an artist who flip vans for a living.
Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal the true identities of the couple, who call themselves Honey and Pan Ahimsa, as they return with their daughter ‘Baby Lucky’ to Indonesia where they are now renovating a house.
Baby Lucky captured the nation’s hearts in February when her mum launched a desperate bid to charter a medical evacuation flight for her then-seven-week-old baby girl to Australia.
Lucky was suffering sepsis and pneumonia and doctors had reportedly only given her a 50 per cent chance of survival. She was medi-evaced to Australia for life-saving care not available in Indonesia after receiving more than $200,000 in donations.
Honey and Pan are not the names Lucky’s parents were born with. Honey was previously known as Melbourne-born model Rachael Eti, aka Rachael Eti-King.
Meanwhile, husband Pan is Canadian Graham White, who has travelled the world visiting hippie haunts and compared himself to world famous street artist Banksy.
The pair have their own ‘ethical clothing’ label. They also on-sell re-styled vehicles, such as vans favoured by van-lifers – marketing one with a popular Instagram audio track popular with alternative types. One such van was sold for $60,000.
‘Welcome to the new rich,’ the lyrics go. ‘We’re debt free’.
Honey Ahimsa is Rachael Eti-King (above) from Melbourne, a model and influencer. Generous Australians raised almost $200,000 for to medevac her baby daughter to Australia
Ms Eti-King aka Honey Ahimsa (above) and her family were flown to the Gold Coast where her seven-week old daughter was treated at a hospital for sepsis
One of the vans Honey and Pan Ahimsa aka Rachael Eti-King and Graham White have flipped and sold for up to $60,000. The home was marketed with a popular alternative audio track, lyrics of which included: ‘Welcome to the new rich…. We’re debt free’
White, the son of a concrete industry worker who grew up on a farm in Ontario, Canada, previously called himself Pan Trinity Das and was married to Los Angeles actress Kyrie Maezumi, before meeting Rachael Eti in Bali.
In an interview in 2018, he explained that the name ‘Pan is an artist identity I picked up’ as a teenager.
‘I felt like the previous me had too many limitations whereas Pan could do anything,’ he said.
He said in another interview, in 2016 with Ontario’s Northumberland News, that Graham White had morphed into Pan Trinity Das after hitchhiking to Montreal and becoming an artist devoted to ‘spiritual art that raises awareness to global issues’.
It is not clear when he changed his name to Pan Ahimsa, but after meeting Ms Eti-King and having their first child, Hendrix White, in mid-2018, she then became known as Honey Ahimsa.
As Rachael Eti, the now 30-year-old influencer and model prefers to be called Honey Ahimsa in Bali where she lives with her partner Graham White aka Pan Ahimsa
Ms Eti-King (seen last week) posted on her Honey Ahimsa Instagram site about renovating a Balinese home they had bought
Together, as their online personas Pan and Honey – with the surname Ahimsa, which means not causing harm to other living things in the Sanskrit language – the couple re-style buses or vans which they on-sell for up to $60,000.
In a caption for a bus conversion ad on her Honey Ahimsa Instagram page, Ms Eti-King wrote: ‘We converted a bus into our home. Such a dream come true! Follow for more Bus life and tips on how to live like a nomad. We travel the world as a family converting vans and buses.’
The audio accompanying the ad – a popular meme – said: ‘Welcome to the new rich. We don’t care what kind of house you live in or what kind of car you drive.
‘We don’t care about those designer brands. We’re debt free. What we care about the most is time, experience’.
One Mercedes Benz van styled by the couple was advertised on Campervans Australian Marketplace by Rachael Eti-King for sale on the Gold Coast last November for $53,000 last November.
Ms Eti-King promoted it as a ‘Dream Van’ with a registration plate from her home state of Victoria. She said the couple ‘can deliver to NSW, Qld or South Aus for additional cost’.
Rachel Eti-King at one point had an online page called ‘bluntsnbikinis’ when first going to Bali where it is believed she met her future partner Graham White now known as Pan Ahimsa
Baby Lucky with her odler brother Hendrix at hospital after
Pan Ahimsa, formely Graham White, works on one of the vans that he and his Australian partner Rachael Eti-King flip and then sell as glammed-up vehicles
One week before Christmas last year, Ms Eti-King gave birth to baby Lucky via ‘natural home birth on a tropical island in Thailand’, according to her Instagram page.
In early February, Lucky was put on a ventilator at Siloam Hospital in Denpasar, before an online fundraiser was started and reached more than $190,000 in a few days.
Lucky was treated and was able to breathe on her own. Honey and Pan Ahimsa told Channel Seven’s Sunrise ‘She did so well. She’s a strong little girl’.
This week, Ms Eti revealed on her Honey Ahimsa Instagram page that she and her husband were moving back to Bali.
‘We found an old/run down Balinese house and very slowly … we are now back and starting the renovating process again.
‘This is such a triumphant feeling. Our first home.’
She later said the couple had not bought their new home and were instead just renting, adding ‘our weekly rental cost is only $83 a week and renovating a house in Bali also costs very little money’.
Rachael Eti and Graham White have transformed their lives as Honey and Pan Ahimsa running van flipping and ethical garment businesses
Baby Lucky’s medevac from Indonesia to Australia was funded online by donations from Australians and others who gave more than $190,000
Pan Ahimsa used to be plain old Graham White back in Peterborough, Ontario where he grew up on a farm with his family (pictured above with his dad, Paul White)
Ms Eti was underwhelmed about prices back in her home country, posting on Instagram last weekend that ‘after spending months in Australia and quite honestly stressing about how much cost of living is, it’s so refreshing to be back in Bali where cost of living is low and quality of life is high’.
Apart from renovating vans and buses, one of which was advertised for just under $60,000, Ms Eti and Mr White also run a clothing company. It has the motto: ‘Our mission is to save the world with sexy sustainable fashion’.
The pair have both modelled a T-shirt with the slogan ‘Do No Harm’ stencilled on the front.
Daily Mail Australia have reached out to Honey Ahimsa for comment.
