Steve grew up on family farms in Altoona, Iowa & Mercer, Missouri. The eldest of three boys from Ed & Shirley Hinrichs. Steve attended Canary Lake Elementary for one year (Kindergarten), then transferred to Delaware Elementary and finally South East Polk Jr. Sr. High School in Runnels, Iowa. He graduated 77th in his class. Steve spent a lot of his school years in the Music & Drama Departments as well as the Art Department where he developed a keen sense of drawing and painting under the tutelage of Mr. Karl Reynolds & Mr. Nicholet. Steve won several awards for his artwork and was given several scholarships to College. Steve also played Saxophone in the Marching Band and Orchestra - as well as sang in the Choir and Swing choir groups.It was his singing that gave him his first break into show business as a comedian. At the age of 8, Steve was singing a small solo in a Christmas Concert at his elementary school. He was so nervous he would blow this solo, he opened his mouth to sing the solo and his voice cracked! The audience immediately began to laugh, and he has been cracking up audiences ever since. Steve appeared in several plays in high school including The Sound of Music [Kurt], Our Town [George], The Curious Savage [Samuel] and The Music Man [Oliver Hix] Steve also trained farm animals and his many different pets. By the time he attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, he had a collection of 44 domestic and exotic pets. From fish & birds, to a skunk, a badger, a squirrel monkey and a kinkajou. He later acquired two baby cougars and trained them for Lincoln Mercury Car Dealerships, keeping them in his apartment that had a strict no pets policy. Steve became half owner of a pet shop that specialized in breeding Angel Fish. He also spent summers as the head resident Artist-in-the-Park for Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa, where he drew caricatures in lighting fast speeds.Steve left Iowa to work in San Francisco at the San Francisco zoo as an animal handler in the Old McDonalds Petting Zoo - only to get there and discover the lady who hired him over the phone 4 weeks earlier, had been let go - and so went his job with her. Steve became a street performer for 18 months, working Garridelli Square, the Cannery, and Pier 39 as well as many street sidewalks around Fisherman's Wharf. He performed Magic, puppetry, mime work, caricatures, and balloon twisting for tips.Steve was offered a job with a production company to train a mule and be a character actor for an amusement park in Henderson, Nevada called Old Vegas - he trained a mule to play dead once an imaginary bullet from his gun that accidentally went off, hit the mule. (He played the part of a comically clumsy deputy to the sheriff)This led him to Phoenix, Arizona where he began working for a theme park production company producing theme park shows around the United States as well as training their collection of 65 Macaws and Cockatoos for park shows. He was discovered by Universal Studios executives and offered a job as a dolphin and sea lion trainer - working on the film The Golden Seal [uncredited], as well as Marriotts Theme Parks and Six Flags Theme Parks in the aquatic theaters. Two years later, Sid & Marty Krofft of Puffinstuff & Lidsville fame discovered Steve's talents as a puppeteer while taping the Barbara Mandrell Show for NBC in 1982, and hired him to help design and create a spectacular marionette and puppet show that would debut during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.After several years, Steve redeveloped his comedy club stand-up comedian act into a comedy magic & puppet female impersonation act that led him to 18 international tours across Canada, Mexico and the United States as Bonnie Bitch. He was discovered by Las Vegas legend Kenny Kerr and taken to Hawaii for a year's run in a show called Kenn Kerr's Boylesque Hawaii as co-MC of the show. It was there that famed singer Don Ho found Steve's facial expression hilarious, and hired Steve with a walk-on part in his show, performing the hula in drag. Don Ho renamed Steve's Bonnie Bitch character Tiny Bubbles, which Steve still goes by as he appears nightly in showroom productions in Las Vegas.2004, Criss Angel came to see the Las Vegas Hit show, Showgirls of Magic of which Steve was the comedy MC as Tiny Bubbles. It was there that Criss Angel discovered Steve's uncanny ability to transform himself into a large woman on stage. Since Steve is an accomplished magician in his own right, Criss immediately offered Steve a role on his upcoming new Television Magic Show. 2005 thru 2007 [three seasons], Steve appeared on Criss Angel's Mind Freak A&E Television Networks show as reoccurring character Ginger - The Mother of Magic. Steve was also a magic consultant on the show [uncredited]2007 Steve won an audition over 800 people for a documentary about his life's story and how his obesity had either helped or hurt his career. This was filmed in Las Vegas, his hometown of Altoona, Iowa and all over England for Channel Four. Fat Man's Warning has aired repeatedly on English Television many times since.Steve has preformed private & public appearances for celebrities such as Jerry Lewis, Paula Abdul, Britney Spears, Nicholas Cage, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Rip Taylor, Kevin Bacon, Neal Sedaka, Sugar Ray Leonord, Paul Williams, Norman Reedus, The Righteous Brothers and many others.2009, Steve became America's first & only comedy Female Impersonator Hypnotist. Steve appears regularly at comedy clubs and night clubs with his comedy hypnosis shows. Steve has duel residences in Altoona, Iowa and Las Vegas, Nevada. He is appearing at Planet Hollywood at the V Theaters in Zombie Burlesque as Tiny Bubbles. This is Steve's twenty-fifth year appearing on the Las Vegas Strip. Show less «