Heather Stewart-Whyte
Heather Stewart-Whyte is a British model.
Early life and career
Born in East Sussex, England, Heather Stewart-Whyte is the daughter of Doug Stewart-Whyte, a Conservative Party election agent, but was raised, along with her sisters, by her mother. She became a nanny but, at age 17, got her first modelling job by replying to an ad by Elite Model Management. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stewart-Whyte performed runway shows for, among others, Versace, Armani, Saint-Laurent and Lagerfeld, and modeled for Victoria's Secret, Gucci, Christian Dior, and Maybelline. She also appeared on magazine covers such as Vogue Paris in 1991 and 1992, and the British and Italian editions of both Elle and Marie Claire and French Elle.Personal life
Stewart-Whyte married French tennis player Yannick Noah in 1995. They divorced in 1999, with Stewart-Whyte retaining custody of their two daughters. In 2001, Stewart-Whyte married French boxer and businessman Franck Ferrando, aka Dan Koonoo. Their son was born in 2001. In 2004, Ferrando/Koonoo died of a pulmonary edema while boxing at the Marcel-Cerdan gym in Noisy-le-Grand.In 2017, her daughter Jenaye Noah became a model.
In March 2004, it was reported that Stewart-Whyte had been kidnapped, and that her mother and sister had received a ransom demand of several million dollars. After she had been missing for 10 days, French police reported that she had not been kidnapped, that she had been staying with friends and that the ransom demand was a misunderstanding.
In 2010, Stewart-Whyte's younger half-brother, Donald Stewart-Whyte, a Muslim convert who had changed his name to Abdul Waheed, was charged with plotting murder and terrorism but was acquitted.