Heather Stewart-Whyte | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 September 1968 [1] East Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Model |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
| Modelling information | |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
| Hair colour | Brown [1] |
| Eye colour | Green [1] |
| Agency | Models 1 [1] |
Heather Stewart-Whyte (born 25 September 1968) is a British model.
Born in East Sussex, England, [2] 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. [1] 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. [1]
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. [2] [3] [4] 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. [5] [3]
In 2001, Noah gained custody of their two daughters [2] [6] In 2003, Stewart-Whyte complained in the press that Noah had not respected her court-ordered visitation rights with their daughters and that Noah was using them to promote his album. [6] Noah publicly remarked that they had not heard from her in two years. In 2017, her daughter Jenaye Noah became a model. [7]
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. [8] 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. [9] [10]
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. [11] [12]
