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==