Hearst daughter lingerie poster girl

THE daughter of a kidnapped newspaper heiress has been unveiled as the face — and body — of lingerie brand Myla.

Lydia Hearst is the daughter of Patty Hearst, who was snatched by US guerilla group the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974.

Myla said Lydia will front the company’s autumn/winter collection.

The model, great-granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, will bring an “intelligent sexuality” to the season’s range, said creative director Franceska Luther.

The 23-year-old model was crowned supermodel of the year at the 2007 Michael awards.

She can be seen posing in a range of 1940s-inspired underwear for Myla’s collection, which is due in the shops on Monday.

Her poses are in stark contrast to her mother who, 34 years earlier, shocked her family by posing with a gun for her captors. Patty Hearst was 19 when she was taken from her home in Berkeley, California, by the group in a bid to exchange her for their imprisoned members.

Two months later she hit the headlines when she said she intended to join her captors.

She even posed with a rifle in an SLA poster, and started calling herself Tania for her role as an urban guerilla. In 1976 she was given a seven-year jail term for her part in a SLA bank robbery, despite claiming she had been brainwashed by the group.

Her sentence was commuted two years later by US president Jimmy Carter and she was given a full pardon by Bill Clinton in 2001.