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Irina Shayk Profile |
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Birth Date: January 6, 1986
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Birth Place: Yemanzhelinsk, Russia
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Birth Name: Irina Shaykhlislamova
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Irina Shayk is a Russian model known for her 2007 through
2011 appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
She is the cover model for the 2011 issue.
Her late father Valeri was of Tatar origin and her mother is
Russian. She says that she got her unusual looks from her
father, and she has said that people often think she is
South American. “My father was dark skinned, because he was
Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian,” she says. “I
get my light eyes from my mother.” Shayk’s mother was a
pianist who was the music teacher in a kindergarten, and her
father was a coal miner. She has one sibling, an older
sister named Tatiana. Shayk started playing piano at age
six. At age nine she enrolled in a music school and studied
there for seven years, both playing the piano and singing in
the choir, as her mother wanted her to study music. Her
father died of complications of pneumonia when she was 14,
leaving her family with little money and forcing her mother
to work two jobs to provide for the family. |
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since February 6, 2008