Irina Shayk, aka Irina Valeryevna Shaykhlislamova, is an Actress and Model from Russia. Following Cristiano Ronaldo’s devastating announcement that his newborn baby had died, people have speculated whether he already had children with ex-partner Irina Shayk.
Cristiano Ronaldo, a Manchester United great, announced last week that his newborn baby had died. The Portuguese player and his five-year girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, revealed on Instagram in December 2021 that they were expecting twins, a son, and a daughter. Their daughter was born alive. Ronaldo’s engagement with Georgina is his second high-profile affair after a five-year relationship with model Irina Shayk.
Who is Irina Shayk?
Shayk was born in Yemanzhelinsk (Chelyabinsk Oblast region) in the Soviet Union to a Volga Tatar Muslim father, Valery Shaykhlislamov, a coal miner, and a Russian Orthodox Christian mother, Olga, a kindergarten music teacher. Tatiana Petenkova, her only sibling, is her only sibling. Tatiana’s three daughters, including a niece called “Irina” after her, are her nieces. Her father died of pneumonia-related complications when she was 14, leaving her family in financial straits and forcing her mother to work two jobs to make ends meet.
At the age of six, Shayk started playing the piano. Her mother pushed her to learn music, so she enrolled in a music school when she was nine years old and studied piano and choir for seven years.
Shayk studied business after high school but then decided to enroll in a beauty school alongside her elder sister. While she was there, a representative from a local modeling agency was charmed by her attractiveness and approached her.
In 2007, Shayk succeeded Ana Beatriz Barros as the face of Intimissimi, and she made her debut in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue the same year. After three years as the brand’s face, Shayk became the official ambassador for Intimissimi in 2010. She also posed for Beach Bunny Swimwear and Guess for the spring/summer 2009 season.
Shayk was the face of Armani Exchange’s advertising campaign for the spring/summer 2010 season. She also starred in Marco Brambilla’s film “Power,” directed by Kanye West. Shayk was unveiled as the cover model for the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in an episode of the Late Show with David Letterman on Valentine’s Day.
Complex magazine placed her #1 on their list of the “50 Hottest Russian Women.” She featured on 14 Cosmopolitan spring covers globally in 2012, including Esquire UK, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia and Ukraine, Marie Claire Ukraine, Spain and Russia, GQ Germany, and Glamour Russia. In 2020, she even walked in the last Jean Paul Gaultier fashion presentation. She walked in the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at six months pregnant with her daughter Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper.
In the 2014 picture Hercules, Shayk made her acting debut as Megara alongside Dwayne Johnson. She opposes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, has expressed her plan to donate to Unicef and the Red Cross to help their humanitarian operations in Ukraine and has encouraged her fans to do the same.
How old is Irina Shayk?
Irina Shayk was born on January 6, 1986, in Yemanzhelinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She is 36 years old.
Who is Irina Shayk Boyfriend?
After meeting on the set of an Armani Exchange commercial in 2010, Ronaldo and Shayk began dating 2010. The player said they had split in January 2015, following five years of dating, as reported by the BBC.
They didn’t have any children when they were married. Irina and Cristiano have been seen on the red carpet with a kid on occasion, but that is Cristiano Jr, the athlete’s first son, who was born on June 17, 2010. The mother’s name has been kept hidden owing to her “want to stay unidentified.”
Cristiano became the father of twins Eva and Mateo through surrogacy in June 2017, when he was eight months into his relationship with Georgina, who was three months pregnant with their daughter, Alana Martina.
Irina has one kid, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, whom she shares with Bradley Cooper of the United States. Harpers Bazaar states that their daughter was born in March 2017, two years after they started dating. In June of this year, Irina and Bradley called it quits.
How Rich is Irina Shayk?
The estimated Net Worth of Irina Shayk is between $4 Million to $8 Million USD.
(Image Source: Irina Shayk Instagram)