From pianist to model: The before and after of Irina Shayk
Irina Valeryevna Shaykhlislamova is a pink model who has done more than stand out in the fashion industry
Model, actress and mom, Irina Shayk is the complete package. From her simple beginnings, hailing from a small town in Russia, Shayk began modeling after being "discovered". Since then, she has stood out in the fashion industry as one of the most popular supermodels of our generation.
She has continued to grow in her career and has also expanded into the acting world. Even with all the fame, she has never forgotten where she came from and continues to give back to her home community. Do you already know the whole story of her? Before fame, she was a little girl with big dreams.
Before and After Irina Shayk Born and raised in a city in the middle of nowhere called Yemanzhelinsk, Shayk's father was a coal miner and her mother was a pianist, who played for children in kindergarten. She lost her father, out of nowhere, to pneumonia when she was 14 years old, and the family learned to survive as 3 women (her sister is 18 months older than her).
"Yemanzhelinsk is a very small coal mining town. There is nothing there, just coal mining. It is not on any map. We didn't even have a cinema. We had a street and a garden that was 30 minutes away on foot. I took care of the potatoes and tomatoes and cucumbers ”, he revealed in an interview.
Before becoming a model, Shayk considered music, and not so much because she liked it, but because she had the talent. "I started playing the piano at 6 years old. I also sang in the choir, so my mother put me in music school. I went to study there for 7 years, but it was not my passion.
I quit because I wanted to study marketing. "However, her modeling career began until she was 20. Her sister worked in a beauty school next to a modeling school. One day, while visiting her sister, an agent got He approached Shayk and invited her to be a model in Paris. After a few months, she said yes thinking that it could be a great opportunity to help her family.
And while she seems like a fairy tale at first, Shayk didn't get off to an easy start. Years later she revealed that the age of 20 was a rather late start in the modeling world. In Paris, she struggled with the language and lived with models who made fun of her. During an interview, Shayk spoke about the struggles of being a model. "It's a tough business, it's very competitive. People who don't know our life think, 'Oh, she's pretty, she's wearing a nice dress and she's smiling and they pay her a lot of money for nothing,' but it's hard work."
At the same time that the scouting agent offered Shayk a modeling opportunity, he also asked her to participate in the Miss Chelyabinsk beauty pageant, which she won in 2004.
Although she has not stopped modeling, she has also taken an interest in acting. In fact, in 2010 she starred in Kanye West's music video "Power" and in 2012 she featured the Russian version of Next Top Model.
However, her first big acting break came in the 2014 movie "Hercules" with Dwyane Johnson.
In an interview, he said about it: "I had a very small role in a great movie (Hercules), but I really enjoyed it! It is very different from modeling, since modeling is an image and everything is about your best angle, while on a movie set it's a completely different environment and you have to play your character. " And well ... he had to kiss the Rock, what a sacrifice!
As for her personal life, she made world headlines for having a relationship with soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, but they broke up in early 2015 after almost 5 years of being together.
She immediately began dating Bradley Cooper, with whom she had her only daughter: Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper in 2017. They never married, but last year they announced their separation after fans demanded that the actor date Lady Gaga. . This never happened, but it may have been a reason behind their breakup.
