Irina Shayk

 Shayk was born in Yemanzhelinsk (Chelyabinsk Oblast region), Soviet Union, to the Volga Tatar father, Valery Shaykhlislamov, coal miner, as well as an the ethnic Russian mother, Olga, a kindergarten music teacher. She said that her father was the one who gave her her appearance and that people think she is South American. Olga, an elementary music teacher claimed that her father was Tatar. I get my light eyes from my mother. "[7] She has a sibling, a sister named Tatiana Petenkova. Tatiana is the mother of three children, Tatiana is Tatiana's aunt. Tatiana also has a niece named "Irina". Tatiana started piano playing when she was six. At age nine, she enrolled in an institution for music and continued to study there for seven years playing the piano and singing in the choir, because her mom wanted to take her studies in music. Her father passed away of complications of pneumonia at the age of 14 which left her family with very little money and forcing her mother to work two jobs to provide for the family.After high school, Shayk studied marketing[9] but decided to enter a beauty school along with her sister. Her name was selected by a rep from an agency for local models, who was impressed with her beauty. She was encouraged to take part in the "Miss Chelyabinsk 2004" beauty contest that she won. she described this contest as far less than the standards of beauty contests that one would expect to see in large metropolitan European cities or in the United States.