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Irina Valeryevna Shaykhlislamova, known
popularly as Irina Shayk and sometimes
credited as Irina Sheik, is a Russian
model. Shayk received international
recognition in 2007 when she became
the exclusive contracted face of Intimis-
LETTER from simi lingerie. She appeared in the Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and was also
the first Russian model to grace its cover
in 2011. Models.com ranks her at No. 8 in
THE EDITOR the world for her social media following.

Shayk was born in Yemanzhelinsk, USSR,
Scrumptious Irina Shayk is back on the beach to Volga Tatar Valery Shaykhlislamov, a
coal miner, and his Russian wife Olga, a
kindergarten music teacher. She has said
Beach Bunny extraordinaire and mother of all that is the that she inherited her looks from her
sexy, drop dead gorgeous Russian sensation Irina Shayk is father and that people often think she is
back. Happy day! She’s posing around in the sand in some South American: “My father was dark
skin revealing and hot swimwear outfits. The hottest WAG skinned, because he was Tatar, sometimes
out there is looking like her usual ridiculously sexy self Tatars can look Brazilian… I get my light
once again. Aren’t we glad she’s back? eyes from my mother.” She has one sib-
ling, a sister named Tatiana.
Aren’t bunnies cute? She’s the best at posing in some sexy
swimwear outfits and thank god Beach Bunny wanted her Shayk started playing piano at age six. At
to show off their new bikini collection! The drop dead age nine she enrolled in a music school
gorgeous Russian sensation comes back, again and again, and studied there for seven years, both
looking ridiculously sexy every single time we have the playing the piano and singing in the choir,
occasion to gawk at her. Isn’t Irina Shayk scrumptious? since her mother wanted her to study
Enjoy! 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.
Maurice Chevalier After high school, Shayk studied mar-
Editor in Chief keting but failed it and entered a beauty
school with her older sister. While there,
she was noticed by a person from a local
modeling agency who was struck by her
beauty. She was urged to participate in the
“Miss Chelyabinsk 2004” beauty contest
and she won.
ON THE COVER: IRINA SHAYK