Irina Shayk, 35 years of (not only) beauty

Password, resilience. Which in such a complicated 2020, it has become a kind of necessity: absorb the impact without breaking, that is, face a traumatic event and overcome it. Not a novelty for Irina Shayk, 35 years old, many of them characterized by sacrifices and difficulties: “When I was little, my sister and I used to help our mom in the vegetable gardenHe said in the past. “My family was poor, I felt my fate was in another city».

And indeed she was not wrong: born in the Russian village of Yemanzhelinsk by a miner and a music teacher, starts playing piano very soon but he realizes his future is somewhere else. At the age of 14 he faces his first major trauma, that is the death of the father caused by a pneumonia, but it does not break down and moves to Chelyabinsk, where he first attends a marketing institute and then a school for beauticians, together with his sister.

As in a script by Hollywood, Irina’s life changes when – walking in the street – she is noticed by the scouts di a local modeling agency. “I actually dreamed of doing the Journalist, I had no idea what that meant unthread. I did not even speak theEnglish“. Fly anyway to Paris, then Milano e London, even if the beginnings are not simple: «Hard times, but happy. I was living with 40 euros per week, I sent the other money home ».

“Have casting I was often discarded“, remember. “My fault olive skin and mine abundant breasts. I didn’t get into clothes extra-small, the other girls were very thin“. Even if the real episode of discrimination is experienced when they deny it entry into the United States because his dad was of ethnicity Tatar, from muslim. But not even this obstacle succeeds knock out Irina, who in a few years reaches he top in his work.

Today it is one of most requested models, ambassador of very important brands, with 14 million of followers on Instagram. Its beauty is magnetic, his ice eyes they bewitched the footballer first Cristiano Ronaldo, to which she was linked from 2010 to 2015, then the actor Bradley Cooper, her partner from 2015 to 2019 and father of her daughter. From March – murmurs the gossip – seems to be paired with the art dealer Vito Schnabel.

And it’s felice. “When I go back to work in some big cities, I have the driver who comes to pick me up and lodging in beautiful hotelsHe recalled. “Bad initial difficulties they helped me understand that there is none in life nothing easy, nor taken for granted ». A teaching that he wants to pass on to little Lea, today at his side as he goes out 35 candles.

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