We all get charmed by beauty. But when this beauty accompanies by a challenging destiny and achieving success, we get simply enchanted and inspired. So, Today we are going to talk about a personality who inspired many.  Irina Shayk, the Russian supermodel, who took over the world by storm.

 

She is one of the beautiful women in the world and gets international fame. This 32-year-old Russian model lives in New York in her residence. But the journey from Russia to New York wasn’t that easy.

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She is at the top of the modeling world and reaching international fame in 2007 when she became the exclusive contracted face. So, let’s know more interesting things about her.

 

  1. Irina Shayk had a rough childhood that she actually thanks for and learned by herself that if you don’t believe in yourself no one else does. That actually makes her strong mentally.

  2. Interestingly, you won’t find the city on the map where Irina born! She was born in Yemanzhelinsk, a tiny mining village of Russia that doesn’t appear on the map.

  3. Her father was a Cole miner and her mother was a kindergarten music teacher. Irina said that there’s nothing else there in her village resides mining! And it has only one street.
  4. She is grateful to all the difficulties she went through and admiringly proud of her origin. In an interview, she said that her force of character and perseverance was something she inherited from her family.
  5. Classmate bullies her for her dark skin. Luckily Irina had always focus on her work and paid no attention to their opinion.
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  1. She’s a college drop-out! Modeling is not her first passion neither the only one. Irina started piano at the age of 6. At age 9 she involved in a music school and study there for 7 years.

  2. Although she invested her 7 years in music, she felt like that music is not her true calling. Then feeling like studying in marketing would be a good career choice. But she got bored here too.

  3. By chance, she went out of a beauty school and that’s where the things changing.

  4. She hates diets! Although she looks stunning in every swimsuit or sports dress, this supermodel confesses that she doesn’t pay any attention to her diet. She said that you should find something that works for your body and diet is not for mine. She simply does more workout to fit her body.