Who is Tatiana Shaykhlislamova, Irina Shayk’s sister?

Tatiana Shaykhlislamova is the sister of Irina Shayk. Tatiana Shaykhlislamova’s sister is a Russian model and television personality. She gained massive international recognition after she became the first Russian model to appear on the cover of the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Models.com ranks her as one of the New Supers.

Tatiana Shaykhlislamova: Bio Summary

Who is Irina Shayk’s sister Tatiana?

Tatiana Shaykhlislamova was born on November 10, 1984, in Yemanzhelinsk (Chelyabinsk Oblast region), Soviet Union. She is the daughter of Valery Shaykhlislamov and Olga Shaykhlislamova. Shaykhlislamova is 39 years old as of 2023. She is the elder sister of Irina Shayk model and actress. Tatiana gained most of her popularity from being the sister of the supermodel.

Their father Valery belongs to the Volga Tatar Ethnicity, a Turkic ethnic group native to the Volga-Ural region of Russia while their mother Olga was ethnic Russian. Her father was a coal miner and her mother was a kindergarten music teacher. Before she developed a love for modeling, Tatiana’s sister was into music.

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The supermodel started playing piano at the very young age of six. By the time she was at the age of nine, she enrolled in a music school and studied there for seven years. She played the piano and also sang in the choir since her mother wanted her to study music.

Talking about her parents, Irina revealed that she inherited her looks from her father and that people often mistake her for being South American, saying, “My father was dark skinned, because he was Tatar, sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian. I get my light eyes from my mother.”

Tatiana Shaykhlislamova’s father died when she was a teenager

The siblings experience the pain of a loss at a very young age. Tatiana and Irina’s father’s father Valery passed away when they were teenagers. Their 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.

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Despite the ups and downs, the siblings were able to sail through. After high school, Shayk chose to study marketing while Tatiana also chose to go to beauty school. Later the model chose to enter a beauty school with her older sister Tatiana. This was the decision that changed Irina’s life.

Tatiana Shaykhlislamova’s supermodel sister was noticed by a person from a local modeling agency who was struck by her beauty. Irina was urged to participate in the “Miss Chelyabinsk 2004” beauty contest, which she won; she described this contest as far below the standard of beauty contests one would expect in metropolitan European cities or in the United States.

Tatiana and her sister are very close. The supermodel sister never misses an opportunity to show love to her elder sister. On Tatiana’s birthday, the model shared a throwback photo of themselves with the caption-‘happy bday to my sis’ accompanied by a string of heart emojis. She shared this with her over 5 million followers. Tatiana is a mother of three children. She named her daughter Irina after her younger supermodel sister.

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Irina Shayk and her sister Tatiana built a hospital

The Shaykhlislamova sisters are helping a maternity hospital in their hometown, Yemanzhelinsk. Tatiana Shaykhlislamova and her sister helped rebuild the children’s ward of the local hospital. Now the supermodel raises money on behalf of a Russian charity, Pomogi – “Help” (Russian: Помоги), which provides care to sick children.

According to reports, the Russian model is against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has stated an intention of donating to UNICEF and Red Cross to support their humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.