
Shayk was born in Yemanzhelinsk, Soviet Union,
to a Volga Tatar father, Valery Shaykhlislamov, a coal miner, and a Russian mother, Olga, a kindergarten music teacher.
Her surname literally means "Islamic scholar" (Shaykh al-Islam). She has stated that she inherited her looks from her father and that people often mistake her for being South American: "My father was dark skinned, because he was Tatar, sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian…I get my light eyes from my mother."
She has one sibling, a sister named Tatiana.
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