Kanye West Hid Irina Shayk Romance For Months, Secretly Hung Out With Model Before DMX's Memorial
June 10 2021, Published 2:46 p.m. ET
Kanye West and Irina Shayk's romance may be news to the masses, but it is not new.
The two have reportedly been seeing each other since March, with one of their hangout sessions taking place the following month in New York, when he was in town for DMX's celebration of life.
Around that same time, Shayk was spotted wearing a custom DMX memorial shirt – designed by Balenciaga and commissioned by the Yeezy brand – before the merch was even available to the public.
The timeline of this unexpected situationship is curious, to say the least, considering Kim Kardashian only filed for divorce from the father of her four children in February.
But West and Shayk – who has one child by Cooper – actually go back much farther than that.
In 2010, Irina was featured as an angel in Kanye's Power music video, and in 2012, the model strutted her stuff on the catwalk of the Yeezy designer's fall/winter collection during Paris Fashion Week. Kim famously sat front row during that show.
Fast-forward to June 8, 2021 – the day Ye turned 44.
While Kim and her sister, Khloe Kardashian, were celebrating the rapper-turned-designer on Instagram, Kanye was busy making his public debut as a couple with Irina in the romantic region of Provence in southeastern France.
