“The stunning 25-year-old brunette Irina Shayk, a girlfriend of football star Cristiano Ronaldo covered the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue 2011 in a tiny pink-and-yellow halter bikini,” msnbc website reports.

“There were 10 models there to do the Top 10 List, and nobody knows until the last minute who the cover will be. And then I saw it, and I couldn’t believe,” the source quotes the Russian-born model.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is published annually by Sports Illustrated. It features fashion models wearing swimwear in exotic places.