Shanina Shaik (born 11 February 1991) is a model from Melbourne, Australia.
[h=2][edit]Early life[/h]Shanina's mother is of Lithuanian heritage, while her father has Pakistani andSaudi Arabian roots. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia she started modeling when she was 8 years old doing small catalogue gigs for Target and K-Mart, but stopped when she started high school and got accepted into an accelerated program, graduating a year before her classmates. At the age of fifteen, encouraged by others, she entered the Girlfriend Model Competition, the same contest that Abbey Lee Kershaw won years ago, but Shaik did not get very far. While agents were interested in her, she was too young to move to Sydney, so she went on to participate on the Australian reality show Make Me A Supermodel, ending runner-up to Rhys Uhlich.
[h=2][edit]Early life[/h]Shanina's mother is of Lithuanian heritage, while her father has Pakistani andSaudi Arabian roots. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia she started modeling when she was 8 years old doing small catalogue gigs for Target and K-Mart, but stopped when she started high school and got accepted into an accelerated program, graduating a year before her classmates. At the age of fifteen, encouraged by others, she entered the Girlfriend Model Competition, the same contest that Abbey Lee Kershaw won years ago, but Shaik did not get very far. While agents were interested in her, she was too young to move to Sydney, so she went on to participate on the Australian reality show Make Me A Supermodel, ending runner-up to Rhys Uhlich.