Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk’s unique co-parenting style: the exes continue to holiday together, regularly do the school run in New York, and are teaching daughter Lea that looks aren’t everything

Ever since actor Bradley Cooper and model Irina Shayk broke up in 2019, speculation has been rife about the two getting back together … or not. However, one thing has remained constant throughout their apparent relationship ups and downs, and that’s their love for their daughter, Lea. Cooper, 48, told NPR that having a daughter was something he’d “always dreamt of”, while Shayk, 37, told W magazine that being a mother is “one of the greatest things in the world”. However, the pair are among the most tight-lipped in Hollywood when it comes to discussing their family, with Shayk telling Elle she deliberately doesn’t engage with online speculation: “Honestly, I’m too busy raising a child … The rest is just noise.” In mid December, however, Cooper stepped out with the six-year-old at the premiere of Maestro, in which he plays composer Leonard Bernstein, and his daughter has a small cameo as a young version of Maya Hawke’s character. So what do we know about the little girl the pair are co-parenting, and what have they said publicly about how they’re raising her? Anti nepo babies? How Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are raising their 4 kids Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk’s daughter Lea De Seine has a glamorous name Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper was born on March 21, 2017, in Los Angeles to a then 31-year-old Shayk. These days though, the six-year-old goes to school in New York, and her famous parents have been papped multiple times doing the school run with her. Shayk has described Lea as a “super easy” child who the couple are able to take everywhere with them. Shayk told Elle magazine that even during a full gym workout and Michael Kors fitting, Lea simply amused herself with a drawing book for hours. Opening up about co-parenting Though the former Victoria’s Secret model and Maestro actor aren’t currently together, Shayk has said that the pair “always find a way” to make their schedules work around their daughter, adding that Cooper is “the best father Lea and I could dream of” in the aforementioned Elle interview. Nor do the couple resort to help from a nanny, according to an account Shayk gave to Harper’s Bazaar. It seems that Lea is teaching her parents as much as she is learning from them, with Cooper admitting to NPR that being a father has forced him to become more “present” and Shayk telling People that the little girl has taught her to “love herself even more”. Who is Nicky Hilton’s billionaire heir husband, James Rothschild? What Cooper and Shayk are teaching their daughter The couple have opened up on one or two rare occasions about what how their own upbringing has shaped their outlook for Lea. For Cooper, the most important thing is for his daughter to feel as loved as he did. In his NPR interview, he said that one of the things that connected him and Lady Gaga right away when working on A Star is Born was that they “were very, very loved” as children. “And that’s the thing I want my daughter to have,” he added. Shayk – who was raised in a poor but loving family in Russia – told Elle her daughter is “growing up in a completely different environment” to the one she did, adding in her Harper’s Bazaar interview that TikTok and Instagram made her scared as a parent: “But most important is teaching our daughter bigger values than being pretty on the outside,” she said. Lea De Seine is already a Hollywood jet-setter Lea’s very first holiday was to Tahiti just four months after she was born. She was whisked off to the French Polynesian island with her parents and an adoring cast of other celebs including Girls actress Allison Williams, Anderson Cooper and Diane Von Furstenburg, per Us Weekly. Since then, the tiny blonde has been everywhere from Italy – for the Venice Film Festival – to Paris with her dad (where she seemed to have the time of her life at a funfair), to Disneyland. Was it plastic surgery? Here’s what really happened to Zac Efron’s face Irina Shayk and Bradley Cooper’s relationship status Shayk and Cooper got together in 2015, according to People magazine, and separated in 2019. However, in the past year, several sightings of the pair looking cosy together – not to mention taking what seem to be loved up, bordering on sexy photos of each other for Instagram – has some netizens joking that the pair are enjoying a “co-parenting with benefits” arrangement. It’s true that the pair seem to care a lot for each other, with one source telling US media as recently as September that Shayk is still hoping to marry Cooper one day. Will Lea De Seine have famous step parents too? When Shayk and Cooper were first spotted getting on well together, the model had just broken up with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, while the Wardogs actor had recently stopped dating singer Suki Waterhouse, per Elle. Since their own relationship broke down in 2019, the pair have been linked to several other stars, from Jennifer Garner and Lady Gaga to Kanye West and Vito Schnabel. But in the last few months, two new lovers have come on the scene, with Shayk reportedly dating Gisele Bündchen’s ex Tom Brady, and Cooper seeing model Gigi Hadid.