Irina Shayk likes Kanye West 'as a friend' only.
The 35-year-old model has recently been romantically linked with the Stronger rapper after they were seen together in France last month, but insiders insisted she isn't looking for a relationship and turned down his request to accompany him to Paris for a fashion show as she didn't want to add fuel to the speculation.
'She likes him as a friend, but doesn't want a relationship with him,' a source told the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column.
She put him in the friend zone! Irina Shayk likes Kanye West 'as a friend' only. The 35-year-old model has recently been romantically linked with the Stronger rapper after they were seen together in France last month, but insiders insisted she isn't looking for a relationship and turned down his request to accompany him to Paris for a fashion show
'She doesn't want the association that they are dating, which is what would have run in the press if she showed up [in Paris with him],' the source added.
'It would have been another month of news saying that they are dating.'
And although Irina - who has four-year-old daughter Lea with former partner Bradley Cooper - was with Kanye for his 44th birthday celebrations in Provence, France, the source insisted it wasn't a romantic occasion.
They said: 'She went to his birthday party as a friend. There were 50 other people there.'
The Russian beauty isn't looking for love with anyone right now.
Don't you want me baby? 'She likes him as a friend, but doesn't want a relationship with him,' a source told the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column
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The insider said: 'She doesn't want to be linked with anyone right now. She is happy being single.'
Irina and Kanye - who has four children, North, eight, Saint, five, Chicago, three, and Psalm, two, with estranged wife Kim Kardashian West - have been friends for several years and she previously
