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Posted: 2016-07-24 07:23:00

Model Shanina Shaik is ready to move on from her ex. Picture: Christian Gilles

LIVING Sometimes, it seems Shanina Shaik’s life is straight out of “Zoolander.”

Take the over-the-top scene two months ago when male model Tyson Beckford hopped on his Ducati and chased celebrity spinner DJ Ruckus from the Meatpacking District nightclub Up&Down, starting a heated on-the-street confrontation — all over Shaik.

The Victoria’s Secret model, 25, had dated Beckford on and off from 2008 until last year, but perhaps he wasn’t quite ready to admit defeat to Ruckus, who proposed to Shaik in December. The New York Post reports the stunner says she was blissfully unaware of the hostility until it was about to make its way into Page Six, as she was working in London at the time.

“I didn’t know anything was going on. Then I got a call from my fiance ... it happened a few days prior to him notifying me,” Shaik tells The Post.

“He didn’t want to get me off-track [from work]. Yeah, it was a very weird situation.”

Model Shanina Shaik has moved on with her fiance DJ Ruckus aka Gregory Andrews. Picture: Instagram

Model Shanina Shaik has moved on with her fiance DJ Ruckus aka Gregory Andrews. Picture: InstagramSource:Instagram

So who is this feud-fuelling beauty?

A self-proclaimed “shy” girl, Shaik was born in Melbourne and got her big break at the age of 17, when she was a runner-up on the 2005 Aussie reality show “Make Me a Supermodel.”

A year later, she was strutting runways in New York. Looking at the exotic model, whose father is of Pakistani and Saudi Arabian descent, you’d never guess that her mother is a prison guard.

“It’s pretty much ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ I’m obsessed with the show. My mum watched some and said, ‘I don’t want to watch it any more. It reminds me of work,’ ” she says with a laugh.

It also reminds Shaik of work, but in a good way. Next year, she’ll make her big-screen debut in “The Mummy” with Tom Cruise.

“I didn’t think I had the confidence for acting,” says Shaik, who previously turned down auditions and offers “for ‘Superman 2’ and a movie starring Bradley Cooper.”

But, she says, “Seeing other models try an acting role made me think, ‘Well maybe I could do it.’”

Speaking of Cooper — no, she is not related to the actor’s hot model girlfriend, Irina Shayk.

“People always think we’re sisters. We have a similar complexion and have so much in common it’s weird,” Shaik says.

“I take it as a compliment.”

Victoria's Secret model Shanina Shaik and Tyson Beckford at the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show After Party. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Victoria's Secret model Shanina Shaik and Tyson Beckford at the 2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show After Party. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesSource:Supplied

Her own high-profile romance with Ruckus — born Gregory Andrews — started at the Coachella music festival, where they met in April of last year.

The pair have a long-distance relationship: He lives in Los Angeles and she lives in Midtown West in New York with her french bulldog, Choppa.

And even though she’s dating a DJ known for celeb-studded gigs at Marquee and Hakkasan in Las Vegas, Shaik is no social butterfly.

“I’m a little bit shy, so people might judge me, saying I’m snobby,” she says.

“Some of my girlfriends are very out there [and friendly]. I wish I could be that way, and socialise a bit more.”

Shanina Shaik is an international model from Melbourne. Picture: Supplied

Shanina Shaik is an international model from Melbourne. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

In between launching her acting career and globetrotting for modelling gigs and romance, Shaik is busy planning the couple’s beach wedding.

“It was love at first sight. Eight months later, he proposed to me in the Bahamas,” Shaik says.

Ruckus proposed to her on a private beach owned by his cousin, singer Lenny Kravitz.

The DJ’s family friend Denzel Washington brought the rings from LA to ensure they arrived on time, because FedEx doesn’t deliver on Christmas.

“When he proposed, there were two rings for me to choose from. It was really beautiful,” says Shaik, batting her insanely long eyelashes.

In June, a month after the original fight, Ruckus challenged Shaik’s former beau Beckford to a rematch — “in a controlled environment, away from police [and] cameras.”

But Shaik is ready to move on.

“At the end of the day, I always wish my ex the very best,” she says.

“And I hope he does find happiness the same way my fiance and I did.”

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and was republished with permission.

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