Mother (& Father) Russia

BRADLEY Cooper’s putting the “da” in “dada.”

We’re told the “Star Is Born” actor and director and ex Irina Shayk have such a cozy custody arrangement that they both take their 3-year-old daughter, Lea de Seine , to a specialty school in the Financial District every Thursday where the tot takes classes in Shayk’s native Russian.

The school promises “complete immersion into the Russian language and culture from an early age by creating fun learning experiences” to “anyone who is interested in preserving their heritage [or] adding a new cultural experience.”

Shayk was born in Yemanzhelinsk, in western Russia but what was then still called the USSR. She moved to the United States around 2007, after she appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and her modeling career started taking off. In 2011, she became the first Russian to appear on the mag’s cover.

Cooper and Shayk got together in 2015, had Lea in 2017 and split in 2019.

According to TMZ, they reached a custody agreement this January that called for both of them to live in New York City in order to coparent together, even though Cooper had previously spent much of his time living in Los Angeles.

The site said that they will split legal and physical custody equally, “although with work schedules it varies from month to month.” But TMZ also said they don’t have a formal, written custody agreement. “They’re so in sync with co-parenting, they don’t feel the need to memorialize it,” the outlet reported.

The model recently told Elle magazine that Cooper is “the most amazing dad” and insisted that — despite the split — they continue to be “parents” to Lea, rather than “co-parents.”

“I never understood the term co-parenting,” Shayk said. “When I’m with my daughter, I’m 100 percent a mother, and when she’s with her dad, he’s 100 percent her dad. Co-parenting is parenting.”

A rep for Cooper didn’t get back to us, and a rep for Shayk couldn’t be reached.