Mila Kunis and her family fled their home of Ukraine in 1991, escaping antisemitism and settling in the U.S. on a religious refugee visa. When war broke out in the country earlier this year, Kunis, a proud Ukrainian American, immediately launched a fundraiser with her husband Ashton Kutcher.
Mila was born in the then-Soviet city Chernivtsi (which is located in present-day Ukraine) and lived there for seven years until her family immigrated to the United States as religious refugees.
Kunis has cited antisemitism in the Soviet Union as one of several reasons for her family's move to the United States. She has stated that her parents "raised [her] Jewish as much as they could", although religion was suppressed in the Soviet Union.
Despite having moved to the west coast US mainland aged 7 (following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991), Kunis' Russian-language skills have remained and has stated repeatedly that they are both an integral part of her indemnity and heritage as well as being the common language spoken amongst her family at home.
Why did Mila Kunis say she was Russian and not Ukrainian?
Kunis said that because she identified so strongly as an American, for a long time, being Ukrainian felt “irrelevant” to her, despite having close friends in the country and visiting it with her husband, the actor Ashton Kutcher.
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Why doesn t Mila Kunis speak Ukrainian?
“I don't speak Ukrainian," Kunis told CNN's Chris Wallace. "When I was raised in Ukraine it was still under the USSR umbrella, so I spoke Russian. It is what we all spoke. So my kids understand Russian.
Kutcher grew up as a Roman Catholic. As an adult, he practices Kabbalah, and has visited Israel and studied the Torah; his wife Mila Kunis stated that he "taught [me] everything I never knew" about her religion, Judaism, though as of 2018, he has not converted.
At age 7, Milena Markovna Kunis and her family moved from Ukraine to Los Angeles. Mila's mother, Elvira, and father, Mark, soon enrolled her in acting classes and allowed Mila to shorten her name when she started booking her first roles on "Days of our Lives," "7th Heaven," and playing a young Angelina Jolie in "Gia."
Kutcher has a net worth of $200 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. The actor was an early investor in successful startups like Uber, Airbnb, and Spotify.
The 31-year-old Kunis gave birth to a baby girl at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Both mom and baby are said to be doing well. Kunis and Kutcher, 36, met when they played a teen couple on the hit sitcom "That '70s Show."
The Kunis family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1991 when Mila was just 7 years old from the Ukraine. They arrived in LA with only $300 to their names and two years after they arrived they moved into the condo where Mila's parents still live today.
In the wake of the backlash to their video, Kutcher resigned as chair of the board of Thorn, an anti-human trafficking organization that targets child sex abuse. Kutcher co-founded Thorn with fellow actor and ex-wife Demi Moore in 2009. Kunis also stepped down from her role as observer on the organization's board.
Actor Ashton Kutcher's rare autoimmune condition, vasculitis, is a disorder characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels that can be life-threatening.
But little do fans of That '70s Show and Dude, Where's My Car know that Kutcher bears no similarities to some of his former on-screen characters. The-now 44-year-old has an estimated IQ of 160, evident in his humanitarian work (he's assisted with the plight of child trafficking) and investment work.
Mini Bio. Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis was born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991.
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher's age gap is five years, but she was 14 when they started working together on That 70s Show. She admitted to lying about her age when she auditioned for the role of Jackie. “There's a rumor going around that I may or may not have lied about my age.
January 2012: Ashton and Mila reunite at an awards show. Meanwhile, Kunis had recently been broken up with someone as well: actor Macaulay Culkin. She and Kutcher bumped into one another at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards. Kunis noticed him first.
Not only are the pair close, but thanks to Masterson — who now faces between 30 years to life in prison — Kutcher has quietly maintained ties to Scientology, Page Six can reveal. And he's not the only “That '70s Show” cast member who got roped into activities at the controversial church.
Although the "That '70s Show" alums, who married in 2015, don't wash their entire bodies on a day-to-day basis, they do wash their faces. Kunis does so twice a day and Kutcher does it after a workout "to get all the salts out."
Kunis, a granddaughter of Holocaust-surviving grandparents, and her family left the Soviet Union after deciding there was no future behind the Iron Curtain. In 1991, when she was seven years old, Kunis immigrated to the U.S. with her parents and older brother and eventually settled in Los Angeles.
Ukraine-born Mila Kunis and husband Ashton Kutcher pledge to match $3 million in aid donations. Ukrainian-born American actress Mila Kunis, along with her celebrity husband Ashton Kutcher, have agreed to match up to $3 million in donations toward refugee and humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
The 44-year-old star waged a year-long battle with the autoimmune disease vasculitis in 2019 which left him unable to see, hear or walk and explained that he just "woke up one day" with an array of problems, reports femalefirst.co.uk. He said: "I woke up one day and was having vision issues, could hardly see.
