A-lister Mila Kunis, born Milena Markovna Kunis, is now best-known for being a huge Hollywood star but her start in life was worlds away from the glitz and glamour of the movies.
Mila was born in Ukraine in 1983 and then was forced to leave her home country seven years later, as her family fled just before the fall of the Soviet Union in 19991.The actress – who’s starred in films Black Swan and Ted as well as TV’s Family Guy – has previously stated anti-semitism as the reason why she left for America, saying her "whole family was in the Holocaust". "One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade," she explained. "She came home one day crying.
Her mother asked why and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika." Mila – who is now happily married to Ashton Kutcher, who she has two children with – made the comments in the The Telegraph , when asked about going to school in Ukraine. "When I was in school you would still see antisemitic signs," she said. "This is a country that obviously does not want you." In Glamour magazine in 2016, Mila spoke of the battles her parents – mechanical engineer dad Mark and physics teacher mum Elvira - endured when they came to America in a bid to give her and brother Michael, then 13, a better life.
The family arrived with just suitcases and $250. Mila explained: "My dad worked—f**k if I know—seven jobs? He painted a house.
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