Mila Kunis Says She 'Fell In Love' With Being Jewish After Meeting Ashton Kutcher
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The "Black Swan" actor credited Kutcher, a longtime Kabbalah devotee who was raised Catholic, with encouraging her to take pride in her faith.
Mila Kunis is celebrating Hanukkah with a frank discussion of her Jewish heritage.
In a video interview with actor and activist Noa Tishby this week, Kunis recalled being told to keep quiet about her background during her early childhood in Ukraine. As an adult, however, she’s been able to experience new aspects of Judaism through her daughter Wyatt, 10, and son Dimitri, 8.
“I never lit Hanukkah candles until I had kids,” the “Black Swan” actor, who immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was 8, explained. “I grew up doing nothing. I always knew I was Jewish, but I was told to never talk about it. I think because I was in a country that didn’t allow for religion.”
Watch Mila Kunis’ chat with Noa Tishby below.
Elsewhere in the chat, Kunis credited her husband of nine years, actor Ashton Kutcher, with encouraging her to take pride in her faith.