Ashton Kutcher Supports Wife Mila Kunis’ Native Country Amid Russian Invasion: ‘I Stand With Ukraine’
usmagazine.comAshton Kutcher — whose wife, Mila Kunis, grew up in Ukraine — has issued a statement amid the recent unrest.“I stand with Ukraine,” the Iowa native, 44, tweeted on Thursday, February 24.The Valentine’s Day actor’s 38-year-old wife, whom he wed in July 2015, was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
At the time, Ukraine was a member of the Soviet Union, which later became Russia. Kunis and her family immigrated to the United States when she was 7 years old.“My parents both had amazing jobs, and I was very lucky.
We were not poor when we lived in Russia, whereas most people were very unfortunate,” the Spy Who Dumped Me actress recalled to the Daily Telegraph in September 2011. “My parents had given up good jobs and degrees, which were not transferable.
We arrived in New York on a Wednesday and by Friday morning my brother [Michael Kunis] and I were at school in LA.”After the Black Swan star’s parents — Mark and Elvira Kunis — sought to make a new life for their children, the Family Guy alum initially struggled to adapt.“Ultimately, I adjusted fairly quickly and fairly well, but it must have been hard because I blocked out second grade completely,” she told the Los Angeles Times in October 2008. “I have no recollection of it.
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