Mila Kunis is opening up about the emotional toll recent events in Ukraine have taken on her.
In a candid interview with Maria Shriver, the actress and activist spoke at length about the newfound pride she\u2019s gained as a Ukrainian immigrant herself, why she\u2019s making it a point to tell her kids they\u2019re \u201chalf Ukrainian and half American\u201d and why it\u2019s important for Americans to separate the Russian people from those in power.
\u201cI was born in Ukraine. I came to the States in 1991 and we were the last of my family to migrate,\u201d Kunis explains, adding that she was about 8 years old at the time.
\u201cI very much have always felt like an American,\u201d she continued, saying that growing up, \u201cPeople were like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re so Eastern European.\u2019 I was like, \u2018I\u2019m so LA!\u2019 What do you mean? Like, my whole life I was like \u2018I am LA through and through.\u2019\u201d
That all changed when Russia invaded Ukraine last month \u2014 an event Kunis says has changed how she embraces her Ukrainian identity.
\u201c[Russia\u2019s invasion] happens and I can\u2019t express or explain what came over me, but all of a sudden I was like, \u2018Oh my God, I feel like a part of my heart just got ripped out,\u2019\u201d she explained. \u201cIt was the weirdest feeling.\u201d
That mindset extended to how she\u2019s explaining the situation with her children, daughter Wyatt, 7, and son Dimitri, 5, both of whom she shares with Ashton Kutcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mila Kunis is opening up about the emotional toll recent events in Ukraine have taken on her.In a candid interview with Maria Shriver, the actress and activist spoke at length about the newfound pride she\u2019s gained as a Ukrainian immigrant herself, why she\u2019s making it a point to tell her kids they\u2019re \u201chalf Ukrainian and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}