Milena Markovna Kunis, the daughter of a couple who are Ukrainian Jews was born on August 14, 1983 , in Chernivtsi (now Ukraine) to the Ukrainian SSR. [4] Elvira Kunis is her mother, and she manages a pharmacy. Mark Kunis is her father who is a mechanical engineer who is also a driver. Kunis is the oldest sister of Michael. [6][7] Her parents survived the Holocaust. The mother tongue of her family and the most common language in her family is Russian. Conan O'Brien's Needs a Friend Kunis admitted that she does not speak Ukrainian when she was a participant in Conan O'Brien's Needs a Friend Kunis. She said that Russian was her main native language during her time in Russia. The children were not taught Ukrainian at school until they entered the second grade, which was the time she left to move to the United States. [10] In 2011, she declared that her parents were "amazing" and that she was "very fortunate". Her family was not poor and she said they had quit the Soviet Union as they "saw no hope" for Mila and her brother. The family relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 with the sum of $250 when she was just seven years old. "That was all we could take with us. My parents had to give up jobs and degrees, that were not transferable. Our arrival to New York was on Wednesday. By Friday morning my brother and I were at school.
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