Mila Kunis claims she was told never to talk about her Jewish faith growing up

Mila Kunis claims she was told never to talk about her Jewish faith growing up

While the actress, who was born in Ukraine, “grew up doing nothing” in terms of her Jewish faith, her family does practice some of the religious aspects now.

Mila Kunis is opening up about her Jewish faith in adulthood versus during her childhood.

The actress, 41, joined Noa Tishby in a video published Thursday, Dec. 26, where they lit a candle to mark the second night of Hanukkah and discussed her experience with Judaism from the time she was a child in Ukraine.

“I grew up doing nothing,” she said of not practicing any religious traditions as a kid in Ukraine, before she moved to the United States with her family at age 8 in the early 1990s.

“I always knew I was Jewish, but I was told never to talk about it,” Kunis continued. “I think because I was in a country that didn’t allow for religion.”

Kunis and husband Ashton Kutcher have incorporated more religious practices into their home now, and their two kids, daughter Wyatt, 10, and son Dimitri, 8, are involved too.