If you ever walked into a drugstore in Los Angeles and saw a teenage clerk that looked exactly like Mila Kunis... well, it was probably her! The 26-year-old's big break was landing a starring role on Fox's sitcom That '70s Show when she was just 14. And as Kunis was enjoying her first taste of fame, her hardworking parents made sure she wouldn't become another spoiled Hollywood starlet.

“My mother made me work at Rite Aid, because my parents work full-time," the Book of Eli star recently told Fox News' Pop Tarts blog. "I worked at [That '70s Show] on Laurel & Ventura and I couldn’t drive because I wasn’t 16 yet, so my mother would come on her lunch break and pick me up from work. But she didn’t have time to drop me off back home, so I would have to go to work with her, and what did I do for six hours? My mother would put me behind the photo or ice cream counter and made me work.

That may sound like an atypical approach to parenting in Hollywood, where the perception is that underage teens regularly go wild on the club scene. But Kunis' parents aren't typical: they're Ukranian immigrants who moved to L.A. when the actress was 8 years old. (If you saw Ashton Kutcher "punk" his former '70s Show costar, you know Kunis speaks fluent Russian.) And the star, who has been romantically linked with Macaulay Culkin since 2002, is nothing but grateful for their efforts.

“My parents did a fantastic job raising me," she says. "I cannot even begin to explain the stuff they made me do... they took my keys away... My parents really made me have a regular life."Next up in Kunis' not-so-regular Hollywood life: a starring role alongside Natalie Portman in the ballet-themed thriller Black Swan.