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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.

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MILA KUNIS has heaped praise on her mother for forcing her to work in a drugstore as a teen - even after she had landed her big break on THAT '70S SHOW. The actress has credited her parents, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when Kunis was a child, with helping her remain humble at the start of her career by encouraging her to work at a store near their California home.

She tells FoxNews.com, "My mother made me work at Rite-Aid, because my parents work full-time. I worked at 70's on Laurel and Ventura and I couldn't drive because I wasn't sixteen 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. "My parents did a fantastic job raising me. I cannot even begin to explain the stuff they made me do. My parents really made me have a regular life."

Mila Kunis was one of the stars of “That 70’s Show” and umm… that’s about it. Oh but she is banging that kid from “Home Alone”, Macaulay Culkin, so she’s got that going for her. Anyway apparently she did a photo shoot for GQ Magazine and here are the outtakes. Outtakes are pictures that the magazine has not had a chance to Photoshop large breasts on and airbrush every blemish and imperfection so the model looks like some sort of porcelain doll. So try not to puke all over your computer looking at these flawed pictures of Mila.

Even though she has not been Photoshoped to perfection yet I have to say Mila Kunis is an attractive girl. Of course I am middle eastern so I really dig that dark look. My only complaint would be that she needs more hair on her body and face. It makes a woman look more distinguished.

She may be one of the most in-demand stars in Hollywood, but actress Mila Kunis says her mother kept her humble by forcing her to work a part-time retail gig  – even when she was starring alongside Ashton Kutcher, Topher Grace and Wilmer Valderrama in “That ‘70’s Show.”“My mother made me work at Rite-Aid, because my parents work full-time. I worked at '70’s' on Laurel & Ventura and I couldn’t drive because I wasn’t sixteen yet, so my mother would come on her lunch break and pick me up from work,” Kunis told Tarts while promoting her latest flick, the post-apocalyptic tale “The Book of Eli.” “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.

And despite the glitz and glam that can often seduce young stars, Kunis always had her feet firmly on the ground.
“My parents did a fantastic job raising me,” she said. “I cannot even begin to explain the stuff they made me do – they took my keys away, there is so much there. My parents really made me have a regular life.”Perhaps that’s why Kunis has managed to keep herself DUI and sex-tape free. But even in her not-so-regular life as a film star, the 26-year-old has had to deal with some harsh realities and has spent the last few months battling injury after injury, thanks to the heavy training regime that comes with playing a ballerina in “Black Swan” alongside the very skilled Natalie Portman. “I’ve dislocated my shoulder,” Kunis said when we asked how her body was holding up. “But Natalie is doing fantastic because she’s been dancing for a little bit longer than I have.”

If, like me, you are embarrassingly devastated that tonight marks the final episode of MTV's "Jersey Shore," I have good news for you: a big screen version is in the works! OK, that's a lie. Kind of. On tonight's episode of "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson," Mila Kunis, Nick Lachey and Thomas Lennon pitch a potential big screen version of the series by stepping into the poofs, abs and Ed Hardy tee's their small screen counterparts have made so iconic.

PopWatch got the exclusive sneak peek and now you can check it out below! (And for the record, we might have chosen Nick Lachey for a diff "Shore"-er, but he still made the cut!)

For Mila Kunis, "The Book of Eli" was an opportunity to open up a new chapter on her career. After eight seasons on the Fox sitcom "That '70s Show" and appearances in comedies like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Tony and Tina's Wedding," the actress was ready to be taken seriously.

A gritty, post-apocalyptic thriller, "Eli" gives Kunis a role unlike any she's had before. She appears glammed-down in dusty jeans and flannel shirts, with little or no makeup. But if it was up to her, she'd have looked much worse.

"I wanted gnarly teeth," moans the actress, 26. "But they were, like, 'uh, no.' Why? Because apparently an American audience would not want to look at me for two hours with gnarly teeth. I disagree."

In the movie, which opened today, the world's population is reduced to small bands of grimy survivors, including good guy Eli (Denzel Washington) and his nemesis, the power-mad Carnegie (Gary Oldman) -- the subject of billboards all around Wilmington that say "Religion is Power." Almost everybody looks like they've been to hell and back, with the exception of Kunis.

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Mila Kunis is picture perfect in a one-shoulder gown by Vera Wang and Casadei black suede platforms at the premiere of her film, The Book of Eli, on Monday (January 11) in Hollywood. The 26-year-old beauty posed for pictures with co-stars Gary Oldman, Denzel Washington and Jennifer Beals.

Mila recently told Parade she’s not sure she could survive a post-apocalyptic world like the one in Eli: “I would fail. I would fail miserably,” she said. “I would need what’s his name, Bear Grylls, who does that survival show Man vs. Wild. I would need him with me because I wouldn’t know what to eat.”

Mila Kunis may be best known for comedies (That '70s Show, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), but she can handle action scenes when she needs to. In Max Payne, Kunis played a Russian assassin. In The Book of Eli, directed by the Hughes brothers and starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, Kunis plays a servant under Oldman's thumb who breaks free to go on a journey with Washington's character, Eli.

The action scenes were made more difficult due to issues with Mother Nature. The weather didn't exactly cooperate with the production, but they trudged through nonetheless. "The weather was a little bit complicated. The weather didn't know what it wanted to be. It was snowing one day and then wind the next day and then sunshine and rain," said Kunis, laughing. "I didn't really have many stunts. Denzel had most of the stunts. He ran a lot. Walking for me is hard enough and so running, I was like, 'Whew. This is going to be rough.

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With her latest movie, Mila Kunis may finally fulfill her destiny. Having begun acting professionally at age nine, the Ukraine-born beauty rose to fame playing goofy comedy on television’s That ’70s Show. Now with the dystopian drama The Book of Eli, she shares company with such an esteemed thespian as Denzel Washington a step in the right direction.

“He’s a very powerful man,” said Kunis during a recent interview. “At this point in my career, I like to work with people that I admire and people I respect and can learn from, and an opportunity to work with Denzel Washington, you can’t really pass it up.”In the movie, Kunis joins Washington as a post-apocalyptic survivor protecting a sacred book as he seeks to fulfill its destiny in the West. It’s a much more mature role for Kunis who, until relatively recently, didn’t take her job seriously.

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Best known for her roles as Jackie Burkhart in That 70’s Show and as the voice of Meg on the hit animated series Family Guy, Mila Kunis has also established herself as a feature film star with an impressive resume that includes the Mike Judge comedy Extract, the action thriller Max Payne and the Judd Apatow comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Currently filming the Darren Aronofsky thriller Black Swan, in which she plays a professional ballerina, her next release is The Book of Eli, in which she plays Solara, an innocent girl wanting to discover what else life could offer her, in a world that has been ravaged by apocalyptic wars. With Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman already attached as co-stars and the Hughes Brothers already set to direct, it was an easy choice for her to take on the multi-layered role. Mila Kunis talked at the film’s press day about her desire to play strong women who aren’t the victim. Read what she had to say after the jump.

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