A Field Guide To Mila Kunis

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As you've probably heard, Mila Kunis was voted Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive recently, so we figured now is the perfect time to immerse ourselves in a sea of Kunis-ness and learn how she acquired such sex appeal over the course of her career. Maybe we'll learn a thing or two and we can be the Sexiest Woman Alive next year! (Right?)

Milena Markovna Kunis was born August 14, 1983 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR. Although her parents had good jobs and were fairly well off under Soviet rule, they left for Los Angeles when Mila was seven (1991), mostly because they felt the kids had no future there and partially due to the pervasive antisemitism of the culture at the time. Kunis says she has no recollection of second grade in California because she knew absolutely nothing of English and had no idea how to operate in America.

Only two years later, Mila's father enrolled her in acting classes, and on her first audition, she landed a role in a Barbie commercial. (And did you know that Christina Applegate, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Amanda Bynes, and Fergie all appeared in Barbie commercials when they were young? Take it away, conspiracy theorists!) She had a bunch of minor parts over the following years, but her breakout role was playing Jackie on "That '70s Show." She was fourteen when she first got the gig, and since the part was supposed to be for an eighteen year-old, she lied to the producers; when they found her out, they didn't care because she was so damn good. A year later, she replaced Lacey Chabert as the voice of Meg on "Family Guy." It's hard to believe that Mila Kunis stepped into two of her most beloved roles at the ages of fourteen and fifteen, but such is the magic of Mila!

Mila turned eighteen in 2001, and she also started appearing in movies that year, so here the sexiness begins. In 2002, she was in the direct-to-video "American Psycho 2," playing an obsessive young woman who rises to the top of her criminology courses by killing off her classmates. We watched this movie half-drunk through On-Demand television one night, and critics absolutely hated this film, so why are we mentioning it? Well, it's the first time that Mila tried to seduce the audience, and even as a young starlet, she could confidently kill people by blowing kisses at them (as long as they're standing in front of an open window).

The first of Mila's films to be taken seriously were "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Max Payne" in 2008. The fact that she was able to improvise a bunch of genuinely funny lines in one movie and then go through a bunch of firearms and combat training to play a headstrong assassin in another demonstrated her range, and people took notice, realizing that her beauty is matched by her wit and strong sense of humor. Mike Judge, who later directed her in "Extract," once said of Mila, "As beautiful as Mila is, you could believe that maybe she would cross paths with you in the real world."

Hands down, the sexiest role we've ever seen Mila in is that of Lily in "Black Swan." Natalie Portman's performance was spectacular, but it wouldn't have been as good without Mila's dark influence paired with that self-assured smile of hers. Every now and then, we think back to the first time we saw Mila go down on Natalie in that film, getting rough and licking her thigh, and it gives us chills. In fact, here's that scene now:

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Most everything about the woman gives us chills, and the more we read about her, the more we fall in love with her. Some people worry that being labelled the Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire will only make people pay attention to her good looks and not the other facets of her being, but they forget that she's been consistently appearing on "sexiest" lists done by the likes of FHM, GQ, and Maxim, and yet we're still drooling over brain.

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· Nothing. Mila Kunis doesn't have a Twitter account. She doesn't like tweeting.
· Nor does she have a Facebook page.
· You'll simply have to watch her movies and read her interviews to get to know her better.

[Photos and video at top via Esquire (esquire.com)]