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Prepping for Halloween can either be really easy or extremely difficult depending on what type of kids you have. If they want to be, say, Taylor Swift, tons of retailers are offering easy costumes to buy that look just like the popstar. But if they ask for something more obscure and complicated… Well, let’s just say I hope you know how to sew! Celebrity parents go through this pre-Halloween stress as well, and we can totally empathize. Mila Kunis just detailed the difference between Halloween shopping for her two kids, who she shares with husband Ashton Kutcher, and we’re exhausted just listening to her recount the story!
The That ‘70s Show alum appeared on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, where she and host Jimmy Kimmel spoke about parenting. When Kimmel asked whether her daughter Wyatt, 10, and son Dimitri, 7, “changed costumes every three days” for Halloween, she laughingly confirmed that they pretty much do.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 15: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis attend the 9th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
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“Okay, honest story… So they change costumes monthly,” Kunis said. “So I’m a person that doesn’t procure the costume until much later in the season. You know, I wait. Because the idea of the next costume happens on November 1. They’re like, ‘Ok, next year, I’m going to be…’ and I’m like, ‘Sure, sure, no problem.’”
“But I do have to tell you my son’s costume, it is actually really funny. So my daughter. Normal Amazon costume,” Kunis shares. “She wants to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Amazing, right? Like you go, click, buy now, sold. Awesome.” (BTW, she also mentioned later that she is dressing up as the Tin Man to go with her daughter, and Kutcher is going as the yellow brick road to go with her daughter, which are both Amazon costumes, too.)
“My son comes to me and goes, ‘I know what I want to be.’ And I was like, ‘Cool. Like, ninja? Vampire? Like, where we at?’ He’s like, ‘I want to be the torch holder from the opening of the Paris Olympics Games.’” *record scratch* what? This kid is definitely creative!
The audience “awed” and Kunis, called them out. “Who awed? Don’t awe! The costume doesn’t exist! It’s not a real costume,” she said. “It’s the guy that like ran around with the torch and like did parkour and things. And I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ And so then I Googled it and I was like, maybe Etsy makes it. Nope. Nobody.” Poor girl, I feel for her!
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She later boasted that she made the costume come together. “I have now done it. I did it, guys… I took the photo of the guy in the Olympic Games and I put on my computer and I was like, ‘Okay, I can do this.’ I’m gonna have to get a jacket that has gold buttons in the thing, and I started looking it all up and it was exhausting. Uh!” she said.
In the past, his Halloween costumes were a bit more conventional. “Last year he went as the grim reaper, like it was a costume with the little red eyes that glow. Fine costume. Buy now! Easy! This one, I had to get the torch, I had to get the cloak thing, I was like, oh my god, I’m like sweating bullets getting this together,” she added.
It turns out, Wyatt and Dimitri aren’t the only ones who act differently. Their parents also parent them differently, too. In an interview on the Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara podcast, the Your Place or Mine star opened up about how he and Kunis treat their kids differently.
“I don’t know if it equates to being a girl dad or it equates to her being my first, but when I had my daughter, I had never been so in love in my entire life. Mila and I talked about it a lot. I’ve never loved anyone this much ever,” he said.
“My son, I’m always like, ‘Yeah, go for it,’” he continued. “Like yesterday, we were popping wheelies on a bicycle in the driveway. Or it’s like, ‘See if you can jump down four stairs.’ [But] my daughter, I just want to protect her.”
Yet, Kunis is kind of flipped. “I also notice the same thing with my wife. She’s very strict with our daughter and a gushball with our son. I think we balance each other in that way,” he added.
Let’s just hope Dimitri doesn’t change his mind between now and October 31 — because knowing Kunis, she would probably cave and try to get him a different costume in time.
Before you go, check out Mila Kunis’ best quotes about raising kids.