Editing Milla Jovovich (section)

==Early life and family==
Jovovich was born on December 17, 1975, in Kiev<!--Do NOT change spelling, see [[WP:KIEV]].--> (now [[Kyiv]]), Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.<ref name=history>{{cite news | title = Mila Jovović peva zanimljive pesme | url = http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2000/07/18/srpski/F00071702.shtm | newspaper = [[Glas Javnosti]] | date = July 7, 2000 | access-date = May 15, 2013 | language = sr | archive-date = July 27, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110727022223/http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2000/07/18/srpski/F00071702.shtm | url-status = live }}</ref> She is the daughter of [[Galina Jovovich|Galina]] ({{Nee|Loginova}}), a Russian actress, and Bogdan Jovović, a [[Serbs|Serbian]] doctor.<ref name="boomsbeat.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.boomsbeat.com/articles/21554/20150626/50-things-milla-jovovich-speaks-fluent-russian-serbian-french.htm|title=50 facts about Milla Jovovich: speaks fluent Russian, Serbian, and French|date=June 26, 2015|website=boomsbeat.com|access-date=February 12, 2016|archive-date=February 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216082513/http://www.boomsbeat.com/articles/21554/20150626/50-things-milla-jovovich-speaks-fluent-russian-serbian-french.htm|url-status=live |last1=Hrabkovska |first1=Silvia }}</ref><ref name="SC3532">{{cite web |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/interview-milla-jovovich-millas-crossing-2443532 |title=Interview: Milla Jovovich – Milla's crossing |website=[[The Scotsman]] |date=August 7, 2009 |access-date  = October 6, 2021 |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006025720/https://www.scotsman.com/news/interview-milla-jovovich-millas-crossing-2443532 |url-status=live}}</ref> Her maternal ancestors were from [[Tula, Russia|Tula]].<ref name=EG>{{cite interview | subject = [[Galina Loginova]] | interviewer = Nadezhda Repina | script-title = ru:Милла Йовович вернулась к режиссеру Андерсену | publisher = Экспресс газета Online | date = December 2006 | url = http://www.eg.ru/daily/cadr/8574 | language = ru | access-date = February 24, 2017 | archive-date = March 3, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170303045807/http://www.eg.ru/daily/cadr/8574/ | url-status = live }} Expressing her disagreement with several newspapers that presented Jovovich as a "Ukrainian actress", her mother Galina says, "They may call us whatever they want. My parents are Russian, from Tula. Milla is half Russian, half Montenegrin. But, I think, she considers herself of Russian descent".</ref> Jovovich spent most of her early childhood in [[Moscow]], her mother's native city. Jovovich has stated that she was born in Ukraine "pretty much by accident",<ref name="Sunderland">{{cite web | title = I'm Russian: everything will set me off! | url = https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunderland-echo/20170201/281904477905785/ | newspaper = [[Sunderland Echo]] | date = February 1, 2017 | access-date = January 3, 2018 | language = en | archive-date = January 4, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180104013857/https://www.pressreader.com/uk/sunderland-echo/20170201/281904477905785/ | url-status = live }}</ref> while she has no memories of her early years there.<ref name=Vogue2016>{{cite interview | subject = Milla Jovovich | interviewer = Darya Slobodyanik | title = Интервью c Миллой Йовович для октябрьского Vogue UA | publisher = Vogue | date = October 2016 | url = http://vogue.ua/article/culture/kino/miloe-delo-intervyu-c-miloy-yovovich-v-cover-story-vogue-ua.html | language = ru | access-date = February 24, 2017 | archive-date = March 2, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170302112556/http://vogue.ua/article/culture/kino/miloe-delo-intervyu-c-miloy-yovovich-v-cover-story-vogue-ua.html | url-status = live }}</ref> However, Jovovich "remembers a lot" about her life in Russia.<ref name="Purple2009">{{cite interview | subject = Milla Jovovich | interviewer = Olivier Zahm | title = Milla Jovovich | publisher = Purple | date = 2009 | url = http://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2009-issue-12/milla-jovovich | access-date = February 24, 2017 | archive-date = April 7, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220407213119/https://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2009-issue-12/milla-jovovich/ | url-status = live }}</ref>

In 1980, she immigrated with her family to London<ref name="Sunderland" /> and then [[Sacramento, California]]<ref name="SSSlang">{{cite book |last=Lopusina |first=Marko |author-link=Marko Lopušina |url=http://www.suc.org/culture/library/svi_srbi_sveta/ |title=Svi Srbi sveta |publisher=Princip |year=1998 |isbn=86-82273-07-1 |location=Belgrade |language=sr |chapter=Holivud je srpsko selo |quote=Srpski nikada nije dobro naucila, ruski joj je ostao maternji jezik |access-date=May 15, 2013 |chapter-url=http://www.suc.org/culture/library/svi_srbi_sveta/tekstovi/sad_holivud_je_srpsko_selo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060709123050/http://www.suc.org/culture/library/svi_srbi_sveta/ <!--Added by H3llBot--> |archive-date=July 9, 2006}}</ref> before settling in [[Los Angeles]] seven months later. Jovovich's parents divorced soon after their arrival. In 1988, her father had a relationship with an Argentine woman, with whom he had a son.<ref>{{cite interview | subject = Milla Jovovich | interviewer = J. Rentilly | title = Milla Jovovich | work = Gallery | date = July 2002 | url = http://www.millaj.com/art/gallery0702.shtml | access-date = May 15, 2013 | archive-date = October 2, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131002122456/http://www.millaj.com/art/gallery0702.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Frequently Asked Questions | publisher = millaj.com | url = http://www.millaj.com/faq.shtml | access-date = May 15, 2013 | archive-date = April 25, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210425131846/http://www.millaj.com/faq.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref> Due to her parents' divorce years before, Jovovich saw little of her half brother.<ref>{{cite web|title=Milla Jovovich |work=[[E!]] |url=http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/?uuid=c0c3a631-15a9-4901-b728-13cbb74e660f |access-date=December 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215004747/http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/?uuid=c0c3a631-15a9-4901-b728-13cbb74e660f |archive-date=December 15, 2007 }}</ref>

In Los Angeles, her mother tried to get acting jobs but found little success because of language barriers, and eventually resorted to cleaning houses to earn money. Both of Jovovich's parents served as cooks and housekeepers<ref name="Sunderland" /> for director [[Brian De Palma]].<ref name="Wang">{{cite journal | last = Wang | first = Jen | title = Thoroughly Modern Milla | journal = California Style | url = http://millaj.com/art/c0506.shtml | access-date = May 15, 2013 | archive-date = July 14, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110714094536/http://millaj.com/art/c0506.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref> Her father was convicted and imprisoned for participating in the largest health-insurance fraud ever investigated. He was given a 20-year sentence in 1994<ref name="prison" /><ref name="NYT">{{cite news| agency=The Associated Press |title=2 Are Ordered to Pay $185 Million in Health Insurance Fraud |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1994/09/25/344524.html?pageNumber=31|issue=September 29, 1994|work=The New York Times |date=September 29, 1994|page=31|language=en}}</ref> but was released in 1999.<ref name="V Russia">{{cite news | last = Paperny | first = Vladimir | title = Honest Milla | magazine = Vogue (Russia) | date = May 2000 | url = http://www.millaj.com/art/voguerus500.shtml | access-date = November 19, 2007 | archive-date = April 1, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090401163356/http://www.millaj.com/art/voguerus500.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref> Jovovich has stated, "Prison was good for him. He's become a much better person. It gave him a chance to stop and think."<ref name="telegraph" />

She attended public schools in Los Angeles, becoming fluent in English in three months.<ref>{{cite news | last = Eaton | first = Anne | title = Dressed to Kill | magazine = [[Star (magazine)|Star]] | date = March 1988 | url = http://www.millaj.com/art/star030888.shtml | access-date = May 15, 2013 | archive-date = July 14, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110714094725/http://www.millaj.com/art/star030888.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref> She was [[Anti-Russian sentiment|teased by classmates for coming from the Soviet Union]]. Jovovich has stated, "I was called a [[commie]] and a Russian spy. I was [never] accepted into the crowd."<ref name="Europe">{{cite web |last= Cushing |first= Colin |title= Just Milla, please |year= 1996 |url= http://www.millaj.com/art/eol96eng1.shtml |access-date= May 15, 2013 |archive-date= July 14, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110714094751/http://www.millaj.com/art/eol96eng1.shtml |url-status= live }}</ref> At age 12, she left seventh grade to focus on modeling,<ref name="Sunderland" /> which she had started at age nine.<ref name="cafe">{{cite interview |work=The Celebrity Cafe |subject=Milla Jovovich |interviewer=Dominick A. Miserandino |title=Jovovich, Milla&nbsp;– supermodel, actress, singer, songwriter |year=1994 |url=http://thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/milla.html |access-date=May 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720152907/http://thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/milla.html |archive-date=July 20, 2013 }}</ref> According to Jovovich, she was rebellious during her early teens, engaging in drug use, shopping-mall vandalism, and credit-card fraud.<ref name="telegraph" /> She became a [[naturalized U.S. citizen]] in 1994.<ref name=houstonpress>{{cite news|url=http://www.houstonpress.com/1994-12-15/music/milla-in-3-d/|first=Brad|last=Tyer|date=December 15, 1994|work=[[Houston Press]]|title=Milla in 3-D|access-date=May 15, 2013|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402112911/http://www.houstonpress.com/1994-12-15/music/milla-in-3-d/|url-status=dead}}</ref>