--- title: Mila Kunis Doesn't Believe Work-Life Balance Exists description: Simply put, Mila Kunis doesn't think the perfect work-parenting balance exists. canonical: https://time.com/4413873/mila-kunis-work-life-balance/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-19T22:07:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:58.210Z og:title: Mila Kunis Says Work-Life Balance 'Doesn't Exist' og:description: 'It is your work or your kid, but you can’t balance it' og:url: https://time.com/4413873/mila-kunis-work-life-balance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd25a2d48ea71b38/69889ca15f570fea38b21c57/mila-kunis-working-mom-balance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "Bad Moms" New York Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mila Kunis Says Work-Life Balance 'Doesn't Exist' twitter:description: 'It is your work or your kid, but you can’t balance it' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd25a2d48ea71b38/69889ca15f570fea38b21c57/mila-kunis-working-mom-balance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mila Kunis Says Work-Life Balance 'Doesn't Exist' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Michael Stewart/Getty Images) Michael Stewart/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 19, 2016 10:07 PM UTC [Mila Kunis](http://motto.time.com/4395096/mila-kunis-makeup-glamour/) doesn’t think the perfect work-parenting balance exists. When [asked](http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/mila-kunis-bad-moms-having-it-all.html) by The Cut on Monday how women could “have it all” — the perfect marriage, kids, and career — Kunis argued, “Simply put, the idea of balance doesn’t exist.” “It is your work or your kid, but you can’t balance it. There is really, in my opinion, no such thing. One will take a weight,” she said. As the mother of a toddler girl, Kunis has fresh insight on the subject. This very idea is a theme in Kunis’ new film _Bad Moms,_ which centers around parents who are done being “perfect.” In the [movie’s trailer](http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/bad-moms-movie-trailer.html), Kunis’ character says in a moment of defiance, “I’m so tired of trying to be this perfect mom.” Many working moms are speaking out against the idea of “having it all.” [Anne-Marie Slaughter](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/)‘s 2012 article in The Atlantic challenged the very notion of the term, and a chorus of voices have followed in pushing back. New York Senator [Kirsten Gillibrand](http://motto.time.com/4202685/kirsten-gillibrand-women-work/) wrote on Motto, “Instead of continuing the old debate about ‘having it all,’ let’s focus on the very real challenges of ‘doing it all’—and then raise our voices to fix these challenges.” Kunis’ solution for balancing the work? Asking for help. She told The Cut that she has an “amazing support system,” and added: “A happy woman, a fulfilled woman, will only make a better mother. And at the end of the day, I have to be happy with who I am and what I do.” [\[The Cut\]](http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/mila-kunis-bad-moms-having-it-all.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4413873/mila-kunis-work-life-balance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4413873/mila-kunis-work-life-balance/"},"headline":"Mila Kunis Says Work-Life Balance 'Doesn't Exist'","datePublished":"2016-07-19T22:07:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:58.210Z","description":"'It is your work or your kid, but you can’t balance it'","url":"https://time.com/4413873/mila-kunis-work-life-balance/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd25a2d48ea71b38/69889ca15f570fea38b21c57/mila-kunis-working-mom-balance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd25a2d48ea71b38/69889ca15f570fea38b21c57/mila-kunis-working-mom-balance.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Bad Moms\" New York Premiere","caption":"\"Bad Moms\" New York Premiere","creditText":"Michael Stewart/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4413873/mila-kunis-work-life-balance/","name":"Mila Kunis Says Work-Life Balance 'Doesn't Exist'"}}]}] ```