# Mila Kunis: bourbon and/or baby? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 30, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895 "2014-03-30T14:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/41 "2014-03-31T13:56:28Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > If it’s not relevant to Kunis, in the author’s view, why the hell did the author include the sentence in the article about Kunis? Because celebrity gossip sells. I’m surprised you’ve been so taken in by this. On second thought, I’d like to hear what Kim Kardashian thinks of this before I make my final judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/42 "2014-03-31T13:57:57Z")
(omitted) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/43 "2014-03-31T13:59:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Because celebrity gossip sells. I’m surprised you’ve been so taken in by this. > > On second thought, I’d like to hear what Kim Kardashian thinks of this before I make my final judgement. What is the “gossip?” She _IS_ pregnant. She _is_ the spokesperson for Jim Beam. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/44 "2014-03-31T14:14:21Z")
Maybe they should stop any re-broadcast of “That 70’s Show”. Pregnant lady smoking pot is a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/45 "2014-03-31T14:24:15Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > What is the “gossip?” > > She _IS_ pregnant. She _is_ the spokesperson for Jim Beam. Are you under the impression that gossip can’t be true? ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/46 "2014-03-31T14:46:26Z")
Is everyone who sees a Jim Beam ad also an US Weekly subscriber? How will anyone know she’s pregnant unless they tell us in the ads? She’s an actress and, as you may know, pregnancy is a temporary condition. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/47 "2014-03-31T14:51:17Z")
I don’t see a problem. What leads to more pregnancy than alcohol? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/48 "2014-03-31T14:52:20Z")
Tom Jones songs? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/49 "2014-03-31T15:01:15Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Are you under the impression that gossip can’t be true? It can be. But celebrity endorsements are (IMO) more or less fictional constructs. I can’t imagine anyone is his right mind thinking that Mila Kunis is a bourbon expert who has dispassionately examined all the bourbons on the market and chosen this one as the best. She’s an actress. She makes a living pretending to be what she is not. Therefore the character she portrays in public life is not pregnant, any more than the character she played in _Black Swan_ is pregnant. “Mila Kunis drinks Jim Beam” is a fictional construct, just like “Mila Kunis is in love with Justin Timberlake” is. Besides, isn’t the restriction on actually drinking alcohol in a commercial still in place? She never actually drinks the stuff, pregnant or not. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/50 "2014-03-31T15:07:47Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Besides, isn’t the restriction on actually drinking alcohol in a commercial still in place? She never actually drinks the stuff, pregnant or not. I didn’t know there was such a restriction, but thinking about it, it doesn’t surprise me that there is. Even still, it would be BAD! BAD! BAD! to have her holding an alcoholic drink (or even something that wasn’t a drink, but was meant to look like on) in a commercial while she was visibly pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/51 "2014-03-31T15:49:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Even still, it would be BAD! BAD! BAD! to have her holding an alcoholic drink (or even something that wasn’t a drink, but was meant to look like on) in a commercial while she was visibly pregnant. Certainly. If she were visibly pregnant (or faked being pregnant) that would be making the fictional character who endorses Jim Beam pregnant. And then, every time the commercial played or was displayed, the story of “pregnant woman drinking” would be re-enacted, whether Mila Kunis is currently pregnant or not. It’s pretty much the opposite. Mila Kunis is pregnant, but the character she plays in endorsing Jim Beam is not, and never will be. Because it is understood, or should be, that she is only endorsing Jim Beam because they paid her to do so, just like she only takes any acting role because they pay her. What would be more interesting would be if she were arrested for drunk driving or something. In theory it’s the same - it should make no difference. But in practice it would violate the willing suspension of disbelief that holds that it is “really” Mila Kunis in the commercial ads. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/52 "2014-03-31T15:57:32Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I don’t see a problem. What leads to more pregnancy than alcohol? Sex? I certainly never got pregnant and I’ve had quite a lot alcohol in my life. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/53 "2014-03-31T16:19:29Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Are you under the impression that gossip can’t be true? Gossip can be true, but it is also by its nature unconfirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/54 "2014-03-31T16:21:15Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Jim Beam has rolled out a new ad series for their bourbon that feature Mila Kunis. > > It now appears that Ms. Kunis is expecting a child with her fiancée. > > Should Jim Beam stop running the ads now? > > (I prefer Maker’s Mark, myself, when I get in a bourbon mood.) But I don’t see any reason that Jim Beam should pull the ads. I have read at least one article with a tone that suggests that they should, although the article is Just Asking Questions. I don’t understand why Kunis’s real-life pregnancy would be an issue. Were not the ads shot before she was pregnant (or at least before she knew she was)? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/55 "2014-03-31T16:29:57Z")
> [@Rune](#): > > Sex? I certainly never got pregnant and I’ve had quite a lot alcohol in my life. Obviously you’ve been spontaneously aborting because of all the drink. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/56 "2014-03-31T16:40:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I don’t understand why Kunis’s real-life pregnancy would be an issue. Were not the ads shot before she was pregnant (or at least before she knew she was)? Bricker agrees. He’s just hoping someone here will pick up the other side of the argument. I think he should probably just write a letter to the authors of those articles. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/57 "2014-03-31T16:59:56Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Bricker agrees. He’s just hoping someone here will pick up the other side of the argument. I think he should probably just write a letter to the authors of those articles. Originally, that was my goal. I now have a second, parallel goal: to get John Mace to acknowledge that the authors of those articles are advancing the second side of the argument that no one here will pick up. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/58 "2014-03-31T17:10:18Z")
But they are “advancing” it in the most uninvested way. And it’s true that Kunis showing up at trade shows in maternity clothes pushing liquor is probably a bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/59 "2014-03-31T17:14:28Z")
I don’t really see them doing anything you weren’t doing with the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895/60 "2014-03-31T17:36:49Z")
Stop disappointing Bricker, people! Okay, fine, if no-one else will step up: YES, pull the ads and put the agency and all Jim Beam executives in jail for promoting turpitude and intemperence. Think of the children! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mila-kunis-bourbon-and-or-baby/684895.md?page=4)