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Mila Kunis says she'll tell her kids "you are very poor"

Ashton & Mila's "poor baby"
Mila Kunis won't be raising entitled children 00:46

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are rich, but their kids are poor.

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis -- seen here attending Game 2 of the 2016 NBA Finals on June 5, 2016 in Oakland, California -- are expecting their second child together, Kunis' rep confirmed to ET on June 16, 2016. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

That's what they'll tell them, at least, Kunis says.

The actress said on Australian podcast "The Kyle and Jackie O Show" that she and her husband want their children to understand the value of a dollar.

"The one topic of conversation we had even prior to ever having kids was always, 'How do you raise a child to not be an a**hole?'" she said. "It's so important because we both came from pretty solid poverty backgrounds and grew up very poor and are very much self-made and are very aware of what a dollar is worth. Nothing's been handed to us."

The pregnant Hollywood star said she will explain to daughter Wyatt Isabelle and her younger sibling that they're not necessarily entitled to the money their parents earned.

"It's a matter of teaching them from a very early age that, you know, 'Mommy and Daddy may have a dollar, but you're poor,'" she jokes. "'You are very poor, you have nothing. Mommy and Daddy have a bank account.'"

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