Ashton Kutcher has finally decided to put his past comments to rest. Nearly five years after the *That '70s Show* alum and his wife, Mila Kunis, sparked rumors that they don't regularly shower, he addressed the discourse about their bathing habits. "It was the craziest thing of all time," Ashton told *People* in an interview published on January 19th. "We made a comment at one point, and people were like, 'Does he stink? Does he smell?'"
However, the 47-year-old put an end to the rumors that prompted a crowd to chant "Take a shower" during his September 2021 appearance on ESPN's *College GameDay*. "People are like, 'They don't shower,'" he continued. "I'm like, 'I shower, I go to the gym, I shower.'"
So, what prompted Ashton and Mila to be at the center of the hygiene debate? During a joint July 2021 appearance on Dax Shepard's *Armchair Expert* podcast, the couple made light of their in-shower experience while debating whether using a bar of soap is healthy for the body's natural skin oils. "I don't wash my body with soap every day," Mila said at the time. "But I wash pits and t-ts and holes and soles."
The *Black Swan* actress, who grew up in Ukraine, added, "I didn't have hot water growing up as a child, so I didn't shower very much anyway." And Ashton admitted he also takes a minimalist approach. "I wash my armpits and my crotch daily, and nothing else ever," he added. "I got a bar of Lever 2000 that just delivers every time. Nothing else."
Then, Mila—who shares daughter Wyatt Isabell, 11, and son Dimitri Portwood, 9, with Ashton—explained that she expanded her shower mentality to her parenting approach. "When I had children, I also didn't wash them every day," she said. "I wasn't the parent that bathed my newborns—ever."
Agreeing with his wife, Ashton added, "Now, here's the thing: If you can see the dirt on them, clean them. Otherwise, there's no point."
