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Name Pronunciation: Mee-luh or Mee-lee


So this is kinda driving me nuts now, even though I've never been a fan of her work. I thought I'd ask around here. What is the correct pronunciation of her first name? Mee-luh or Mee-lee?

Some of you might say Mee-lee makes little sense, and I would tend to agree if it weren't for the fact that in the only video I have found of the actress introducing herself, she clearly says Mee-lee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZC3qebO8e8). Every other source I have found specifies Mee-luh, even her somewhat creepy official website (http://www.millaj.com/faq.shtml). Quote for the lazy:

What is Milla's full name, and how do you pronounce it?
Milla (short for Militza) Jovovich: "mee-luh" (rhymes with Sheila) "yo-vo-vitch"

On her Wiki page, it says her full name is "Milica" (Mee-lee would make sense in that case), but that also contradicts her official site. So what gives? Can she not pronounce her own nickname? Could it be that even her most obsessive fans get it wrong? This discrepancy is weird.

I really don't give a *beep* either way, but I always like to know the correct pronunciation of names, and this one struck me as a strange case since it has no obvious answer that I could find.

Are there any Ukrainians around here who could give me a definite response?

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Milla is pronounced mee-luh, regardless of how Milica or Militza is pronounced. And watching your video, she clearly says Mee-luh, not Mee-lee.

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In that video, she's clearly pronouncing her name as "mee-luh" (and not "mee-lee"), although she's expressly speaking with an American/English accent so her name comes out as "meal-luhh yow-vo-vitch".

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