Mila Kunis is turning heads with her steamy pictorial in the latest issue of Esquire magazine which has named her the Sexiest Woman Alive. But Mila is actually very picky about the magazines for which she (almost) bares it all …and that has almost cost her her career in the past.

Mila opened up to Esquire and spoke of a time when she refused to do a photo shoot for one particular magazine to promote her movie ‘Max Payne’ in 2008, and the fallout over her refusal:

“My career was threatened over me not wanting to do the cover of a magazine by an executive. Oh, that’s not even true. A person higher than an executive. It was like, ‘If you don’t do this magazine, you’ll never work in this company’.

“I went, ‘Great.’ It was the first time that I had someone on the phone tell me that I will never work in this industry again.“I said, ’I’m sorry, what did you say?’ It wasn’t Playboy, but it was a magazine I didn’t want to do.It’s very simple. I just didn’t want to do it. I said I would do that one and that one, just not this one.

“And this person couldn’t accept no. In my twenty-nine years, I’ve never met someone who lied as much as this person did. You know when little kids look at you with chocolate all over their face, and then you say, ‘Why did you eat that chocolate?’ And they say, ‘I didn’t eat chocolate,’ and you say, “But you have it on your face.” It was worse than that. There are good, honest people who work their asses off and don’t reach nearly as much success as this person does.“People in this industry lie so much, they believe their lies. That’s what I learned on that movie. I learned people are a******s and people lie. I think that was the turning point of my career. Where I said no!”