Olivia Munn had a hysterectomy as part of breast cancer treatment
Actress Olivia Munn announced that she has had “an oophorectomy and hysterectomy. I took out my uterus, fallopian rubes, and ovaries.”
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Olivia Munn is learning both the joys and pitfalls of being a mother of two.
On Monday, she joined Jenna Bush-Hager as a guest host on “Today with Jenna and Friends” to kick off her weeklong cohosting gig, and they opened the episode by commiserating over parenthood. In September, Munn and her husband, John Mulaney, welcomed their second child, Méi June, who is younger sister to 3-year-old Malcolm.
“It is so much fun every single day,” Munn told Bush-Hager about the past six months with a family of four. “With one child, as we all know, it’s awesome. It’s difficult; you’re learning new things. Your life is changing.”
She continued, “But then two, it’s like I just landed on Mars. This is insane. How does anybody do this?”
Munn, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, admitted that she “did have a moment of a real breakdown, a real big breakdown,” while in New York in December for Mulaney’s two weeks of daily Broadway rehearsals.
“My 3-year-old hit his limit,” she said. “It was, like, screaming, crying, and saying things to me where my feelings were getting hurt. … And he didn’t want me to be with my daughter because the jealousy was coming in, and I just broke down crying. A cry that I have never cried.”
However, the “X-Men: Apocalypse” actress found a silver lining and started to see the humor in her children’s tumultuous emotions.
“I was so distraught, but then I had this realization. I said, ‘You know what? God willing, we get to work as much as we are working now forever. God willing, we’re shifting and jumping around and moving everywhere.’ And we’re so lucky,” she told Bush-Hager. “Every time there is a breakdown or a fit or whatever, it makes me laugh. It’s so much that I have to turn away so I don’t condone it, but everything just makes me really happy.”
Bush-Hager – who has three children, 12-year-old Mila, 9-year-old Poppy and 5-year-old Hal – relayed advice for when Munn’s kids get older.
“I’m not going to be in all of my kids’ memories, (and) I shouldn’t be. We should make our kids feel confident so they can go and be their own people,” Bush-Hager said, calling it a “crazy realization” that happened when her pre-teen daughter wanted to trick-or-treat with her friends.
In what could be read as a bid at co-hosting the “Today” show, Munn also said at the top of the show that she loves “being live. I love that I can say whatever I want to say,” noting too that she’d gotten her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.
Since Hoda Kotb’s departure from NBC in January, Bush-Hager has had a rotation of co-hosts, from Scarlett Johansson to Amy Poehler, Savannah Guthrie, sister Barbara Bush, Wynonna Judd and Taraji P. Henson.
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