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 revealing more details about her health difficulties over the past few years.
The “Newsroom” alum is set to star in the Apple TV series “Your Friends & Neighbors,” premiering Friday, and opened up to Self magazine about returning to acting after yearslong health struggles.
In a story published Thursday, Munn told Self that after having 5-year-old son Malcolm, she “didn’t even have the ability to fake it” after “feeling very depressed” during her “brutal” postpartum journey. Due to the rocky post-birth process, Munn made the decision to welcome daughter Méi with comedian John Mulaney through surrogacy.
Last May, Munn got candid in a Vogue interview about how she also underwent a hysterectomy amid her breast cancer battle. The actress and Mulaney were married last July, and in September, they welcomed Méi.
“It was devastating for me not to be able to carry (Méi). I loved carrying my son (Malcolm),” Munn told Self.
Munn said that during her postpartum journey, “my eyes pop open at 4 a.m. I’m gasping for air. I get the tightness in my chest, and it’s like that all day long. It felt like the end of the world. … It was like when you watch a horror movie – the worst, scariest horror movie you can think of – that’s how my body felt.”
She added: “I would have to sometimes hold John’s arm from room to room. It was physical, almost as if I had sprained my knee.” The “Daily Show” alum told Self that she “could not make any breast milk,” and that “I think (that) kicked off the anxiety.”
“When you stop breastfeeding immediately, your hormones drop, and postpartum can come in like a tornado. And I didn’t clock any of that and I didn’t tell anybody about that,” Munn continued. “Then it was like I fell off a cliff, and I was just falling and falling and falling and falling. It was more difficult than going through cancer.”
Olivia Munn, John Mulaney still keep in touch with surrogate
The power-couple parents found their surrogate, who lives in Massachusetts, through an agency. Munn said that “the surrogate’s still in our life, she was a better pregnant woman than I ever could have been.”
“First of all, she doesn’t know any celebrities,” Munn said, telling Self the duo valued one thing most in their search: “Above everything else, I just wanted her to be kind.”
According to Munn, the surrogate is “an incredible mother, an incredible human being, an incredible friend, just wonderful.”
“I needed (her) to understand that I needed to go this route. It wasn’t for superficial reasons or because I wanted to put my work first. I’m not saying that any of those reasons aren’t valid for those people. And I’m not judging anyone who makes those decisions based on that, but I needed her to understand this would be hard for me,” Munn added.
Contributing: Brendan Morrow
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