Olivia Munn has revealed that she decided to undergo ‘risky’ egg retrieval amid her ‘tiring’ cancer battle because she and her partner John Mulaney are desperate to have ‘one more baby.’
Olivia, 43, who is already mom to her two-year-old son Malcolm, revealed earlier this year that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2023 and has undergone four surgeries, including a double mastectomy, with the treatment putting her into medically induced menopause.
In an exclusive interview with Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan, the X-Men: Apocalypse actress confirmed that she made the decision to go through a round of egg retrieval because she and 41-year-old John ‘weren’t done growing our family.’
‘John and I talked about it. Right after the double mastectomy I went through a round of egg retrieval. That’s scary because I have a cancer that feeds off of hormones so I knew there was a risk,’ Olivia told Michael, whose daughter Isabella was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in October 2023.
Olivia Munn shared a health update amid her ‘tiring’ cancer battle in an exclusive interview with Good Morning America
Olivia and her partner John Mulaney, who are parents to two-year-old son Malcolm, are desperate to have just ‘one more baby’
Since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, the actress has undergone four surgeries including a double mastectomy
Olivia said she decided to document her cancer journey online because she wants her son to know that she ‘fought to be here’
‘Our doctor said, “look, we’re going to get one for you and then we’re going to call it”. Then the doctor called and he said, “hey, we got the results back, it’s two healthy embryos”. We just started bawling crying, both of us.
‘I really just hope it works out for us to have another baby. We just want one more. I’m not going to ask for too much more in this life, I promise. I just want one more baby,’ Olivia explained.
Referring to the treatment, the mother-of-one continued: ‘The hormone suppression therapy is brutal. It gave me next level debilitating exhaustion, I was in bed all day long, all day long. My quality of life was so minimal. I wasn’t able to be there for my baby.’
When Michael asked if Malcolm had ‘noticed a change’ in his mother, Olivia replied: ‘Yeah. I mean, whenever Malcolm would come home, he would run to my bed because that’s where he knows I am.
‘That’s what he associated with me, that was just too difficult for me to take. I had to find out if there was another option so I opted to do the hysterectomy with the ovariectomy. Almost immediately after that my energy just came back full force,’ she added.
