Olivia Munn is continuing to update her fans on her health status. Just a few months after candidly revealing that she was diagnosed with “aggressive” Luminal B cancer in both breasts after undergoing genetic testing, the 43-year-old actress confessed that she also chose to undergo a full hysterectomy. The surgery reportedly took place last month, and it was her fifth surgery in her ongoing cancer battle.
Olivia first shared the details of her cancer battle with her fans back in March, and revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy. In a brand new interview with Vogue, published on May 12th, the Love Wedding Repeat actress explained that she decided to have a hysterectomy after experiencing “next-level, debilitating exhaustion” as a side effect of the estrogen-suppressing medication she was prescribed to treat her type of cancer.
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Olivia Munn Tells ‘Vogue’ About Her Hysterectomy
“I have now had a full hysterectomy. I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries,” the actress – who shares two-year-old son Malcolm with boyfriend John Mulaney –told Vogue. “Doing a full hysterectomy was a big decision to make, but it was the best decision for me because I needed to be present for my family,” she continued, in reference to how the estrogen-suppressing medication left her bedridden and unable to be there for her son and partner.
The X-Men: Apocalypse actress said she had “one real moment of panic” before the surgery, adding it was “a real breakdown.” She said: “Because it’s just so strange when you’ve been with this body your entire life, had your period for so long, feel when you’re ovulating, and all of a sudden it’s gone.”
Olivia Munn Froze Her Eggs Before The Surgery
The Buddy Games actress reportedly froze her eggs before her hysterectomy, after previously freezing them when she was 33 and 39. Talking about the egg-freezing process, Olivia said: "It's interesting because my 33-year-old eggs were great. My 39-year-old eggs? None of them worked."
She added: "As you get older, one month can have great eggs, the other not so much. Clearly, the month we did at 39 was not a good month."
"After my diagnosis, we decided to try one more round of egg retrievals and hoped it was a good month," she told the fashion bible. "John and I talked about it a lot and we don't feel like we're done growing our family, but didn't know if I would have to do chemotherapy or radiation."
Munn then confessed that she and Mulaney "started crying" when doctors told them they had two healthy embryos following the retrieval, before talking about her thoughts on having a surrogate.
"When you're pregnant with your own baby, it's like teamwork – you and the baby working together to make their little life come true," she explained, adding: "You're doing all this work to eat well, try to not have anxiety, just do all the right things during the pregnancy. With a surrogate, you have to try to go find a version of yourself somewhere out in the world. Somebody that you trust as much as yourself to live their life as a pregnant woman the same way that you would."
Munn continued: "But a surrogate isn't a scary prospect to me anymore because there's nothing I can do. I don't have the ability to carry a baby anymore, so if we want to build our family, this is our option. This journey has made me realize how grateful I am to have options for not only fighting cancer, but also having more children if we want, because I know a lot of people don't have those options."
