Olivia Munn revealed she underwent a risky procedure so she and comedian partner John Mulaney can expand their family.
Munn, 43, who said she was diagnosed with stage 1 aggressive Luminal B breast cancer in both breasts in April 2023, opened up about the additional surgery she received following her double mastectomy last year in order to give her 2-year-old son, Malcolm, a sibling.
"John and I had a long talk about it. We realized that we weren't done growing our family," Munn told Good Morning America Thursday in her first TV interview since announcing her diagnosis, according to ABC News. "So right after the double mastectomy, I went through a round of egg retrieval and that's a scary process because I have a cancer that feeds off of hormones so I knew there was a risk."
"And our doctor said, 'Look, we're gonna get one for you and then we're gonna call it,'" she remembered. "And then our doctor called and he said, 'Hey, we got the results back. It's two healthy embryos.' And we just started bawling, crying, both of us."
It's unclear when Munn and Mulaney plan to become a family of four.
In the past year, Munn said she's undergone five surgeries, including a hysterectomy and oophorectomy – the removal of her uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes – in an effort to improve her quality of life.
She is also considering starting another treatment that could potentially prevent her body from making more cancer-causing hormones, admitting the process has been "tiring" and "feels nonstop." But she does it for Malcolm.
"... I learned that the most important thing to me in life is my family," explained Munn. "Like, everything else can go away. I don't have my career, I don't have my body the way that it looked before. But as long as the people that I love and care about are here and healthy and thriving, nothing else matters."
