John Mulaney and Olivia Munn Courtesy of Olivia Munn/Instagram
Olivia Munn and John Mulaney welcomed their second child by way of surrogate following her battle with breast most cancers.
“Méi June Mulaney got here into the world September 14, 2024, the 12 months of the dragon🐉,” Munn, 44, wrote by way of Instagram on Sunday, September 22. “I had so many profound feelings about not having the ability to carry my daughter. Once I first met our gestational surrogate we spoke mom to mom. She confirmed me a lot grace and understanding, I knew I had discovered a real-life angel. Phrases can’t categorical my gratitude that she saved our child protected for 9 months and made our desires come true.”
She continued, “I’m so pleased with my little plum, my little dragon for making the journey to be with us. My coronary heart has exploded. Méi (pronounced might) means plum in Chinese language 梅💜.”
The actress and the comic have been relationship since 2021 and welcomed son Malcolm in November of that 12 months.
John Mulaney and Olivia Munn kicked their romance into excessive gear after his break up from his spouse of six years, Anna Marie Tendler, in Could 2021. As information broke that Mulaney and Tendler had known as it quits, Us Weekly confirmed that the comic had moved on with Munn. Mulaney and Munn had been photographed on a […]
Munn revealed in March 2024 that she had been recognized with breast most cancers in 2023. She underwent 5 surgical procedures all through the course of her therapy, together with a double mastectomy and a full hysterectomy.
“I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries,” she instructed Vogue in Could 2024. “Doing a full hysterectomy was a giant determination to make, nevertheless it was the perfect determination for me as a result of I wanted to be current for my household.”
Munn’s docs suggested her to eradicate hormones from her physique to keep away from a recurrence of most cancers, giving her the choices of continuous a medicine that would go away her bedridden or surgically eradicating the organs.
“I did have one actual second of panic,” she recalled. “An actual breakdown. As a result of it’s simply so unusual while you’ve been with this physique your whole life, had your interval for thus lengthy, really feel while you’re ovulating, and impulsively it’s gone.”
Olivia Munn Courtesy of Olivia Munn/Instagram
Previous to the operation, Munn froze her eggs, which she had beforehand achieved at ages 33 and 39.
“It’s fascinating as a result of my 33-year-old eggs had been nice. My 39-year-old eggs? None of them labored,” she defined. “As you become older, one month can have nice eggs, the opposite not a lot. Clearly, the month we did at 39 was not a very good month.”
Olivia Munn initially selected to maintain her breast most cancers analysis non-public, however she’s shared loads of highly effective particulars since coming ahead along with her journey. “In February of 2023, in an effort to be proactive about my well being, I took a genetic take a look at that checks you for 90 totally different most cancers genes,” Munn wrote by way of Instagram in […]
Though filling her physique with hormones wanted for egg retrieval and laying aside therapy was dangerous, she and Mulaney selected to maneuver ahead with the method. “After my analysis, we determined to strive yet another spherical of egg retrievals and hoped it was a very good month. John and I talked about it so much, and we don’t really feel like we’re achieved rising our household however didn’t know if I must do chemotherapy or radiation,” she mentioned.
“We simply needed just a few extra eggs,” she added. “At my age, one in each 10 eggs are wholesome, and we had been hoping to make one embryo from this retrieval.”
Munn’s docs had been in a position to gather seven eggs, from which two embryos had been created.
“Just a few hours later, we acquired the decision from my physician. He shared that we had two wholesome embryos,” she recounted. “John and I simply began crying. It was simply so thrilling as a result of not solely did we get it in a single retrieval, nevertheless it additionally meant that I didn’t need to preserve placing myself in danger. It was simply wonderful.”