Olivia Munn froze her eggs before starting “aggressive” breast cancer treatment and eventually had a hysterectomy.
actress told Vogue magazine After her diagnosis, she and her boyfriend John Mulaney wanted to collect “a few more” to “make one embryo.”
“John and I talked about it a lot. We don’t feel like we’re done growing our family, but we didn’t know if we were going to have to go through chemotherapy or radiation,” she wrote on Sunday. explained in an interview. The magazine noted that the treatment could put her body into a menopausal state, which could affect her future fertility.
Ms Mann, 43, said she had put treatment on hold in hopes of having a “good month” despite the risks of injecting hormones to retrieve eggs.
This risk resulted in the birth of “two healthy embryos.”
The “Newsroom” alum, who previously froze her eggs at ages 33 and 39, said she and Mulaney, 41, “started crying” when they heard the good news.
“I was so excited because not only did it mean I could get it in one go, but it also meant I didn’t have to keep putting myself at risk,” she recalled. “It was just amazing.”
Mann and the comedian welcomed son Malcolm in November 2021.
The “Predator” star was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2023, and waited until March of the following year to go public with her health concerns.
She told her Instagram followers about the ordeal in a lengthy post detailing her double mastectomy and medically induced menopause.
“I’m lucky,” Mann wrote at the time. “We had plenty of time to catch it, so we had options.”
Mulaney praised his partner on Instagram at the time, writing, “Thank you for fighting so hard to be here for us. Marc and I both respect you.”
The pair began dating in 2021 after Mulaney divorced his wife of six years, Anna Marie Tendler.
In September of the same year, it was announced that Mann was pregnant.
Tendler has split from chef Nicholas Tran, Page Six reported in February.
