Manyincluding her team of doctorswould callOlivia Munn’s experience with fighting breast cancer aggressive.
She uses the word, too.
In fact, it comes up 12 times during the afternoon I spend with her in upstate New York.
Munn with her son, Malcolm. Dior top and skirt.
Aggressive cancers need aggressive treatments.
Better, finally, she says.
Its time to discuss everything thats happened to Munn in the past year.
Dior shirt, her own jeans, and Miu Miu ballet flats.
I couldn’t take any risks with Olivia’s life, she tellsVogue.
Dior shirt, her own jeans, and Miu Miu ballet flats.
Instead of leaving for a new film project, Munn went all in on treatment.
Her own coat.
You start thinking about your mortality differently after you snag a baby, Munn says.
The boys were there by her side every step of the way in Los Angeles.
Just side-by-side, supporting each other through anything.
Photographed by Tess Ayano; Styled by Kristina Koelle.
And as her guy, I felt both scared and protective.
Phase two began in November of 2023 and involved purposefully sending her body into menopause.
The side effects of the medication hit me almost immediately, she admits.
Photographed by Tess Ayano; Styled by Kristina Koelle.
It was next-level, debilitating exhaustion.
I would wake up in the morning and almost immediately need to get back into bed.
If you asked Malcolm, Where does daddy work?
He’d point to my bed.
It was so sweet.
But at the same time, it was breaking my heart because this is his image of me.
I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.
It happened just last month.
I had friends give a shot to cheer me up by saying, Malcolms not going to remember this.
I did have one real moment of panic, she reflects.
It’s interesting because my 33-year-old eggs were great.
None of them worked.
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.
Both of those treatments can dramatically affect a woman’s fertility.
Instead, Munns course of treatment involved lower doses of hormones.
We just wanted a few more eggs, she said.
from there, the hope was to get one single, healthy embryo.
A few hours later, we got the call from my doctor, she says.
He shared that we had two healthy embryos.
John and I just started crying.
It was just amazing.
When it comes to the future of their embryos, Munn is cautiously optimistic.
But a surrogate isnt a scary prospect to me anymore because theres nothing I can do.
For Munn, this time of physical healing is one for mental and emotional healing as well.
Im not there yet, Munn admits.
But Im on my way.
