{"id":29281,"date":"2024-05-16T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/olivia-munn-tearfully-says-she-documented-cancer-journey-for-her-son-to-know-i-fought-to-be-here\/16\/05\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:05:37","slug":"olivia-munn-tearfully-says-she-documented-cancer-journey-for-her-son-to-know-i-fought-to-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/olivia-munn-tearfully-says-she-documented-cancer-journey-for-her-son-to-know-i-fought-to-be-here\/16\/05\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Munn Tearfully Says She Documented Cancer Journey for Her Son to Know &#8216;I Fought to Be Here&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/olivia-munn\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Munn<\/a><span> is emotionally opening up about her breast cancer battle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 43-year-old star sits down with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/michael-strahan\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Strahan<\/a><span> on Thursday&#8217;s episode of <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning America<\/a><\/em><span> for a raw interview about her health journey and deep desire to expand her family with partner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/john-mulaney\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">John Mulaney<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You never know what&#8217;s going on in someone&#8217;s life,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Privately, people are battling things that you&#8217;d never know.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Munn first revealed her shocking cancer diagnosis in March. As part of her ongoing treatment, Munn has already undergone a double mastectomy &#8212; just 30 days after she was first diagnosed &#8212; and was put into medically induced menopause. She has since had a hysterectomy and oophorectomy, which are procedures to surgically remove her uterus and ovaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before that, Munn underwent an egg retrieval process in the hopes of eventually having another child. She and Mulaney are already parents to a two-year-old son, Malcolm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>John Mulaney and Olivia Munn<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Stefanie Keenan\/VF24\/WireImage for Vanity Fair<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>When asked about the first thing that came to her mind when she was told she had cancer, Munn replies, &#8220;Honestly, I just thought of my baby.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also tearfully says that she made an effort to document much of her experience to pass down to her child in the event that her treatment was unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If I didn&#8217;t make it, I wanted my son when he got older to know that I fought to be here,&#8221; she admits. &#8220;That I tried my best.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Looking to the future, Munn expresses her hope for giving Malcolm a sibling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;John and I had a long talk about it,&#8221; she shares. &#8220;We realized that we weren&#8217;t done growing our family.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the process wasn&#8217;t entirely straight forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Right after the mastectomy, I went through a round of egg retrieval and that&#8217;s a scary process because I have a cancer that feeds off of hormones, so I knew that there was a risk,&#8221; she recalls. &#8220;Our doctor said, &#8216;Look, we&#8217;re gonna get one for you and then we&#8217;re gonna call it.&#8217; And then our doctor called and he said, &#8216;Hey, so we got the results back. It&#8217;s two healthy embryos.&#8217; And I, I mean, just started bawling crying. Both of us.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She adds, &#8220;We just really hope it works out for us to be able to have another baby. We just want one more. I&#8217;m not gonna ask for too much more in this life, I promise. I just want one more baby.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Olivia Munn<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Jason Armond \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Munn says she will continue her cancer treatment with a drug that will stop her body from growing the cancer producing hormones in her body. But she&#8217;s exhausted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s so tiring,&#8221; she says. &#8220;These drugs are so tiring and I know that I&#8217;m going to stay aggressive, I know I&#8217;m going to do it. &#8230; It feels nonstop because it is nonstop.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for what she&#8217;s learned about herself, Munn declares that she&#8217;s &#8220;a lot braver than I thought I was.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most importantly, her priorities have become crystal clear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The most important thing to me in life is my family,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Everything else can go away. I don&#8217;t have my career, I don&#8217;t have my body the way that it looked before, but as long as the people I love and care about are her and healthy and thriving, nothing else matters.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>ET\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/olivia-munn-shares-what-shes-looking-forward-to-most-about-motherhood-ahead-of-new-film-violet\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">spoke with Munn<\/a><span>\u00a0while she was expecting back in 2021, where she shared that she was excited to become a mom and welcome a baby into the world alongside her then-partner of less than a year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;m just excited about meeting whoever it is, and bringing a little person into this world,&#8221; Munn said at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/olivia-munn-tearfully-says-she-documented-cancer-journey-for-her-son-to-know-i-fought-to-be-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Munn is emotionally opening up about her breast cancer battle.&nbsp; The 43-year-old star sits down with Michael Strahan on Thursday&rsquo;s episode<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/olivia-munn-tearfully-says-she-documented-cancer-journey-for-her-son-to-know-i-fought-to-be-here\/16\/05\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}