Olivia Munn Freezes Eggs Again After Cancer Diagnosis

Actress Olivia Munn discussed how she froze her eggs for the third time following a cancer diagnosis.

The 43-year-old “X-Men: Apocalypse” star has been in a relationship with comedian John Mulaney since 2021 and shares a son with him. Munn revealed in March that she had been diagnosed with “aggressive, fast moving” breast cancer last year and had undergone four surgeries including a double mastectomy.

The actress said during an interview with Vogue that she had her eggs frozen for the third time in hopes of having more children despite having a full hysterectomy. She previously had the procedure at 33, 39, and again, most recently, at 42.

“It’s interesting because my 33-year-old eggs were great. My 39-year-old eggs? None of them worked,” Munn told the outlet. “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,” she added. “After my diagnosis, we decided to try one more round of egg retrievals and hoped it was a good month. John and I talked about it a lot and we don’t feel like we’re done growing our family, but didn’t know if I would have to do chemotherapy or radiation.”

“We just wanted a few more eggs,” Munn said during the Vogue interview. “At my age, one in every 10 eggs are healthy, and we were hoping to make one embryo from this retrieval.”

“A few hours later, we got the call from my doctor. He shared that we had two healthy embryos,” she continued. “John and I just started crying. It was just so exciting because not only did we get it in one retrieval, but it also meant that I didn’t have to keep putting myself at risk. It was just amazing.”

Because she had a hysterectomy, Munn also discussed how she would need to use a surrogate gestational carrier to have any more biological children.

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“When you’re pregnant with your own baby, it’s like teamwork—you and the baby working together to make their little life come true,” she told Vogue.

“You’re doing all this work to eat well, try to not have anxiety, just do all the right things during the pregnancy. With a surrogate, you have to try to go find a version of yourself somewhere out in the world. Somebody that you trust as much as yourself to live their life as a pregnant woman the same way that you would. But a surrogate isn’t a scary prospect to me anymore because there’s nothing I can do.”

Munn added, “I don’t have the ability to carry a baby anymore, so if we want to build our family, this is our option. This journey has made me realize how grateful I am to have options for not only fighting cancer, but also having more children if we want, because I know a lot of people don’t have those options.”

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