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Actress Olivia Munn continues to share her journey since being diagnosed with breast most cancers final 12 months.
In a brand new interview with Vogue, revealed Sunday, the “Newsroom” actress revealed that she just lately had a hysterectomy.
“I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries,” she mentioned.
Munn mentioned that the process, which occurred final month, was an alternative choice to taking a most cancers remedy remedy that was inflicting her to expertise “next-level, debilitating exhaustion.” She mentioned it was “a giant resolution to make, however it was the perfect resolution for me as a result of I wanted to be current for my household.”
The hysterectomy would improve her quality of life, however it additionally meant that she’d now not be capable of carry any future kids. Munn and comic John Mulaney welcomed their son, Malcom, in 2021.
“John and I talked about it rather a lot and we don’t really feel like we’re performed rising our household,” she mentioned.
Munn, who had beforehand frozen her eggs twice previously, mentioned she underwent one other spherical of egg retrieval earlier than shifting forward with the hysterectomy, in hopes of constructing an embryo to make use of for surrogacy. When her physician later knowledgeable the couple that they’d two wholesome embryos, she and Mulaney “simply began crying.”
“It was simply so thrilling as a result of not solely did we get it in a single retrieval, however it additionally meant that I didn’t need to maintain placing myself in danger,” she mentioned.
Munn first revealed that she was recognized with a type of breast most cancers often known as Luminal B cancer in March. The most cancers was present in each of her breasts, and Munn’s remedy included a double mastectomy.
“This journey has made me understand how grateful I’m to have choices for not solely combating most cancers,” she mentioned, “but in addition having extra kids if we would like.”