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Olivia Munn is the most recent star to mannequin for shapewear model Skims, and within the marketing campaign photographs the actor reveals her mastectomy scars as she continues her combat in opposition to breast most cancers.
Within the pictures, taken by artist Vanessa Beecroft, Munn fashions merchandise by the Kim Kardashian-founded lingerie and shapewear model, together with a head-turning nipple phantasm bra. Launched within the last week of Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month as a partnership with the Susan G. Komen group, the marketing campaign encourages girls to pursue early screenings, in response to a press launch. Munn has advocated for folks to calculate their breast cancer risk score, which helped result in her prognosis early final yr.
“This trigger is deeply private to me, and I’m proud to assist drive consciousness and dialog round it,” Munn mentioned within the launch. “SKIMS’ dedication to empowerment and neighborhood aligns completely with the message of this marketing campaign, which is all about confidence, consolation, and feeling your finest self. That’s precisely how I felt taking pictures this.”
Final month, Munn shared a timeline of her breast most cancers journey on social media, which has included a number of mammograms, ultrasounds and a genetic check in 2022 and early 2023. All of these screenings got here again detrimental. However in March, her doctor screened her utilizing the Tyrer-Cuzick Threat Evaluation Calculator and located Munn’s lifetime danger was 37.3%, greater than triple the chance of the final inhabitants. This led her to pursue extra testing together with an MRI and biopsies. She was identified with bilateral breast most cancers in April 2024, and has since undergone a double mastectomy and reconstruction together with different therapies.
Munn additionally had surgical procedure for a partial hysterectomy this previous April, she famous, a number of months after present process egg retrieval. She and her husband, the comic John Mulaney, welcomed their second youngster by way of a surrogate in September.
In a podcast episode with the Susan G. Komen group, Munn spoke extra on the significance of her marketing campaign with Skims. “When folks consider SKIMS, they consider magnificence and sexiness, and with breast most cancers, I feel that it’s not all the time the very first thing that folks take into consideration, possibly like not even within the high hundred.”
She revealed she had initially needed to cowl a few of her scars for the venture, however skilled a second in between photographs that modified her thoughts. “After my first shot with this one black bodysuit, we had been altering and we had been touching up my scars with my make-up artist. After which it simply hit me after she touched up one scar that’s positioned in a means that I haven’t actually discovered to like but,” she recalled.
“However I used to be my mastectomy scars and I used to be interested by the primary time I noticed them and the way stunning it was for me. And I assumed, you understand what? I do take a look at these scars as proof of how laborious I fought. And I feel I wish to not solely embrace the scars proper now however present different girls who’ve these identical scars that there’s nothing to really feel unhealthy about.”
Munn joins celebrities together with Sabrina Carpenter, Megan Fox, Heidi Klum, Cardi B and Lana Del Ray, who’ve all modeled for Kardashian’s model. Skims has a historical past of supporting social causes, and has beforehand made donations to households affected by COVID-19 in addition to to Ukraine aid efforts. The model additionally lately landed high-profile partnerships with the WNBA and NBA, and labored with Group USA on the summer time Olympics in Paris.
By the top of the month, Skims says it is going to donate a portion of its bra gross sales to Susan G. Komen in help of breast most cancers analysis and consciousness.