Olivia Munn Offers Glimpse Into Life at Home With John Mulaney and 2 Kids After ‘Desperate' Fight To Overcome Breast Cancer
Actress Olivia Munn has candidly opened up about her 'desperate' attempt to 'stay alive' following her 2023 breast cancer diagnosis—while sharing how she and husband John Mulaney are now navigating the balance between their on-screen careers and their life at home with their two children.
The 44-year-old 'Your Friends & Neighbors' star told People that she feels an immense amount of gratitude to be 'on the other side' of luminal B, an aggressive and rare form of breast cancer that makes up just 10% of cases.
Remarkably, the Oklahoma native's bilateral cancer was only found after she underwent an MRI that highlighted a spot in her right breast—after a clear mammogram and a negative test for the BRCA cancer gene.
Describing her cancer journey, Munn—who shares two children, Malcolm, 3, and 8-month-old Mei, with Mulaney—said it feels 'crazy' to look back and see how much she had to handle 'back-to-back.'
'It's so crazy to think that I'm sitting here with two amazing babies. I'm just so happy and grateful, and I'm really proud of what I've been able to do. I didn't know how much strength I had inside me,' she told the outlet.
Before her cancer diagnosis, Munn explained that she had been 'struggling' with life as a new mother, having given birth to her son in November 2021. Going through that roller coaster journey, only to be faced with an even greater challenge was something that provided her with a new 'perspective' on her life.
'It was a whole other perspective, because I had been struggling with life in postpartum, and now I was so desperate to stay alive. From the moment I received my diagnosis, it just became a march forward,' Munn explained.
She revealed that her mind immediately went to the future of her growing family, adding that she was concerned whether she could carry another child.
'There were all these unknowns, but I knew where I wanted to go: alive on the other side, healthy, energetic, with a baby on the way,' she said.
After a lymph node dissection and a double mastectomy, Munn did an egg retrieval, hoping for 'two girl' embryos.
'It was important to do it at that moment, but it was also scary because my type of cancer feeds on hormones, and there are a lot of hormone injections with IVF,' Munn confessed.
The couple were overjoyed to learn that they had two healthy female embryos and worked on finding the perfect surrogate to help grow their family.
'The first thing I worried about was if I would be able to find somebody who would love and take care of my daughter as much as I would. We were so lucky to find someone so kind who we bonded with so much,' she told the outlet.
Their surrogate brought their daughter to them and Munn is now focusing on her health, which is a 'constant dance with my oncologist.'
However, Munn feels 'so grateful to be on the other side.'
'Everything feels easy in a way. I feel so at peace. If I can stay happy and healthy, then I just want to sail into the rest of my life,' she shared.
With that feeling of peace came a new outlook for Munn, who confessed to People that she had made a 'strong decision' to quit acting in order to focus on her health and her family.
'Nothing I had worked on in the past five or six years felt like it was worth me taking time away from my family,' she explained. 'I started thinking for the first time that maybe I need to be behind the camera, not that that's not also hard work, but putting myself in front of the camera felt a lot more vulnerable. I wanted to protect myself.'
However, she ultimately changed her mind about returning to the screen after the perfect role fell into her lap: a part in the hit Apple TV+ comedy 'Your Friends & Neighbors,' in which she appears alongside Jon Hamm.
Describing the role as the 'thing I needed to energize me,' Munn says she realized that the script for the show had come along at a time when she finally felt confident enough to put herself back out there—and trust that she could handle the 'dance' that would come from balancing her career and her family.
Currently, that dance has seen Munn jetting back and forth between New York, where she is filming the second season of the show, and California, where Mulaney is currently holding down the fort at home while his wife is away.
'It's a dance right now with our schedules. We make it work simply because we have the mindset that it's a blessing,' Munn explained.
While Munn films her latest series, Mulaney is at their Orange County abode, which is about an hour away from Los Angeles and is where he is taping his Netflix talk show, 'Everybody's Live,' with their children.
Little is known about their opulent abode, however, their main residence is believed to be the California home Munn snapped up in 2002.
Munn has previously shared snaps from their property on her Instagram, revealing that their home follows a neutral theme and boasts sweeping views of the ocean.
Their home also comes complete with multiple cozy fireplaces, beige couches, and a set of French doors that open up to a balcony.
Munn and Mulaney met at Seth Meyers' wedding in 2013, however, they only began seeing each other romantically in 2021, shortly after Mulaney exited rehab for an alcohol and cocaine addiction.
Months later, they welcomed Malcolm.
'I really had no idea what kind of a father he would be, what kind of a friend he would be to me … but the day Malcolm was born, John's whole world just lit up.
'Somebody once said to me, 'The first child will look like whichever parent needed them the most.' And Malcolm looks just like John.
'Not to be too saccharine, but looking at John looking at Malcolm, I could see all that healing happening,' the actress explained.
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