{"id":97741,"date":"2024-05-16T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/olivia-munn-wants-her-son-to-know-she-fought-to-be-here-as-she-battles-cancer\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:03:55","slug":"olivia-munn-wants-her-son-to-know-she-fought-to-be-here-as-she-battles-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/olivia-munn-wants-her-son-to-know-she-fought-to-be-here-as-she-battles-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Munn wants her son to know she &#8216;fought to be here&#8217; as she battles cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-05-16\" datetime=\"1715871835\" pubdate=\"\">16 May 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/olivia-munn\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,olivia-munn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivia Munn<\/a> wants her son to know she &#8220;fought to be here&#8221; by detailing her breast cancer struggle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Olivia Munn was diagnosed with breast cancer last year<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old actress announced in March she had undergone four surgeries in under a year after being diagnosed with an &#8220;aggressive&#8221; form of the disease, and she&#8217;s now explained she has been documenting her treatment just in case she &#8220;didn&#8217;t make it&#8221; so her and partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/john-mulaney\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,john-mulaney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Mulaney<\/a>&#8216;s two-year-old son Malcolm could read her journals at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on &#8216;Good Morning America&#8217;, she said: &#8220;If I didn&#8217;t make it, I wanted my son when he got older to know that I fought to be here. That I tried my best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As part of her treatment, &#8216;The Newsroom&#8217; star underwent a double mastectomy, and was then put into a medically-induced menopause, and she also had a hysterectomy and oophorectomy \u2013 procedures to surgically remove her uterus and ovaries &#8211; which she admitted has taken a toll of her body but she&#8217;s determined to keep fighting.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s so tiring. 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. It feels non-stop because it is non-stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actress also underwent an egg retrieval process \u2013 which proved to be successful &#8211; before her surgeries in the hopes that she could give her son a sibling one day. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;John and I had a long talk about it. We realised that we weren&#8217;t done growing our family.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#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. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#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.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#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;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;X Men: Apocalypse&#8217; actress added as long as she had her loved ones&#8217; support, &#8220;everything else can go away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;The most important thing to me in life is my family. Everything else can go away.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;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;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/olivia-munn-wants-son-know-fought-battles-cancer-1399714.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 May 2024 Olivia Munn wants her son to know she &#8220;fought to be here&#8221; by detailing her breast cancer struggle. Olivia Munn was diagnosed with breast cancer last year The 43-year-old actress announced in March she had undergone four surgeries in under a year after being diagnosed with an &#8220;aggressive&#8221; form of the disease, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2331,4694],"class_list":{"0":"post-97741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-john-mulaney","9":"tag-olivia-munn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}