Olivia Munn recently underwent a hysterectomy after battling breast cancer for more than a year, she revealed in a magazine profile published over the weekend.
Mr. Mann spoke. trend The magazine published an article about the five surgeries she has undergone since being diagnosed with Luminal B breast cancer in both breasts in April 2023. Mann said her doctors decided her best bet was to prevent her body from producing estrogen.
“I just had an oophorectomy and a hysterectomy. They removed my uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries,” the 43-year-old told the magazine. “It was a big decision, but it was the best one for me because I needed to be present for my family.”
Mann has been partnered with comedian John Mulaney since 2021, and the pair have a son, Malcolm.
Mann told the magazine that although a preliminary genetic test was negative for the breast cancer gene, the test came back positive, but multiple mammograms showed no signs of breast cancer. Luminal B breast cancer is a hormone receptor-positive type of breast cancer that nourishes and grows in the presence of estrogen, said Mann's Dr. Tais Aliabadi, MD. trend.
In November, Mann's medical oncologist, Dr. Monica Mita, decided to prescribe the estrogen-blocking drug Leuprin, a typical treatment that intentionally puts Mann into menopause. But because Lupron stopped Mann's ovaries from producing hormones, it also had a huge impact on Mann's energy levels, she said.
Mann described the experience as “next level debilitating fatigue” and ended up frequently falling asleep while raising her toddler. So she asked Aliabadi about her alternatives. The surgery she underwent in April will make her unable to have children. But like she said, trendit was clear to her that it was the right thing to do.
“My friends sometimes tried to cheer me up by saying, 'Malcolm won't remember this.' Don't worry,” Mann said. “But I just kept thinking to myself, 'Let's remember this, how I missed all of this.'” It's his childhood, but it's my motherhood, it's my motherhood. You don't want to miss these parts unless you have one. ”
Mann also revealed to author Margaux Anbouba that she has frozen her eggs three times since her diagnosis: once when she was 33, once when she was 39, and recently when she was 42.
“It's interesting because my 33-year-old eggs were great. My 39-year-old eggs? None of them worked,” she said. “As you get older, some months you may have great eggs, and others you may not have as many. Obviously, the months we had at age 39 were not good months. I After my diagnosis, we decided to try another egg retrieval and hoped that this would be a good month. John and I talked about it a lot, but we knew we were done growing our family. I don't feel it, but I didn't know if I would have to undergo chemotherapy or radiation.”
She said her doctors put her on a special cancer protocol for egg retrieval, which involved lowering her hormone doses. Doctors were able to collect seven embryos, three fewer than their goal of obtaining one healthy embryo.
“I got a call from my doctor,” she recalls. “He shared that we had two healthy embryos. John and I started crying. Not only were we able to get it in one retrieval, but we were able to get it ourselves. It was very exciting because it meant I didn't have to keep putting myself at risk. It was just amazing.”
And she now has a different perspective on what happens to her family.
“Being a surrogate is no longer scary, because there is nothing I can do. I no longer have the ability to have a baby, so if we want to start a family, this is our option,” she said with equal confidence. She talked about her initial fears about finding a surrogate mother she felt could do it. she is herself. “Through this journey, I realized how grateful I am to have the option not only to fight cancer, but also to have more children if I wanted to, because I know that many people don't have that option. Because there is.”
This article has been updated to note that Dr. Monica Mita has prescribed Mann Leuprin.