Actress Olivia Munn says postpartum phase with son Malcolm is “more difficult than fighting cancer”

Olivia Munn becomes candid about the reality of postpartum life.

The 44-year-old actress opened the door to the arrival of her daughter, who arrived and fought for breast cancer in a new interview.

Over a ten-month period, Munn underwent five surgeries while underwent cancer treatment. But, before the diagnosis, she was working hard to be healthy

Mung said her postpartum anxiety began with her son Malcolm in November 2021, now three.

“My eyes opened at 4 a.m. and I gasped. My chest was tight, like it was all day,” Munn told Self. “Like when you watch a horror movie (which is the worst, most horror horror movie you can think of), that’s how my body feels.”

She continued: “I sometimes have to hold John’s arm in a room. It’s physically, as if I had a sprained knee.”

Your friend and neighbor star recalled her feeling like “falling off a cliff” without telling anyone. “It’s much harder than experiencing cancer,” she said.

Meng En believes that she cannot produce breast milk, which stimulates this anxiety.

“When you stop breastfeeding immediately, your hormones fall out and you can come in like a tornado after giving birth. I don’t have any bells, I don’t tell anyone,” she said.

Then there is the 2023 breast cancer diagnosis, which Meng En shared publicly in March 2024. Her treatment involves double mastectomy, partial hysterectomy and oophorectomy. As she described it as a “radical” approach to self puts her into surgical sprint. She is still taking drugs that inhibit estrogen and other hormones to stop or slow down cancer cells.

“I felt like I had a hand on the door, a monster trying to break in, and I was there holding it…. It would explode in just about any second.” Eventually, Meng En talked to her husband, John Mulaney, and asked for help. “We tried two other drugs, and now we are using one that is working,” Mung said.

After the diagnosis, Munn discovered an attorney carrying his daughter Méi, now 6 months old.

“For me, it’s devastating [Méi]. I love to carry my son,” Mungeon said. It excites me, it’s your baby, the baby elsewhere in the world,” she said of surrogacy.