Olivia Munn says she has 'years' of treatment to go in breast cancer battle
Olivia Munn is looking at the road ahead in her breast cancer journey.
The "Newsroom" actress, 44, shared that she has "years" to go in her breast cancer treatment while delivering remarks at Time's Women of the Year gala Tuesday.
Munn made the comments while sharing a story about how on a recent Friday, she had the happy realization that her daughter, Méi, was healthy and that she was also feeling well. This was noteworthy because Méi had a "lot of discomfort" for the first month of her life, Munn said.
"I realized that I had felt pretty good all day, too," she said. "I have years to go in my cancer treatment, but on that Friday, my joints didn't ache, and I wasn't too hot or too cold from going into a surgical menopause, and my brain fog had cleared — at least for that day, anyway."
Munn joked about the fact that chaos was unfolding around her while she was having this revelation, as her son was peeing off a balcony and her husband John Mulaney was picking up a dead rat from in front of the house. But "as I held my daughter," she said, "I was so grateful that I was healthy enough to see every minute of it all."
"Each day brings with it its own problems, and my hope is that you'll all be healthy enough to enjoy them," Munn closed. "So protect your health and love your body like you are a chunky newborn baby."
Munn first revealed in March 2024 that she had been privately battling breast cancer and had received four surgeries over the previous 10 months. She underwent a double mastectomy and later had a hysterectomy.
In a September Instagram video, Munn shared a timeline of her treatment. The most recent development was that in August, she began taking Arimidex, which according to the Mayo Clinic is a breast cancer treatment that "interferes with the production of estrogen in the body."
"I'm doing OK," she said in the September video.
Amid her treatment, Munn in October posed for a Skims campaign that showed her mastectomy scars. In an interview on the "Today" show at the time, the "X-Men: Apocalypse" star said this was an idea she suggested during the photoshoot.
"We were in the middle of the shoot and we were changing an outfit that could see more of my scars, and so the makeup artist was touching up my scars, and then we got to the double mastectomy scars and they were really hard to cover up," she said. "And then I was looking in the mirror and I just thought, 'I'm done being insecure about my scars.'"