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Olivia Munn Spoke About How Emotionally Challenging Choosing Surrogacy Was

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“It wasn’t for superficial reasons or because I wanted to put my work first.”

Olivia Munn spoke about her experiences with postpartum anxiety and using a surrogate.

The actor shares two children, Malcolm (3) and Méi (six months), with her husband, John Mulaney. It’s proven to be a challenging few years, as in 2023 Olivia was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In a new interview with Self, Olivia said that she began to experience anxiety about a month after Malcolm was born. “My eyes pop open at 4 a.m. I’m gasping for air. I get the tightness in my chest, and it’s like that all day long. It felt like the end of the world,” she said. “I would have to sometimes hold John’s arm from room to room. It was physical.”

The difficulty came after Olivia had problems producing breast milk. “When you stop breastfeeding immediately, your hormones drop, and postpartum can come in like a tornado. And I didn’t clock any of that and I didn’t tell anybody about that. Then it was like I fell off a cliff, and I was just falling and falling and falling and falling. It was more difficult than going through cancer,” she said.

Due to the cancer, Olivia underwent a number of surgeries, as well as surgical menopause. “It was devastating for me not to be able to carry [Méi]. I loved carrying my son,” she said, noting that she had already done egg retrieval over the years.

Olivia and John found their surrogate through an agency, opting for a woman in Massachusetts. “First of all, she doesn’t know any celebrities,” Olivia said. “She’s an incredible mother, an incredible human being, an incredible friend, just wonderful.”

“I needed [her] to understand that I needed to go this route. It wasn’t for superficial reasons or because I wanted to put my work first. I’m not saying that any of those reasons aren’t valid for those people. And I’m not judging anyone who makes those decisions based on that, but I needed her to understand this would be hard for me,” she added. “It makes me emotional — it’s your baby, and the baby is somewhere else in the world.”

Olivia and her surrogate are still in contact. They were all in the delivery for Méi’s birth, as Olivia recalled, “The first person John hugged was the husband, he gave him a big kiss on the cheek…. It was just wonderful.”

In a follow-up video, Olivia said that her sadness over not being able to carry her child was quickly replaced with “so much love, gratitude, and hope in the world.” Olivia said of the surrogate, “She wanted to be a surrogate because she wanted to help mothers who were struggling to carry their own children. I think the most surprising part about the surrogacy journey was the sadness I felt from not being able to carry my daughter really dissipated once all of my hopes and dreams were placed into this woman.”

You can read the full interview here.

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