Actress Olivia Munn reveals that she has faced breast cancer: “Surprisingly, I have only cried twice”

“I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I hope sharing this helps others find comfort, inspiration and support in their own journey.”

With this message, actress Olivia Munn (Oklahoma, 43 years old) announced this Wednesday, March 13, a diagnosis that she received in April 2023. She did so through her Instagram account, where the

X-Men

interpreter has accumulated almost three million followers, with a publication in which he has also shared several images of the process he is experiencing, and which has quickly been filled with messages of support.

“You are very generous in sharing your story.

I believe that by doing so you have saved lives.

Much love to you and your family,” actress Jessica Chastain, for example, also commented.

The publication, without a doubt, has surprised many who did not expect such news after seeing the interpreter posing happily with her partner on the Oscars red carpet, as well as at the

Vanity Fair after-party,

held in Los Angeles last Sunday.

In the carousel of images in her publication, the X-Men: Apocalypse

(2016) actress

includes three images in which she tells more details about her diagnosis.

''In February 2023, in an attempt to be proactive with my health, I took a genetic test to check if I had any of the 90 genes that can cause cancer.

I tested negative for all of them, including BRCA (the best known of all in breast cancer).

My sister Sara tested negative too.

We called each other and we were happy.

That same winter I also had a mammogram,” begins that longer message.

And it continues: “Two months later, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.”

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In the last 10 months, as the actress explains, she has undergone four surgeries, “so many days in bed that I can't even count” and she also says she has learned more than she could have imagined about cancer, its treatment and hormones. .

“Surprisingly, I have only cried twice.

I guess I felt like there was no time to cry.

My focus narrowed and I postponed any emotions that I felt would interfere with my ability to keep a clear mind,” she states.

All those moments that she puts into words are also shared by The Newsroom

actress

in images, in which she is seen receiving treatment in the hospital, undergoing a mammogram and one of those times when she cried with one of the doctors she has been with her these months.

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In his message he explains why until now he had not wanted to make this news public: “I kept the diagnosis, the concern and the pain private.

I needed to catch my breath and get through some of the hardest parts before sharing it.”

In his words, in which he claims to have gone through some of the most uncertain moments of his life, he also shows his gratitude for his doctor, who decided to bring him forward a routine mammogram that was scheduled for a year from now, assessing various risk factors, such as a family history of breast cancer or the fact that the actress had her first child when she was 30 (her son was born in November 2021).

That first test ended in a biopsy, which when analyzed revealed luminal B cancer in both breasts: “An aggressive cancer that progresses quickly,” as Munn describes.

A month after diagnosis, she underwent a double mastectomy.

“I went from feeling completely fine to waking up in a hospital bed after a 10-hour surgery,” she describes that moment.

But in her message she is also optimistic: “I am lucky.

We caught him with enough time for him to have options.

“I want the same for any woman who has to face this one day.”

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The actress also dedicates a few words of gratitude to the team of professionals at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Saint John's in Santa Monica who have helped her in her treatments.

And, of course, to her partner, too: “I am very grateful to John [Mulaney] for the nights he spent researching what each operation and medication meant and what side effects and recovery I could expect.

For being there before I went to every surgery and being there when he woke me up, always putting up framed photos of our little Malcolm so that he would be the first thing I saw when he opened his eyes.”

The comic actor John Mulaney, with whom she began a relationship in 2021, has not hesitated to show her support publicly after that message that took him so many months to write: “Thank you for fighting so hard to be here with us.

“Malc and I adore you.”