- Olivia Munn revealed in March that she had been recognized with bilateral breast most cancers and had undergone a double mastectomy
- The actress stated she cried after seeing the outcomes of her breast reconstruction surgical procedure as a result of she “didn’t acknowledge” herself
- Munn stated she’s engaged on feeling extra comfy together with her new look
Olivia Munn admitted that she was “devastated” over the outcomes of her breast reconstruction surgical procedure.
In the course of the June 4 episode of the well being and wellness podcast, SheMD with Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney, the 43-year-old actress opened up about present process a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction after being recognized with breast most cancers.
Munn defined that she initially felt uneasy in regards to the reconstruction after her physician stated that since she misplaced a lot breast tissue throughout her double mastectomy, she wanted “a bigger implant simply to fill the pores and skin.”
“I did not wish to have large breasts. I did not need them to seem like a boob job. [The surgeon] was simply very clear, [and told me,] ‘It is going to seem like that,'” she recalled. “All I care about is that I am alive and I am right here for my child. However placing that to the facet, I am like, at some point individuals will overlook or not know that I had most cancers, however they’re going to have a look at me and go, ‘Oh, what a foul boob job.'”
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Regardless of her physician’s evaluation that the outcomes of the surgical procedure have been “improbable,” Munn stated she simply cried the primary time she noticed her breasts, noting that she needed a “small and stylish” look together with her implants.
“I used to be on my own in my lavatory, and I checked out them and I cried in a manner that I do not suppose I’ve ever cried in my life,” she stated. “I used to be devastated. I did not acknowledge myself. I did not know the way I’d ever costume myself once more. I assumed, ‘Oh, there are such a lot of types, so many issues that I will by no means have the ability to put on.’ It simply seemed like somebody took off my breasts after which took some tape and paper and stuff and Tupperware, they usually’re like, ‘Right here.'”
Though she felt “a lot better” in regards to the outcomes as time went on, Munn admitted on the present that she’s nonetheless self acutely aware about how her breasts look, which is “a giant cause” why she grew her hair out.
“I needed to have the ability to cover the scars,” the star stated. “I need to have the ability to cover the edges of the implant and really feel comfy like that.”
“Perhaps at some point I will get extra comfy with it,” she added. “I don’t look the identical, however that’s okay. I’m right here.”
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Munn first revealed her breast most cancers prognosis in March 2024.
The prognosis got here as a shock to the actress as a result of her annual mammogram simply three months prior had come again clear, and Munn had just lately examined destructive for the BRCA most cancers gene. “I used to be strolling round considering that I had no breast most cancers,” she advised PEOPLE on the time. “I did all of the checks that I knew about.”
Inside 30 days, Munn underwent a lymph node dissection, a nipple delay process (a surgical process which spares the nipples) and a double mastectomy, adopted by reconstructive surgical procedure final fall.
Munn’s lifesaving prognosis was on account of her ob-gyn’s determination to calculate her lifetime breast most cancers threat rating throughout a routine Pap smear utilizing a free on-line software known as a Tyrer-Cuzick risk assessment calculator. Inside minutes, Munn’s outcomes got here again displaying she was at excessive threat for breast most cancers, prompting her physician to order a MRI.
Immediately Munn is decided to boost consciousness for different girls in danger, crediting her ob-gyn’s determination to calculate her lifetime most cancers threat because the one which saved her life. “If it wasn’t for Dr. Aliabadi, I’d nonetheless be going by way of life not figuring out that I had breast most cancers,” she advised PEOPLE.
