Olivia Munn and John Mulaney Are ‘Still Talking’ About Whether They’ll Use Their Last Frozen Embryo: ‘Two Is a Lot’ (Exclusive)

Olivia Munn and John Mulaney are nonetheless working out in the event that they need to enlarge their complete area.

At the instant, the actress, 44, and the comic, 42, are busy with two bustling careers, two youngsters — their son Malcolm, 3, and daughter Méi, 8 months — and two canine.

“Two [kids] is a lot,” Munn tells PEOPLE on this week’s duvet tale, on newsstands Friday. “We’re still talking if we are done growing our family.”

The Your Friends & Neighbors big name says she and Mulaney nonetheless be able to pursue having some other daughter “if we want,” as they’ve one ultimate viable frozen feminine embryo from when she did IVF and an egg retrieval following her breast most cancers prognosis in April 2023. They welcomed Méi by the use of surrogate in September.

After a transparent mammogram and trying out detrimental for the BRCA most cancers gene, Munn was once recognized handiest after an MRI — which her ob-gyn ordered after figuring out she was once high-risk for breast most cancers the use of the loose on-line Tyrer-Cuzick threat overview instrument — found out a place in her proper breast.

After a lymph node dissection, a nipple lengthen process and a double mastectomy, Munn had “a window” the place she may do the egg retrieval sooner than being despatched into surgical menopause from having her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries got rid of in a hysterectomy with oophorectomy.

“It was important to do it at that moment, but it was also scary because my type of cancer feeds on hormones, and there are a lot of hormone injections with IVF,” says Munn, who later had reconstructive surgical procedure.

Munn’s physician put her on a different IVF protocol for most cancers sufferers and was once ready to retrieve seven eggs (at Munn’s age, about one in 10 eggs is wholesome). After the eggs have been fertilized, two of the embryos have been “strong enough to be tested for abnormalities and the gender,” says Munn, whose middle, along side Mulaney’s, was once set on a child girl.

“I remember I was on a walk with John, and I said, ‘I really don’t think that I’ll be okay unless we get two girl embryos. I know this puts me at risk, but I just need you to support me,'” Munn recollects. “He said, ‘Whatever you need.’”

That similar day, Munn’s physician referred to as and instructed her they’d two wholesome feminine embryos.

“That was once an indication for me the whole thing was once going to be ok,” says Munn.

Then started the method of discovering a surrogate. A chum of a pal really helpful an company, they usually gave her two profiles for doable surrogates. One of the ladies discussed she sought after to lend a hand anyone who had long past via most cancers, and after assembly together with her, Munn knew she was once the best individual to hold their daughter.

“The first thing I worried about was if I would be able to find somebody who would love and take care of my daughter as much as I would,” she says. “We were so lucky to find someone so kind who we bonded with so much.”

Still, as Munn grew a connection together with her surrogate, with whom she stays shut, she grappled with different fears. “I had a priority of ‘Will my daughter know me?’” she recollects.

After Méi’s arrival, Munn’s anxieties disappeared.

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“Méi would cry, and I was the only one who could get her to stop,” she says. “I knew she knew me, and I knew her. She’s got this stick-straight hair that I had when I was baby. I think because I wasn’t able to carry her, I really needed to see myself in her. I see myself in her so much.”

Munn — who’s lately filming season 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors in New York — describes Méi because the “squishiest, happiest baby” who loves her large brother.

“Anywhere he goes, she lights up and she follows him,” Munn says. “He’s teaching her how to talk. We have this great video of him telling her to say dada, and she says dada right back. It’s amazing. I asked if he could teach her mama, but he said no.”

Two years after her most cancers prognosis, “it’s so crazy to think that I’m sitting here with two amazing babies,” says Munn. “I’m just so happy and grateful, and I’m really proud of what I’ve been able to do. I didn’t know how much strength I had inside me.”

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