Olivia Munn has opened up about her unconventional journey to becoming a mother. The actor, 43, appeared on the June 4 episode of the She MD podcast with her OB-GYN, Dr Thaïs Aliabadi, who delivered Munn’s son Malcolm in November 2021. The New Girl star shares her now-two-year-old son with comedian John Mulaney .
“It was a surprise pregnancy ,” she told podcast co-hosts Dr Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney. Munn explained that she had frozen her eggs twice, once at 33 and at 39, when people weren’t as open about the process of freezing eggs. She decided to freeze her eggs after hearing about a mutual friend who wanted to have a baby, but had to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer treatment.
According to the National Cancer Institute , chemotherapy and radiation can negatively affect the ovaries, causing them to stop releasing eggs and producing estrogen. Munn described how she spoke publicly about her fertility journey on fellow actor Anna Faris’ podcast, and she instantly received praise as “one of the first people” to talk openly about freezing eggs. “As a woman, things are just unpredictable and even if things go perfectly with your health, there is a biological clock on us that does not exist for men,” Munn said.
“If I froze my eggs, that means that I don’t have to race the clock. It means that I don’t have to try to find a partner to make this happen. It means that I don’t have to make a decision on what I want to do.
It just gives me the gift of .
