Olivia Munn was “not afraid of death” when she was diagnosed with cancer

Olivia Munn was “not afraid of death” when she was diagnosed with cancer.
The 43-year-old actress, who has two-year-old son Malcolm with husband John Mulaney, received news that she had the disease in February 2023, but decided to keep it to herself until earlier this year as she was more afraid of what might happen to her son.
In the current issue of People, she said: “I wasn’t someone who was obsessed with death or afraid of it in any way, but having a little baby at home made everything that much more terrifying.”
Olivia’s diagnosis resulted in four surgeries, a bilateral mastectomy and a medically induced menopause, but she stressed that she had to keep the news a secret from her fans so she could fight the disease without “noise” and recover in peace.
On Instagram, she wrote: “By keeping it private for so long, I had time to fight without any outside noise.”
After her bilateral mastectomy, the former “Newsroom” star underwent reconstruction surgery and opted for “smaller” breasts than before, insisting it was “so important” for other women to be able to say exactly what they want in such circumstances.
She said: “I know a lot of women want it bigger, but (I said) make it smaller. It’s so important to say out loud what you want – and not stop. Even when the anesthesia went into my body, the last thing I said was, ‘Please make it smaller!'”
Olivia had previously explained that she had had her usual mammogram and her cancer had gone undetected until her next routine appointment, but her doctor had decided to do a simple risk assessment based on factors such as her age, medical history and the fact that she had had her first child when she was over 30.
After determining that Olivia had a nearly 40 percent chance of developing cancer in her lifetime, she underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, which confirmed the disease through further tests.
She said: “My next scheduled mammogram would not have detected my cancer until a year later – if my gynecologist, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, had not decided to calculate my breast cancer risk assessment score. The fact that she did that saved my life.”