Olivia Munn is opening up her being pregnant — albeit very fastidiously.
The actor and former “The Daily Show” correspondent appeared on Tuesday’s episode of the “She MD” podcast with OB-GYN Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, who delivered Munn’s son, Malcolm, in 2021, and later recognized Munn with breast most cancers in 2023.
Throughout their dialog, Munn opened up about having a toddler at age 41 along with her boyfriend, John Mulaney, across the similar time the comic was splitting from his spouse of six years, Anna Marie Tendler.
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“It was a surprise pregnancy. I did not have any doctor team ready. I had no idea,” the “The Newsroom” star advised Aliabadi practically two minutes into the episode.
Munn then credited Aliabad for being an “amazing” physician.
“It was the most amazing birth. The labor and delivery was a dream,” Munn stated, earlier than including that Aliabad additionally prolonged numerous empathy towards her throughout an advanced interval in her life.
“It was, surprisingly [an easy pregnancy], but in different ways it was difficult. Honestly, [Aliabadi] held my hand through the whole thing. … She really guided me along the way, not just with what was going on physically, but emotionally as well.”
Munn went on to clarify that she “wasn’t” actually interested by having kids on the time she acquired pregnant. She stated because of getting her eggs frozen on the ages of 33 and 39, she didn’t really feel a lot anxiousness about her “biological clock.”
“If I froze my eggs that means that I don’t have to race the clock,” Munn stated about her reasoning for present process the usually expensive process that’s usually not coated by insurance coverage. “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, and it just gives me the gift of time. It allows me to just breathe.”
When Munn was requested if she used any of her frozen eggs to conceive her son, she stated she hadn’t.
“[That was an] accident,” Aliabad stated jokingly.
“That was a blessing,” Munn clarified.
Though Aliabad helped Munn, the “X-Men” alum additionally admitted she was a little bit of a multitude throughout her being pregnant.
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“I looked nothing like what I see people look like when they’re pregnant. I had a six-day window where it looked cute,” Munn stated. “I was wearing the same sweatpants and the same flannel shirt everywhere because I just couldn’t get it together.”
She stated she couldn’t assist however evaluate herself to different pregnant girls.
“I had friends who were pregnant at the same time or had their babies after me, and yet they snapped back like that. Or their pregnancy outfits were so cute. Or they already had their nurseries done. [My] nursery wasn’t done until days before, I mean days before. … I’m sure it’s an illusion, but I don’t even have the energy to make it.”
She additionally opened up about a few of her being pregnant impulses.
“I put on 60 pounds — that’s when I stopped counting. I stayed inside a lot during my pregnancy, and I was really craving pizza and Lucky Charms. My body did not snap back afterwards, I did not lose the weight. Right now I’m doing a lot of laser treatments on my stomach,” Mun stated, including that the higher a part of her abdomen seems to be like a “deflated balloon.”
However Munn stated that regardless of the modifications to her physique, she’d do all of it once more for her son.
“I’d give my whole body up, I don’t care,” Munn stated. “If someone said to me, ‘You’re going to look completely different than you ever lived in your life, if you’re going to have this baby boy.’ I’d say, ‘OK,’ in a heartbeat. No problem.”
Though Munn and Mulaney have solely been relationship for a number of years, Munn advised Huffpost in 2015 that she was an enormous fan of the previous “Saturday Night Live” author and recounted a time she bumped into Mulaney with Tendler at a marriage.
“We were at a wedding together, and I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, do you and your fiancé want to go have dinner or something and go hang out?’” she stated on the time.
Munnn’s fangirling didn’t finish there.
“At first it was cool, and then I kept going up to him at the wedding like, ‘So you having fun?’”
She continued: “I was just so obsessed with hanging out with and talking with him.”
You possibly can hearken to Munn’s interview in full right here — which incorporates how she and Aliabadi found that she had breast most cancers regardless of receiving damaging mammograms.
