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Olivia Munn is embracing honesty and openness. The actress has shared some of the main struggles she's been dealing with over the past years, including a cancer diagnosis and her role as a mother of two young kids that she shares with her partner John Mulaney.
Munn was recently one of the co-hosts of "The Today Show," taking the opportunity to open up about the challenges of parenting. Munn revealed that she was in charge of both of her kids while Mulaney was performing on Broadway.
“My 3-year-old hit his limit,” shared Munn. “It was screaming, crying and saying things to me where my feelings were getting hurt ... and then he didn’t want me to be with my daughter because the jealousy was coming in and I just broke down crying — a cry I have never cried... I was so distraught.”
In the midst of it all, she came to a realization. “I said, ‘You know what? God willing we get to work as much as we are working now forever, and god willing we’re shifting and jumping around and moving everywhere and we’re so lucky,’” revealed Munn.
The new mentality has caused her to shift her perspective. “Every time there is a breakdown or a fit or whatever, it just makes me laugh," she said.
Munn's journey with cancer
Munn opened up about her cancer diagnosis in March of last year. "Luminal B is an aggressive, fast-moving cancer. Thirty days after that biopsy, I had a double mastectomy. I went from feeling completely fine one day to waking up in a hospital bed after a 10-hour surgery the next," she shared in an Instagram post.
Earlier this year, Munn delivered a speech at Time's Women of the Year gala, where she revealed that while her cancer journey was far from over, she was choosing positivity.
"I have years to go in my cancer treatment, but on that Friday, my joints didn't ache, and I wasn't too hot or too cold from going into a surgical menopause, and my brain fog had cleared — at least for that day, anyway," she said.