Olivia Munn recalls seeing her body after double mastectomy: 'It was a shock'

Hollywood actress Olvia Munn is opening up about her breast cancer diagnosis. A month after the actress announced on Instagram that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, Olivia is talking about the challenges, the tough journey she had gone through and a lot more.

The actress was diagnosed with Luminal B cancer after she decided to calculate her Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score. In an interview with People, the actress shared the heartwrenching experiences that she had in the last year.

"I was shockedseeing my body after double mastectomy"

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Recalling the day when she saw her body following a double mastectomy, Olivia said that she was in 'shock.'

“I saw myself for the first time and I was in shock. It was incredibly hard,” she says.

She added, “It was a shock. It was a shock to my system. I had such a hard time, I remember just looking in the mirror with him and just having no emotion, just taking in what he was saying.”

Following a double mastectomy, she underwent subsequent reconstructive surgery and hormone suppression therapy to lower the risk of cancer in the future. As a result of this medical process, she has been put into medically induced menopause.

"I’m constantly thinking it’s hot, my hair is thinning, and I’m tired a lot,"said the actress before saying that she's extremely grateful that she got the chance to fight back.

The Gateway star — who is mother totwo-year-old son Malcolm with comedian boyfriend John Mulaney— said when she was never afraid of death. But, recalling the time when she was diagnosed with cancer, the first thought that she had was about her son, who was one year old back then.

"I was not someone who obsessed over death or was afraid of it in any way," she said before adding, "having a little baby at home made everything much more terrifying."

"You realise cancer doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care if you have a baby or if you don't have time," she continued,"It comes at you, and you have no choice but to face it head-on."

Olivia went on to praise her boyfriend who has been with her and their son throughout the challenging time.

"It would've felt like climbing an iceberg without him," Munn told People.

"I don't think he had a moment to himself, between being an incredibly hands-on father and going to and from the hospital—taking Malcolm to the park, putting him to nap, driving to Cedars-Sinai, hanging out with me, going home, putting Malcolm to bed, coming back to me. And he did it all happily," she adds.