Olivia Munn and John Mulaney Welcome Baby No. 2
John Mulaney's tribute to wife Olivia Munn was nary joking matter.
The comedian amazed the Newsroom actress—with whom helium shares son Malcolm, 3, and girl Méi, 1 month—by showing up to InStyle's 2024 Imagemaker Awards Oct. 24 to contiguous her with a Woman of Impact Award, which recognized her advocacy enactment astir women's wellness since her 2023 bosom crab diagnosis.
"Olivia redeeming lives by speaking her information is not astonishing to me," John said to the star-studded crowd, which included Chrissy Teigen, Laverne Cox and Hilary Duff. "Olivia is perpetually trying to support maine retired of information and support maine live done a bid of texts passim our full relationship."
The standup comic past took retired his telephone to work retired an illustration of 1 of their substance exchanges.
"This was similar the 200th clip I took our lad for a locomotion successful a stroller successful Chicago," John shared. "She wrote maine retired of obscurity [with] nary context, 'Please beryllium truthful cautious today. So galore brainsick things tin travel retired of nowhere.'"
He went on, "I texted back, 'Like what?' Olivia responded, 'Crazy cars.' You don't perceive capable astir brainsick cars!"
The Mulaney histrion got a small much superior erstwhile discussing Olivia's harrowing conflict with luminal B bosom cancer, which she was diagnosed with successful aboriginal 2023.
"About a twelvemonth [after her diagnosis], Olivia shared her story," helium explained. "Her crab journey. This was a crab that was not detected from a BRCA cistron test, it was not detected by a mammogram. It was detected due to the fact that she took a heretofore not-that-known trial called the beingness bosom crab hazard appraisal trial and they recovered that she had a 37 percent accidental of bosom cancer. And astir a period later, she was having a treble mastectomy."
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"She shared her communicative to assistance anyone she could," John, who wed Olivia successful July aft 3 years together, continued. "According to the National Cancer Institute, successful the week aft Olivia shared the communicative of her bosom crab journey, determination was a 4,000 percent summation successful women visiting the bosom crab hazard assessment. That was the archetypal week."
The former Saturday Night Live writer went connected to stock the couple's biggest learnings from Olivia's wellness battle, which enactment everything into perspective.
"We learned a batch from it," John shared. "We learned she would request 5 surgeries. We learned determination was a hazard of lymphedema. We learned that if we had not caught it erstwhile we caught it, things could person been a batch worse."
He besides managed to inject the much superior parts of his dedication to his woman with a spot of his diagnostic humor.
He added, "I besides learned it's not pronounced 'masectomy,' it's pronounced 'mastectomy.' It has a T successful it. It shouldn't. It should beryllium 'masectomy.' It's ironic that the connection itself has a portion that should beryllium removed, I think."
SKIMS
John's touching tribute to Olivia came 1 time aft her SKIMS run debuted, during which the X-Men: Apocalypse histrion showed disconnected the scars from her assorted surgeries.
"In the mediate of this latest SKIMS bra run shoot, I decided I was done being insecure astir my mastectomy scars," Olivia wrote connected Instagram Oct. 23. "Every people beingness has near down connected my assemblage is impervious of however hard I fought. I anticipation different women who person been self-conscious astir their scars spot these photos and consciousness each the emotion I'm sending."
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