Olivia Munn is opening up in regards to the “devastation” she felt following her breast reconstruction surgical procedure after she needed to have a double mastectomy because of her breast most cancers analysis.
The actress stopped by the SHE MD Podcast, the place she spoke along with her OBGYN, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, and ladies’s advocate and influencer, Mary Alice Haney, about what she was frightened about when she had her breast reconstruction surgical procedure.
“I didn’t need to have large breasts. I didn’t need them to appear like a boob job. [The surgeon] was simply very clear, like, ‘It’s going to appear like that,’” she mentioned. “All I care about is that I’m alive, and I’m right here for my child. However placing that to the facet, I’m like, at some point, folks will overlook or not know, or possibly I’ll by no means inform people who I had most cancers, however they’ll have a look at me and go, ‘Oh, what a nasty boob job.’”
The actress defined that she was frightened that folks would discuss behind her again about how her breasts are overly spherical or onerous, with out understanding that she had them redone due to her most cancers.
“I used to be simply considering like, ‘Oh, I’m dropping my breasts. I’m going right into a world and society the place I don’t understand how persons are going to deal with me, how I’m going to react to it,’” Munn continued. “It was similar to all of that directly. It wasn’t even the most cancers as a result of I used to be like, ‘OK, that is the plan. Get the most cancers out aggressively.’”
Following the surgical procedure, The Newsroom actress admitted she cried the primary time she noticed her new breasts, regardless of her physician considering the outcomes have been “incredible.”
“I used to be on my own in my toilet, and I checked out them, and I cried in a method that I don’t suppose I’ve ever cried in my life,” Munn mentioned. “I used to be devastated. I didn’t acknowledge myself. I didn’t understand how I might ever gown myself once more. I believed, ‘Oh, there are such a lot of kinds, there are such a lot of issues that I’ll by no means be capable of put on.’ It simply appeared like somebody took off my breasts after which took [some tape and paper] and stuff and Tupperware, and so they’re like, ‘Right here.’”
She revealed that she feels “significantly better” in regards to the outcomes after a while glided by, however she nonetheless will get slightly self-conscious in regards to the look of her breasts. So, she grew her hair out as a way to disguise the scars a bit.
“Perhaps at some point I’ll get extra snug with it,” Munn mentioned. “I don’t look the identical, however that’s OK. I’m right here.”