Olivia Munn on her ‘devastation’ after breast reconstruction surgery

Olivia Munn is speaking out about the “devastation” she felt following her breast reconstruction surgery after having to undergo a double mastectomy following her breast cancer diagnosis.

The actress stopped at ELLE MD Podcastwhere she spoke with her obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, and women’s rights advocate and influencer, Mary Alice Haney, about what she was worried about when she underwent her breast reconstruction surgery.

“I didn’t want to have big breasts. I didn’t want them to look like a boob job. [The surgeon] was just very clear, like, ‘It’s going to look like this,'” she said. “All I care about is that I’m alive and I’m here for my baby. But putting that aside, I figure one day people will forget or not know, or maybe I’ll never tell people I had cancer, but they’ll look at me and say, “Oh, what kind of cancer.” bad boob job.’

The actress explained that she was worried that people would talk behind her back about the roundness or hardness of her breasts, without knowing that she had had them done because of her cancer.

“I just thought, ‘Oh, I’m losing my boobs.’ I’m entering a world and a society where I don’t know how people are going to treat me, how I’m going to react to them,” Munn continued. “It was like all of those things at once. It wasn’t even the cancer because I was like, “Okay, that’s the plan. Take out the cancer aggressively.

Following the operation, The press room The actress admitted she cried the first time she saw her new boobs, even though her doctor thought the results were “fantastic.”

“I was alone in my bathroom and I looked at them and I cried in a way that I don’t think I’ve ever cried in my life,” Munn said. “I was devastated. I didn’t recognize myself. I didn’t know how I would dress again. I thought, ‘Oh, there are so many styles, there are so many things I won’t be able to never wear.” It was like someone had taken my breasts off and then taken them. [some tape and paper] and stuff and Tupperware, and they say, “Here. »

She revealed that she felt “a lot better” about the results after a while, but was still a little self-conscious about the appearance of her breasts. So she let her hair grow out in order to hide the scars a little.

“Maybe one day I’ll be more comfortable with it,” Munn said. “I don’t look the same, but that’s okay. I am here.”