Olivia Munn and John Mulaney have welcomed a second child, a daughter born via surrogate.
The couple announced the arrival of Méi June Mulaney on their Instagram accounts on Sunday with photos of the newborn.
‘Méi June Mulaney came into the world September 14, 2024, the year of the dragon,’ Olivia, 44, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, captioned the post.
‘I had so many profound emotions about not being able to carry my daughter. When I first met our gestational surrogate we spoke mother to mother. She showed me so much grace and understanding, I knew I had found a real-life angel. Words cannot express my gratitude that she kept our baby safe for 9 months and made our dreams come true.
‘I am so proud of my little plum, my little dragon for making the journey to be with us. My heart has exploded. Méi (pronounced may) means plum in Chinese.’
Olivia Munn and John Mulaney have welcomed a second child, a daughter born via surrogate
The couple announced the arrival of Méi June Mulaney on their Instagram accounts on Sunday with photos of the newborn
The Newsroom vet shared a precious snap of her with her baby girl in her arms
Mulaney, 42, announced her arrival with his own post, sharing the same images along with an adorable video of him burping the newborn as she lay against his shoulder.
‘Méi June Mulaney came into the world September 14, 2024, the year of the dragon,’ he captioned the post.
‘We stole so much stuff from the hospital. I love my little girl so much.
‘Méi (pronounced may) means plum in Chinese.’
The couple are now parents of two – in addition to baby Méi, they also share two-year-old son Malcolm.
The sweet photos they shared also included a snap of Malcolm, wearing a rocket outfit, as his mother doted on him. His father held Méi as he enjoyed their waterfront views.
Olivia and John began dating in 2021 before tying the knot over the summer in an intimate ceremony.
The former Newsroom star revealed in March of this year that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2023, and since then she has undergone four surgeries – including a double mastectomy and hysterectomy – with the treatment putting her into medically induced menopause.
The sweet photos they shared also included a snap of Malcolm, wearing a rocket outfit, as his mother doted on him. His father held Méi as he enjoyed their waterfront views.
John’s post included an adorable video of him burping the newborn as she lay against his shoulder
She previously revealed she had frozen her eggs and undergone egg retrieval in the hopes of expanding her family with John.
In an exclusive interview with Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan, the X-Men: Apocalypse actress confirmed that she made the decision to go through a round of egg retrieval because she and John ‘weren’t done growing our family.’
‘John and I talked about it. Right after the double mastectomy I went through a round of egg retrieval. That’s scary because I have a cancer that feeds off of hormones so I knew there was a risk,’ Olivia explained to Michael, whose daughter Isabella was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in October 2023.
‘Our doctor said, “look, we’re going to get one for you and then we’re going to call it”. Then the doctor called and he said, “hey, we got the results back, it’s two healthy embryos”. We just started bawling crying, both of us.
Olivia revealed in March of this year that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2023, and since then she has undergone four surgeries – including a double mastectomy – with the treatment putting her into medically induced menopause
‘I really just hope it works out for us to have another baby. We just want one more. I’m not going to ask for too much more in this life, I promise. I just want one more baby,’ Olivia said.
Referring to the treatment, the mother-of-one continued: ‘The hormone suppression therapy is brutal. It gave me next level debilitating exhaustion, I was in bed all day long, all day long. My quality of life was so minimal. I wasn’t able to be there for my baby.’
When Michael asked if Malcolm had ‘noticed a change’ in his mother, Olivia replied: ‘Yeah. I mean, whenever Malcolm would come home, he would run to my bed because that’s where he knows I am.
‘That’s what he associated with me, that was just too difficult for me to take. I had to find out if there was another option so I opted to do the hysterectomy with the ovariectomy. Almost immediately after that my energy just came back full force,’ she added.
Munn previously said she intended to use a surrogate for her second child during an interview with Vogue where she revealed she had undergone a hysterectomy.
‘When you’re pregnant with your own baby, it’s like teamwork—you and the baby working together to make their little life come true,’ she said.
‘You’re doing all this work to eat well, try to not have anxiety, just do all the right things during the pregnancy. With a surrogate, you have to try to go find a version of yourself somewhere out in the world.
‘Somebody that you trust as much as yourself to live their life as a pregnant woman the same way that you would. But a surrogate isn’t a scary prospect to me anymore because there’s nothing I can do.
‘I don’t have the ability to carry a baby anymore, so if we want to build our family, this is our option. This journey has made me realize how grateful I am to have options for not only fighting cancer, but also having more children if we want, because I know a lot of people don’t have those options.’
