Olivia Munn Battled Postpartum Anxiety for Almost a Year After Son’s Birth (Exclusive) [Video]

Breast cancer came as a shock to Olivia Munn, who had a clear mammogram just three months prior to her diagnosis. But the year before that, postpartum struggles had almost swallowed the new mom. 

“Postpartum is really difficult,” Munn tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. After welcoming her son Malcolm, now 2, with comedian John Mulaney in November 2021, “I was not prepared for the kind of postpartum that I had. I had heard about postpartum depression. I had never heard about postpartum anxiety.”

She describes her diagnosis of luminal B—a fast-moving, aggressive cancer—in both breasts, as a one-two punch at that point in her life. “On a scale of 1 to 10, I would put my postpartum anxiety at 100,” says Munn, 43.

“I went through something challenging this past year, but I don’t think it compares to what I went through postpartum.”

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