Olivia Munn stopped a post-mastectomy beauty remedy for her scars after exhibiting them off in a Skims marketing campaign final 12 months.
“Ever since I obtained such an incredible, loving response from the Skims marketing campaign, I finished doing laser remedy on my scars,” the actress, 44, informed Entry Hollywood on Monday on the Ladies’s Most cancers Analysis Fund’s 2025 An Unforgettable Night.
“I had all my appointments, and I used to be doing them, and I had all my appointments scheduled for the subsequent 12 months, and I simply canceled all of them.”
Munn mentioned she wished to concentrate on “placing it on the market and embracing” her battle with breast most cancers, which she beat.
The “Newsroom” star marveled that it wasn’t “simply the world embracing it.” Extra particularly, it was “the ladies who’ve these scars” and those that have “seen their mom going by means of this.”
She defined, “And now these scars, not less than on me, I’m pleased with them now. They’re not one thing that I wanna cowl up as a lot anymore as a result of everybody has been so candy about it.”
Munn starred within the October 2024 marketing campaign for Kim Kardashian’s shapewear and undergarment model, modeling a collection of bestsellers, together with Skims’ viral push-up bra with built-in nipples.
Within the pictures, the mom of two struck poses within the Final Nipple Bra ($64) in addition to the Final Teardrop Push-Up Bra ($60).
She additionally modeled black high-waisted leggings and lined nearly all of her naked breasts along with her arms, which highlighted certainly one of her scars from her double mastectomy and breast reconstruction.
“It’s an honor to accomplice with Skims and Susan G. Komen on this unbelievable marketing campaign. This trigger is deeply private to me, and I’m proud to assist drive consciousness and dialog round it,” Munn mentioned on the time in a press launch from Skims, which donated 10 p.c of bra gross sales between Oct. 23 and Oct. 31 to the charity.
“Skims’ dedication to empowerment and neighborhood aligns completely with the message of this marketing campaign, which is all about confidence, consolation and feeling your greatest self. That’s precisely how I felt capturing this.”
Munn, who is married to comic John Mulaney, elaborated on Instagram on the time that she was “within the center” of the photograph shoot when she “determined [she] was carried out being insecure about [her] mastectomy scars.”
“Each mark life has left behind on my physique is proof of how arduous I fought,” she penned, including, “I hope different girls who’ve been self-conscious about their scars see this photograph and really feel all of the love I’m sending.”
Munn was identified with breast most cancers in April 2023 and underwent a double mastectomy shortly after; nevertheless, she didn’t reveal the information till the next March.
Earlier than the general public was conscious of her personal well being battle, Munn admitted to feeling “burdened” about getting dressed for purple carpets and occasions as a result of she has “some divots and dents on one facet of [her] physique close to the place the lymph nodes had been,” noting that her medical doctors “needed to actually dig out” the most cancers.
Throughout a June 2024 podcast look, the “X-Males: Apocalypse” star confessed that she “cried [for] per week” after the double mastectomy, previous to receiving her everlasting implants.
Earlier than starting her “aggressive” remedy plan, which included a hysterectomy, Munn froze embryos with Mulaney, 42, with whom she shares son Malcolm, 3.
The couple welcomed daughter Méi by way of surrogate in September 2024.
