Olivia Munn and John Mulaney Are 'Still Talking' About Whether They'll Use Their Last Frozen Embryo: 'Two Is a Lot' (Exclusive)

Olivia Munn and John Mulaney are still figuring retired if they want to grow their afloat house.

At nan moment, nan actress, 44, and nan comedian, 42, are engaged pinch 2 bustling careers, 2 kids — their boy Malcolm, 3, and girl Méi, 8 months — and 2 dogs.

"Two [kids] is a lot," Munn tells PEOPLE successful this week's screen story, connected newsstands Friday. "We're still talking if we are done increasing our family."

The Your Friends & Neighbors prima says she and Mulaney still person nan action to prosecute having different girl "if we want," arsenic they person 1 remaining viable stiff female embryo from erstwhile she did IVF and an ovum retrieval pursuing her bosom crab test successful April 2023. They welcomed Méi via surrogate successful September.

After a clear mammogram and testing antagonistic for nan BRCA crab gene, Munn was diagnosed only aft an MRI — which her ob-gyn ordered aft determining she was high-risk for bosom crab utilizing nan free online Tyrer-Cuzick consequence appraisal tool — discovered a spot successful her correct breast.

After a lymph node dissection, a nipple hold process and a double mastectomy, Munn had “a window” wherever she could do nan ovum retrieval earlier being sent into surgical menopause from having her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries removed successful a hysterectomy pinch oophorectomy.

“It was important to do it astatine that moment, but it was besides scary because my type of crab feeds connected hormones, and location are a batch of hormone injections pinch IVF,” says Munn, who later had reconstructive surgery.

Munn’s expert put her connected a typical IVF protocol for crab patients and was capable to retrieve 7 eggs (at Munn’s age, astir 1 successful 10 eggs is healthy). After nan eggs were fertilized, 2 of nan embryos were “strong capable to beryllium tested for abnormalities and nan gender,” says Munn, whose heart, on pinch Mulaney’s, was group connected a babe girl.

"I retrieve I was connected a locomotion pinch John, and I said, 'I really don't deliberation that I'll beryllium okay unless we get 2 woman embryos. I cognize this puts maine astatine risk, but I conscionable request you to support me,'" Munn recalls. "He said, ‘Whatever you need.’"

That aforesaid day, Munn’s expert called and told her they had 2 patient female embryos.

"That was a motion for maine everything was going to beryllium okay,” says Munn.

Then began nan process of finding a surrogate. A friend of a friend recommended an agency, and they gave her 2 profiles for imaginable surrogates. One of nan women mentioned she wanted to thief personification who had gone done cancer, and aft gathering pinch her, Munn knew she was nan correct personification to transportation their daughter.

“The first point I worried astir was if I would beryllium capable to find personification who would emotion and return attraction of my girl arsenic overmuch arsenic I would,” she says. “We were truthful fortunate to find personification truthful benignant who we bonded pinch truthful much.”

Still, arsenic Munn grew a relationship pinch her surrogate, pinch whom she remains close, she grappled pinch different fears. “I had a interest of 'Will my girl cognize me?’" she remembers.

After Méi’s arrival, Munn’s anxieties disappeared.

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“Méi would cry, and I was nan only 1 who could get her to stop,” she says. “I knew she knew me, and I knew her. She’s sewage this stick-straight hairsbreadth that I had erstwhile I was baby. I deliberation because I wasn’t capable to transportation her, I really needed to spot myself successful her. I spot myself successful her truthful much.”

Munn — who is presently filming play 2 of Your Friends & Neighbors successful New York — describes Méi arsenic nan "squishiest, happiest baby" who loves her large brother.

"Anywhere he goes, she lights up and she follows him," Munn says. "He's school her really to talk. We person this awesome video of him telling her to opportunity dada, and she says dada correct back. It's amazing. I asked if he could thatch her mama, but he said no."

Two years aft her crab diagnosis, “it’s truthful crazy to deliberation that I’m sitting present pinch 2 astonishing babies,” says Munn. “I’m conscionable truthful happy and grateful, and I’m really proud of what I’ve been capable to do. I didn’t cognize really overmuch spot I had wrong me.”

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