Olivia Munn and John Mulaney welcomed a second child together last week, daughter Méi June Mulaney, Munn shared via Instagram Sunday. The couple, who quietly tied the knot in July, are also parents to 2-year-old son Malcolm.
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“I am so proud of my little plum, my little dragon, for making the journey to be with us,” she wrote.
Munn shared on Instagram that Méi, whose name means “plum” in Chinese and was born September 14, was carried by a surrogate, whom Munn called “a real-life angel.” Munn has undergone several surgeries as part of what she characterized as “aggressive” treatment for breast cancer, including a double mastectomy and related reconstructive surgeries, an oophorectomy and hysterectomy, and more. The surgeries meant removing Munn’s ovaries, uterus, and fallopian tubes to prevent her body from creating estrogen, which her type of breast cancer responds to. In the same June Vogue interview detailing her treatment, Munn said that she had also frozen her eggs because she and Mulaney “don’t feel like we’re done growing our family.”
She said that prior to any chemotherapy, radiation, or the surgeries, she’d undergone egg retrieval that resulted in two healthy embryos. She knew that though she wouldn’t be physically able to carry her own pregnancy, she and Mulaney had options.
“A surrogate isn’t a scary prospect to me anymore because there’s nothing I can do,” she said. “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.”
Munn thanked her daughter’s gestational carrier profusely in the post announcing the baby’s arrival.
“I had so many profound emotions about not being able to carry my daughter,” she wrote. “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.”
Mulaney, who is slated to return to the Broadway stage this winter in All In: Comedy About Love, spoke with David Letterman in April, telling the fellow comedian that Munn’s pregnancy with son Malcolm was “a big surprise,” but that fatherhood had changed his life.
“It wasn’t so much that I thought I wouldn’t [have a child] as. . . it was never a good day to have [a kid],” Mulaney said. “I just wasn’t thinking about it. I was just. . . kind of living one minute to the next. And then this guy came along. I was starstruck when I met him. I went, ‘Oh, there you are.’ I was looking in not good places and then, ‘Oh, there you are.’ That was my first thought.”
