Olivia Munn is currently expecting her first child with comedian John Mulaney, and it seems that their relationship and pregnancy have all been constantly reported on. In fact, it turns out that the news of her pregnancy actually leaked before she was ready to make it known!
Now, the 41-year-old actress is getting candid about the challenges that came with the untimely pregnancy reveal. In an appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, she said:
“I think what was, what was harder was when you have people talking about it and leaking it out there before I’m ready to talk about it.
You know, since, since I’ve been pregnant, I’ve had, four different girlfriends lose their pregnancies all after the safe zone, three months, two at four months and one at five, six months. And I also have an auto immune disorder and, I’m 41. And so there are a lot of elements that come into play when you’re pregnant and there’s a lot of fear and you want to like, do everything you can to, to protect your baby.”
She went on to say that she did understand the interest:
“And so that to me was like, I understand the interest. I’m always interested. I’m super interested when people are pregnant. I want to see what they’re wearing, especially now I want to see all that stuff.”
And then revealed that now, because it happened to her, it’s different and she really felt like she had no control over anything:
“But when it’s happening to you and you feel like you have no control over when you announce, or what, if something bad happens? What if I lose the baby, then it’s already been out there that I have it before I was ready to tell that information. Now I have to live with this. And then the stress of, of that just compounded everything.
So that’s, that was what was more difficult for me. And then I think because of that and because of, of, uh, my doctor’s orders to, to just take stress out of my life, because I was at a really risky place with my auto-immune disorder and the pregnancy.”
Olivia also recently opened up about how she’s not yet feeling ready for motherhood.
In a guest appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she candidly stated:
“I am hot all the time. It’s such a new experience. Things are changing with your body all the time…it’s just a lot. Every day, there’s something new that’s happening. I’m willing to take any and all advice from anyone.
People ask all the time…no, I’m not prepared. I don’t really know what to take in. I want advice from people, but there’s a lot of questions about ‘what’s your birth plan?’ My birth plan is to follow what the doctor thinks.”
