“No longer safe” Olivia Munn proudly shows off her breast cancer scars in new photos
Olivia Munn had no intention of showing the world her mastectomy scars when she signed up Skims’ latest advertising campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but she was inspired while on set for a photo shoot.
“When Skims approached me to do this campaign, it was just about their new shapewear and leggings and not about my scars at all,” she said. speak Today on Wednesday. A costume change then prompted a makeup artist to begin disguising the scars from Munn’s double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery, which was partly hers. Breast cancer treatment. Munn has an idea.
“We were in the middle of the shoot and we were changing into an outfit so we could see more of my scars, so the makeup artist touched my scars, then we went to the scars after a double mastectomy and they are really difficult to overcome. cover it up,” she said. “Then I looked in the mirror and thought, I’m no longer insecure about my scars.”
The actor revealed his diagnosis of Luminal B breast cancer in both breasts in March, Freeze her eggs and has also performed salpingectomy and oophorectomy procedures in addition to mastectomy and reconstruction.
As she said fashion magazine in May, “Dangerous cancers require aggressive treatment.”
She and her husband John Mullaney welcome them second child together, a daughter June tomorrowthrough a representative in September, making their son Malcolm a big brother.
Instead of asking a makeup artist to disguise her scars, Munn said, she asked a question.
“I said, ‘What do you think about showing my scars in this campaign?’ And they were wonderful and thoughtful and wonderful. And we discussed it and decided to do it,” she said.
“Knowing that there are so many women with scars like mine, I know that so many of them feel the same way I have felt about them for so long. And I hope that they see the Skims campaign,” Munn continued. “Skims are so iconic and is associated with beauty and sex appeal, but cancer really doesn’t have the same connotation. So I really hope that other women who have gone down a similar path to mine will feel a little better after seeing it.”
in one The Instagram post revealed Munn’s photoSkims announced that from October 23 to October 31, it will donate 10% of proceeds from bra sales to leading breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen.
