John Mulaney and Olivia Munn announced the arrival of their second child on Sunday. Munn wrote on social media that she welcomed the little girl via gestational surrogate.
“I had so many profound emotions about not being able to carry my daughter,” Munn, who announced in March she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and later revealed she underwent a hysterectomy as a part of her treatment, wrote on Instagram. “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 also announced the baby girl’s arrival on social media, writing “I love my little girl so much.” He also added, “We stole so much stuff from the hospital.”
Both parents wrote that the child, named Méi June Mulaney, was born Sept. 14, 2024, in the year of the dragon. Méi is Chinese for “plum.”
“I am so proud of my little plum, my little dragon for making the journey to be with us,” Munn wrote. “My heart has exploded.”
Mulaney and Munn previously welcomed 3-year-old Malcolm in 2021. Munn was diagnosed with cancer around two years later in 2023, and underwent chemotherapy treatment along with multiple surgeries. In May 2024, the actress spoke about her hysterectomy experience, and said she had frozen her eggs several times before the surgery. The most recent retrieval resulted in two healthy embryos.
“When you’re pregnant with your own baby, it’s like teamwork — you and the baby working together to make their little life come true,” Munn told Vogue. “You’re doing all this work to eat well, try to not have anxiety, just do all the right things during the pregnancy. With a surrogate, you have to try to go find a version of yourself somewhere out in the world. Somebody that you trust as much as yourself to live their life as a pregnant woman the same way that you would. But a surrogate isn’t a scary prospect to me anymore because there’s nothing I can do. 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.”
