Olivia Munn reveals she felt like an expectant father while waiting for her daughter to arrive via surrogate

Olivia Munn knows that in the end it worked out exactly as it should.Although while the actress, 44, was waiting for the arrival of her second child, daughter Méi, now 8 months, via surrogate, she wasn’t sure she felt totally connected.Munn, who also shares son Malcom, 3, with husband John Mulaney told People in an interview published Saturday, that waiting for Méi to be born “was the first time I was like, ‘Oh wait, is this what it’s like to be an expectant dad?'”“A lot of times people say, ‘Oh, the dads don’t really connect with the baby until it’s right there in front of them,’ ” she explained.“The dads, they’re not carrying the baby.

I carried Malcolm, so I understood from the very genesis, like, okay, I’ve got a life in me.Your body is changing and your energy is changing and your hair is changing and everything’s changing, so it feels very real all the time.”This time around, Munn and Mulaney, 42, opted for a surrogate after the “Buddy Games” alum underwent a double mastectomy and hysterectomy following her breast cancer diagnosis.“Even though it all felt very real for me, and our surrogate and I spoke all the time and she’d send me videos, it was a little bit of, ‘Oh wait, she’s coming,'” Munn continued.

“I felt like an expectant father.”“It was important to do it at that moment, but it was also scary because my type of cancer feeds on hormones, and there are a lot of hormone injections with IVF,” the “Your Friends & Neighbors” star said about deciding to do an egg retrieval before her cancer surgeries.After the procedure, Munn shared she was able to retrieve seven eggs, with two of the embryos being “strong enough to be tested for abnormalities and the gender.”“I remember I was on a walk with John, and I said, ‘I really don’t think that I’ll be okay unless we get two girl embryos.

I know this puts me at risk, but I just need you to support me,’ ” Munn recounted.“He said, �...