Olivia mun says she Frozen her eggs in order to conceive with John meany in the future only a few weeks after disclosing that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer Olivia mun is talking about her choice to freeze her eggs in a recent interview with Vogue the 43-year-old actress from X-Men apocalypse said that she had Frozen her eggs three times at the ages of 33 49 and 42 most recently after being diagnosed with breast cancer my 33-year-old eggs we're excellent so it's intriguing my eggs aged 39 years mun told the publication none of them worked as you get older one month can have great eggs the other not so much it is evident that the month we spent at 39 was not a nice one we thought it would be a good month and decided to attempt one more round of egg retrievals after my diagnosis not sure whether I would have to do radiation or chemotherapy but John and I spoke about it a lot and we don't feel like we're done building our family the mother of two added referring to her 2-year-old son Malcolm and comedian John meany since mun's treatment included purposefully putting her body into menopause Vogue reported the actress doctors stated that treatments for breast cancer such as chemotherapy and radiation can severely limit or even eliminate a person's ability to have children M said that she had talked with melany for 41 the possibility of delaying her treatment until after her last round of egg retrieval prior to going all out and committing to aggressive therapy for her luminal B type malignancy she admitted it was risky saying that injecting oneself with the hormones required for egg extraction would cause additional cancer cells to proliferate in their early stages but she and meany had chosen to give it another go all we needed was a couple more eggs she said to Vogue one healthy egg out of 10 at my age is what we were aiming to create with this retrieval