By the tip of Might 2023, she’d undergone three surgical procedures: A nipple delay, lymph node dissection and double mastectomy. And since she and John nonetheless had goals of rising their household, she had an egg retrieval process, which she’d accomplished twice earlier than, the next month and created embryos.
“That’s a scary course of as a result of I’ve a most cancers that feeds off of hormones, so I knew there was a danger,” the Your Buddies & Neighbors celeb remembered on GMA. “And our physician stated, ‘Look, we’re gonna get one for you after which we’re gonna name it.’ Our physician known as and he stated, ‘Hey, we bought the outcomes again: It’s two wholesome embryos.’ We simply began bawling crying, each of us.”
Olivia proceeded to have two extra surgical procedures: breast reconstruction in September 2023 and a partial hysterectomy/oophorectomy to take away her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries that April after scuffling with the negative effects of the ovarian suppression drug Lupron.
By way of all of it, John was by her aspect.
“Olivia and I’ve been by means of plenty of issues collectively previously couple years,” he instructed Vogue in Might 2024. “Simply side-by-side, supporting one another by means of something. And as her man, I felt each scared and protecting. Even with Malcolm in her lap and me there holding her hand, she was going to be bodily combating this illness alone.”









