By the end of May 2023, she’d undergone three surgeries: A nipple delay, lymph node dissection and double mastectomy. And because she and John still had dreams of growing their family, she had an egg retrieval procedure, which she’d done twice before, the following month and created embryos.
“That’s a scary process because I have a cancer that feeds off of hormones, so I knew there was a risk,” the Your Friends & Neighbors celeb remembered on GMA. “And our doctor said, ‘Look, we’re gonna get one for you and then we’re gonna call it.’ Our doctor called and he said, ‘Hey, we got the results back: It’s two healthy embryos.’ We just started bawling crying, both of us.”
Olivia proceeded to have two more surgeries: breast reconstruction in September 2023 and a partial hysterectomy/oophorectomy to remove her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries that April after struggling with the side effects of the ovarian suppression drug Lupron.
Through it all, John was by her side.
“Olivia and I have been through a lot of things together in the past couple years,” he told Vogue in May 2024. “Just side-by-side, supporting each other through anything. And as her guy, I felt both scared and protective. Even with Malcolm in her lap and me there holding her hand, she was going to be physically fighting this disease alone.”
