The Free Online Test That Caught Olivia Munn’s Cancer After a Clear Mammogram

When Olivia Munn appeared on Not Skinny But Not Fat with Amanda Hirsch, she had a lot to unpack: breast cancer, postpartum anxiety, and the cosmic joke of trying to “have it all” while actually surviving it all. The actress turned advocate isn’t asking for sympathy or approval—she’s sharing information that could save lives, with the kind of grit of someone who’s been through hell and kept pushing.

Olivia Munn faces an aggressive diagnosis head-on

Munn doesn’t soften the medical jargon; she rattles it off like a pro who’s memorized her opponent’s stat sheet: “I had multifocal, multi-quadrant bilateral breast cancer with an aggressive type of cancer.” In plain English: Tumors everywhere, moving fast, and zero time to waste. Instead of spiraling, she planted her feet: “I have to stay alive. I have to be here. I have to fight as hard as I can fight.”

But there were times, admittedly, that the fight got brutal—a double mastectomy, major blood loss, and five surgeries, including removal of her ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus to prevent further complications from treatment. Yet somewhere between operating rooms, Munn realized endurance matters more than sympathy.

She turns a personal scare into a PSA

Munn’s most powerful tool isn’t fame—it’s a simple URL. She credits the Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Assessment Calculator, a free online screening tool, with catching her cancer after a clear mammogram. “It takes minutes. You don’t even have to put your email in,” she says of the assessment that has since gone viral. The impact has been measurable: “An [increase] in people taking the test … and 300 percent more mammogram requests.” Her goal is straightforward—normalizing these screenings as part of routine healthcare for every woman.

But it wasn’t just an online test that helped Munn get on the road to recovery. She also had a medical game plan that was quickly deployed, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, OB-GYN extraordinaire and cohost of SHE MD. Dr. Aliabadi wasn’t just another white coat in the actress’s chart; she was the game-changer who caught what everyone else missed, and whom Munn credited as saving her life “in more ways than one.“

Motherhood and mental health: the unfiltered version

Cancer isn’t Munn’s only challenge. Postpartum anxiety hit hard after her son’s birth. “I had such horrible postpartum anxiety. Like, on a scale of one to 10, I put it at a 100,” she says. The nights were brutal: “Every day, my eyes would pop open at four, and I would just be gasping for air.”

Still, her son Malcolm kept her centered. After her mastectomy, when he wanted “Mama, up,” she’d squat down so he could perch on her leg instead of her arms. Motherhood didn’t weaken her resolve—it sharpened it. She refuses to mom-shame or be shamed as a mom: “People need to stop having opinions about how people feed their children,”  she said when Hirsch asked if she’d breast-fed or bottle-fed her son.

The comeback Munn never planned (and won’t apologize for)

During treatment, Munn was ready to step away from acting entirely. “I told my agents and managers, ‘Do not put me up for anything. I don’t wanna act anymore,’” she says. But while recovering, she found herself drawn to a role in Your Friends and Neighbors, proving you can love the craft without living for the spotlight.

The experience shifted her perspective without changing her personality. “Nothing is really that serious anymore, truly,” she says, rolling her eyes at whisper-level critics. She’s too busy raising kids, sharing life-saving links, and re-entering Hollywood on her own terms to be bothered by critics.

Olivia Munn’s current mission is making “pap smear, mammogram, MRI, repeat” feel as normal as ordering an oat-milk latte. She survived cancer, stared down postpartum anxiety, and still shows up for red carpets and playground tantrums. If that resilience irritates anyone, she’ll live—literally.

So here’s the play: Open a new tab, take the Lifetime Risk Assessment Test, and call your doctor. If Olivia Munn can squeeze it in between surgeries, parenting, and career pivots, the rest of us can manage it too. Consider this post your permission slip to prioritize your health and ignore the haters, because Munn already does.