Los Angeles, May 13 (IANS) Actress Olivia Munn shared that she underwent a full hysterectomy in April amid her battle with breast cancer.

“I have now had an oophorectomy and a hysterectomy. I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries,” Munn told Vogue, reports pagesix.com.

The actress tagged it as the life-altering decision “the best”.

“It was a big decision to make, but it was the best decision for me because I needed to be present for my family,” the 43-year-old said.

Munn shared, “I had friends try to cheer me up by saying, ‘Malcolm’s not going to remember this. Don’t worry.’ But I just kept thinking to myself, ‘I’m going to remember this, that I missed all these things.’ It’s his childhood, but it’s my motherhood, and I don’t want to miss any of these parts if I don’t have to.”

This would mark the actress’ fifth surgery in her cancer journey, as she previously underwent a full double mastectomy, a lymph node dissection, reconstructive surgery, and a nipple delay.

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Los Angeles, May 13 (IANS) Actor Jim Parsons, known for his portrayal of the affable and geeky Sheldon Cooper in the sitcom ‘The Big Bang Theory’, said that playing the character once again in the spin-off series ‘Young Sheldon’ was like a gift for him.

The actor will be seen reprising the character one final time for the finale of ‘Young Sheldon’ on May 16.

Speaking with people.com ahead of the 2024 Tony Awards, Parsons said reprising the role, particularly alongside former co-star Mayim Bialik, was “really special, actually.”

Parsons was at peace with his off-screen-only role in the ‘Big Bang Theory’ spinoff, but the way the finale was written changed his mind entirely, he said.

“I felt a slight hesitancy when they first asked, just as I thought, I don’t really want to go revisit the character. But the way that they wrote it in was I thought so beautiful that it ended up being like this little extra coda or whatever to my experience with the character,” he told people.com.

“It was this gift of a second layer of losing it out in a way that I had never seen coming, and it was a real treat.”

When asked if he had any advice for 15-year-old Iain Armitage, who has portrayed the younger Sheldon since he was 9, Parsons said: “Oh God, no.”

“It’s such a different experience for him, and he’s so smart. He doesn’t need any,” Parsons added.

“He’s got good guidance. He and his mother, they’re just fantastic.”

“So, he’ll be fine. God knows what he’ll do,” Parsons said, adding, “He could do anything.”

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Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) Hollywood actress Brooke Shields’ kids are set to head off to their college. But the actress says her parenting journey is far from over.

The model and actress shared that she thought she would feel “relieved” when she reached the point where her two daughters — Rowan, 20, and Grier, 18 — were all grown up and living independently, reports ‘People’ magazine.

Instead, she’s discovered that moms never really stop worrying about their kids. She said, “You get on vacation and all you do is think about where they are and what they’re doing. It’s like there’s really no relief.”

She told ‘People’, “It’s like people say, ‘Oh, it’s going to be great. Just when they start to be able to walk. You don’t have to carry them everywhere. Then they’re walking all over and you’re worried about them falling off the stairs and in the pool and down the street, and then they’re able to walk’.”

She added, “And every step of the way, you think it’s going to be a relief. And then a whole new set of worries just smacks you in the face.”

Even though her daughters are entering adulthood, the ‘Mother of the Bride’ star says she still doesn’t feel like she can ease up on the worrying and mental load that comes with being a parent.

“What is the expression? Wearing your heart on your sleeve? This is like a hard suit. A whole body suit of a heart,” she said as she described the experience of having children.

Come September, when Grier heads off to college, she and Henchy (60) will find themselves with an empty house — a prospect Shields says she initially looked forward to but now has her feeling off-kilter.

“(I’m) not ready. I thought I would be relieved, but I don’t know. I’ll see if when I get there, but I think I’m just going to be even… the thought of no longer living 24/7 in the house with these people that I’ve raised, it’s just very foreign … it’s like going to a totally foreign territory,” she added.

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Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg is celebrating Mother’s Day with two “special moms”.

On Sunday, the actor (52) shared a sweet post that celebrated his wife Rhea Durham (45) and his late mother, Alma Wahlberg, who died in 2021 at age 78.

The actor wrote in his caption alongside the carousel of images, “Happy Mother’s Day. Miss you mom. Love you babe @byrheawahlberg,” reports ‘People’ magazine.

The post included photos of Mark with his late mom, his wife and the couple’s two sons, Brendan (15) and Michael (18) and daughters Ella (20) and Grace (14).

In the first shot, the family posed together in a photo that appeared to have been taken at Alma’s 75th birthday celebrations. A second shot showed them all together, smiling as they sat on a couch.

As per ‘People’, Mark’s final photo showed his wife surrounded by their four children outside as they appeared to be enjoying a day together in the sun.

In April, Durham proudly took to her Instagram to share a photo of her with her husband and their son together on vacation. In the picture, Durham is wearing a floral dress while the boys sport T-shirts and hats. She also has one arm around Wahlberg and the other around Brendan.

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Los Angeles, May 12 (IANS) The ‘Thor’ actor Chris Hemsworth has honoured the special women in his life on the occasion of Mother’s Day.

The actor (40) posted a sweet tribute to both his wife Elsa Pataky and mother Leonie as he marked Mother’s Day for the pair on Instagram on Sunday, reports ‘People’ magazine.

“Happy Mother’s Day to my two favourites,” Hemsworth wrote in the caption of his post while sharing photos that featured the special moms in his life, reports ‘People’ magazine.

In the first photo, Pataky (47) pouted at the camera as she appeared with cream on her nose from a mug of hot chocolate she held up to her face.

Hemsworth planted a kiss on his mom’s head in the second shot he shared. In the sweet snap, the actor had his arm around Leonie while they posed together for the outdoor photo.

The actor also included a black-and-white photo of himself dressed up as his iconic character Thor alongside Pataky, who appeared as her character Wolf Woman from ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ in a similar armoured costume with a long mullet wig and fake fanged teeth, as the pair embraced and held hands.

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