Maria Menounos

Maria found out she was facing a personal health crisis as she looked after her mother with Stage 4 brain tumors. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She told PEOPLE that she has been experiencing headaches and lightheadedness from February 2014. "My speech became disorganized. It was also difficult for me to using the Teleprompter." A MRI revealed Menounos to be suffering from a massive meningioma tumor in the brain that was growing to the size that of a golf ball. The tumour was pressing the facial nerves. Menounos agreed to an appointment in conjunction with doctor. Keith L. Black the neurosurgeon who is her mother's doctor and set the surgery to be performed on June 8. Menounos is now 39 years old. "He told me that he was 98 percent certain it's normal, but we won't know until we get in there at the time of surgery,'" she says. In the arduous surgery which lasted about seven hours, Dr. Black was able to remove 99.9 percent of the tumour. This was benign. According Dr. Black, there's a 6-7 percent chance that the cancer will come back. "But I'll go with those odds anytime." Menounos returned home after an inpatient stay of six days. She is currently recuperating and enjoying moments with Litsa, her mother. Litsa's latest MRI confirms that she is not suffering from cancer.