Maria Menounos

Maria discovered that she had medical issues of her own while she cared for her mother, who had stage 4 brain tumors. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She has told PEOPLE that she had been suffering from headaches and lightheadedness since February 2014. "My speech became slow and I was experiencing difficulty reading the Teleprompter". A MRI showed Menounos to have a very large meningioma brain tumor that increased to the size that of a golf ball. It was pressing on her facial nerves. Menounos made an appointment to see her mother's neurosurgeon, Dr. Keith L. Black. They scheduled surgery for June 8, Menounos' 39th birthday. "He stated, 'I'm 98 percent sure it's benign however, we'll only know that when we're in the hospital and see what happens,'" she says. Dr. Black managed to eliminate 99.9 percent of benign tumors through a surgery that took seven hours. She says that Dr. Black said it was possible for the tumor to reappearing in six to seven percent of the cases. However, I'll accept these odds at any moment. Menounos has returned home from an extended stay of six days in the hospital. Menounos is recuperating and spending her time with Litsa, her mother. Litsa's recent MRI confirms that she is still free of cancer.