Maria Menounos

Maria helped her mother who had the stage 4 brain cancer. She discovered that she was suffering from an extremely serious health condition. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. Menounos tells PEOPLE that she had been suffering from headaches, lightheadedness and nausea since February 2014. "My speech became blurred, and I was having difficulty understanding the prompter". Menounos discovered she had a meningioma-size brain tumor. A MRI confirmed this. Menounos set an appointment see her mother's neurosurgeon, Dr. Keith L. Black. They scheduled surgery for June 8, Menounos 39th birthday. The doctor said the surgery was 98 per cent benign. However, we wouldn't be able to know until we get there. The complex procedure, lasting about 7 hours the surgeon Dr. Black was able to take out 99.9 percent of the tumour. The result was not cancerous. She claims that Dr. Black said it was possible to see the tumor come back in six-to seven percent of cases. "But I'll take the odds any day." Returning home from an eight-day stay in the hospital, Menounos is healing and spending some time with her mother, Litsa who's most recent MRI confirms that her cancer is well-controlled.