Maria Menounos

Maria was helping her mother who had the stage 4 brain cancer. The doctor told her that she was suffering from the middle of a health crisis. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. In the cover story in PEOPLE Menounos admits that she was suffering from headaches and lightheadedness on sets. My speech became difficult to understand, and I also had difficulties comprehending the teleprompter. An MRI found Menounos to be suffering from a massive meningioma tumor in the brain that increased to the size that of a golf ball. It was pressing on her facial nerves. Menounos made an arrangement with doctor. Keith L. Black the neurosurgeon of her mother and set surgery for June 8. Menounos is now 39 years old. The doctor told her that, "I am 98 percent certain it is benign, but we will not know until we go into the," Dr. Black managed to eliminate 99.9 percent of benign tumors through a procedure that took 7 hours. "He advised that there's about an 8% to 7% possibility that it will be back again," she says. "But I'll go with those odds anytime." Now back at home after having spent six days in a hospital Menounos is recovering and spending moments with mother, Litsa Her most recent MRI proves her cancer remains healthy.