Maria Menounos

Maria helped her mother suffering from the stage 4 brain cancer. It was discovered that she was in an extremely serious health condition. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She tells PEOPLE they've noticed headaches, lightheadedness and nausea since February 2014. "My speech was becoming lost and I had trouble comprehending the transcript". The results of an MRI revealed Menounos had a golf-ball-size meningioma brain tumor pushing into her facial nerves. Menounos agreed to an appointment for surgery with Dr. Keith L. Black the neurosurgeon of her mother and set surgery for the 8th of June. Menounos is now 39 years old. "He told me that he was 98 percent certain it's normal, but it will be determined once we're there and see what happens,'" she says. The complicated procedure took around seven hours and the doctor. Black was capable of eliminating 99.9% of the benign cancer. She says that Dr. Black said it was possible for the tumor to return in between six and seven percent of the cases. The odds of this are my top bet. Menounos has been admitted to hospital for 6 days, is now at home at home and has been spending recuperating.