Maria Menounos

While caring for her mother, suffering from stage 4 brain cancer Maria discovered she was in the midst of the possibility of a health issue of her own. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. "I'd noticed that I was feeling lightheaded when I was on set and had headaches" she told PEOPLE in its exclusive feature. My speech became blurred and I was having difficult comprehension of the teleprompter. A MRI found that Menounos had a size golf ball-sized meningioma brain tumor, which was pressing into her facial nerves. Menounos had an arrangement made in conjunction with Dr. Keith L. Black her mother's neurosurgeon and scheduled the surgery to be performed on June 8. Menounos is now 39 years old. The doctor told her that, "I am 98 percent sure that it's benign but we'll never know until we go into the," The complicated procedure took around seven hours, and Dr. Black was capable of removing 99.9% of the benign cancer. "He said there's a six to seven percent possibility that it will be back again," she says. This is my most reliable bet. Now back at home after an eight-day stay in the hospital, Menounos is recovering and spending the time she can with her mom Litsa who's most recent MRI shows that her cancer remains healthy.