Maria Menounos

Maria found out she was facing a personal health crisis as she cared for her mother, who had Stage 4 brain tumors. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. "I'd experienced lightheadedness when I was on set and had headaches," she told PEOPLE in their exclusive front page story. "My speech became slurred. I also had trouble understanding the Teleprompter." An MRI confirmed Menounos to have a huge-sized meningioma brain tumour that has grown to the size as a golf ball. It was pushing on the facial nerves. Menounos scheduled an appointment to meet her mother's neurosurgeon Dr. Keith L. Black. The surgery was scheduled to take place on June 8, Menounos 39th birthday. The doctor told her that, "I am 98 percent positive that the tumor is not malignant, but we will not know until we go into the," Dr. Black managed to eliminate 99.9% of benign tumors in a complex procedure that took 7 hours. She says that Dr. Black told her that it's possible to see the tumor reappearing in six to seven percent of the cases. "But I'll take the odds any day." Menounos she was admitted to hospital for six days, is currently at home, and spending time healing.