Maria Menounos

Maria helped her mother with the stage 4 brain cancer. She discovered that she was in severe health issues. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. In the exclusive cover story in PEOPLE Menounos admits that she experienced headaches and lightheadedness on sets. "My speech became disorganized. It was also difficult for me to understanding the teleprompter." A MRI showed Menounos to have a very large meningioma brain tumor that has grown to the size that of a golf ball. It was pressing her facial nerves. Menounos scheduled an appointment with her mother's doctor the renowned Neurosurgeon Dr. Keith L. Black, and they scheduled surgery on June 8, her 39th birthday. He told her, "I am 98 percent convinced that this is a benign condition, however, we won't know until we get into there," Dr. Black managed to eliminate 99.9 percent of benign tumors with a complicated surgery that took seven hours. According Dr. Black, there's an opportunity of 6-7 percent of the tumor recurring. The odds of this are my top choice. Menounos she was admitted to hospital for six days, is back at home and spending recuperating.