Maria Menounos

Maria discovered that she had an individual health issue as she looked after her mother, who had cancer of the brain in stage 4. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She tells PEOPLE that she was experiencing lightheadedness and headaches since February 2014. "My speech became slurred. It was also difficult for me to using the prompter on the teleprompter." The results of an MRI found that Menounos was suffering from a meningioma the size of a golf ball brain tumor, which was pressing onto her facial nerves. Menounos booked an appointment with her mom's physician, famous Neurosurgeon Dr. Keith L. Black, and they scheduled surgery for June 8-her 39th birthday. She says that he said, "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. The doctor. Black told her that it's possible to see the tumor come back in six-to seven percent of the cases. They're my best chance to bet. Menounos is admitted to hospital for 6 days, is back at home, and spending recuperating.