Maria Menounos

While caring for her mother, who has Stage 4 brain cancer Maria learned that she was in the midst of an illness in her own. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She tells PEOPLE that she was experiencing headaches and lightheadedness since February 2014. "My speech was slurred. Also, I had difficulty comprehending the prompter on the teleprompter." The results of an MRI revealed Menounos was suffering from a meningioma the size of a golf ball brain tumor that was pushing the facial nerves. Menounos had an appointment scheduled to see her mother's doctor famous Neurosurgeon Dr. Keith L. Black to schedule surgery to be performed on June 8 - her birthday. Dr. Black stated that the tumor was 98 percent benign. However, we wouldn't know that until the time they reach. Dr. Black managed to eliminate 99.9 percent of benign tumors through a procedure that took 7 hours. According to Dr. Black, there is the possibility of it coming back. "But I'll go with those odds anytime." Menounos is home after an inpatient stay of six days. She's currently recovering and enjoying moments with Litsa the mother of her. Litsa's recent MRI confirms that she's not suffering from cancer.