Maria Menounos

Maria helped her mother who had stages four of brain cancer. The doctor told her that she had the middle of a health crisis. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She has told PEOPLE that she was experiencing lightheadedness and headaches since February 2014. My speech became blurred and I was having trouble getting the teleprompter to understand. An MRI confirmed Menounos to have a huge-sized meningioma brain tumor that increased to the size of a golfball. It was pressing on her facial nerves. Menounos made an appointment to see her mother's doctor renowned Neurosurgeon Dr. Keith L. Black The surgery was scheduled on June 8, her 39th birthday. "He stated, 'I'm 98 percent certain it's normal, however, we'll only know that when we get in there at the time of surgery,'" she says. The complex operation took about seven hours and the doctor. Black was capable of taking out 99.9 percent of the benign tumor. According Dr. Black, there is the possibility that the cancer will come back. "But I'll take those odds any day." Back at home following a six-day hospital stay, Menounos is healing and spending some time with her mother Litsa who's most recent MRI proves her cancer is solid.