Maria Menounos

Maria was helping her mother with the stage 4 brain cancer. Maria was able to recognize that she was in an extremely serious health condition. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. "I'd noticed that I was feeling lightheaded when I was on set and had migraines" Menounos tells PEOPLE in the magazine's new exclusive front page story. My speech was getting blurred and I was having difficult getting the teleprompter to understand. The results of an MRI discovered that Menounos had a golf-ball-size meningioma brain tumor which was pushing onto her facial nerves. Menounos booked an appointment to consult her mom's neurosurgeon, Dr. Keith L. Black. Surgery was scheduled for the 8th of June, Menounos' 39th birthday. "He stated, 'I'm 98 percent sure it's a benign tumor, but it will be determined once we're in the hospital,'" she says. The complex procedure, lasting about 7 hours the surgeon Dr. Black was able to remove 99.9 percent of the tumour, which was benign. "He stated that there's an eight to seven percent probability that it'll occur again," she says. Yet, I'll be willing to take this chance any time. Menounos has been admitted to the hospital for six days, has returned to home and spending moment recuperating.