Mother And Daughter Going Through The Almost Same Problem! Maria Menounos Diagnosed With Brain Tumor While Her Mom Is Going Through Brain Cancer

There are many celebrities who have a fight with severe diseases and came over it.
Likely, Shannen Doherty fought with breast cancer, Erin Andrews went through Cervical cancer, moreover, there are many other stars too.

Not only them, the American actress and journalist Maria Menounos also fought with a meningioma type of brain tumor.

She is not only the person in her family who went through this severe disease, her mother Litsa Menounos, is currently battling stage 4 brain cancer.

Maria went through the surgery to remove a golf-ball-size meningioma brain tumor last month.

Let’s find out more about her:

Source: Life & Style (Maria Menounos and her mother)

Diagnosis of Maria Menounos and her mother’s battle with cancer

Maria Menounos is the highlight as she underwent the surgery to remove a golf-ball-size meningioma brain tumor last month. She shared her experience through the entire criteria with PEOPLE magazine.

She stated:

“This February I thought I had an ear infection so I went to a doctor, and he said, ‘Your ears are the cleanest things I’ve ever seen. What else are you feeling?’ I’d been getting light-headed on-set and having headaches. My speech had gotten slurred, and I was having difficulty reading the teleprompter. I said,‘I know you’re going to think I’m crazy, but I think I have a brain tumor like my mom. He said, ‘I don’t think you’re crazy. Let’s just get an MRI.’ The next week I started feeling better, so I was like, ‘I’m clearly paranoid.’ So I kept pushing the MRI.”

Later on, after three months she performed the scan of her brain and knew her brain tumor, which was not cancerous.

Source: NY Daily News (Maria Menounos and her mother, Litsa, ) — Source: NY Daily News (Maria Menounos and her mother, Litsa)

She was removed and her prognosis is hopeful. Followingly, she went for the decision of stepping down from her E! News position following the health scare.

In a statement, she mentioned:

“I am so grateful for the past three years at E!, I had such an amazing time co-hosting with Jason Kennedy and working everyday with the wonderful roster of talent on the show including producers, staff and crew. It was such a special, good-hearted group and one I’ll always consider family. A special thank you to Frances Berwick and Adam Stotsky for all the support they have shown me through the years especially during these tough times. I will truly miss everyone and looking forward to this next chapter in my life.”

In an interview, which aired on Monday, July 3, she gave an emotional interview about her ordeal. She said crying:

Source: Getty Images (Actress Maria Menounos (C) and parents Constantinos Menounos and Litsa Menounos)

“For me, I saw it as a huge blessing and a huge gift because I needed to change my life. We’re caretakers as women and we help everybody and we put ourselves last always. And I don’t think — at least for me — I guess I realized I didn’t value myself in a lot of ways. And so I think that that was a really important lesson.”

Through this entire process, she is getting all the support from her fiance Keven Undergaro. As she is recovering, she shared with Today:

“I want to start a family. You realize really quickly when something like this happens that nothing else really matters.”

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