Maria Menounos

As she was caring for her mother, suffering from stage 4 brain cancer, Maria discovered she was facing the health challenges of her own. In February 2014 Menounos started experiencing troubling symptoms. She tells PEOPLE that she was experiencing headaches and lightheadedness from February 2014. "My speech became slurred. It was also difficult for me to using the prompter on the teleprompter." A MRI discovered that Menounos suffered from a large golf ball-sized meningioma brain tumor pushing on her facial nerves. Menounos scheduled an appointment to meet her mother's neurosurgeon Dr. Keith L. Black. The surgeon scheduled the surgery to take place on June 8, Menounos 39th birthday. He told her, "I am 98 percent positive that the tumor is not malignant, but we'll never know until we actually get there," Dr. Black managed to eliminate 99.9 percent of benign tumors in a complex operation that took seven hours. "He stated that there's an 8% to 7% probability that it'll occur again," she says. It's a good thing I can take these odds any day. Menounos has been admitted to hospital for six days, is now at home and is spending her moment recuperating.