Maria Menounos retains an optimistic picture within the public eye, however that doesn’t imply the tv host doesn’t have her personal battles to take care of.

She and her husband. Keven Undergaro, introduced earlier this yr that they’re anticipating a child lady through surrogate, a really completely satisfied occasion as they’ve struggled with fertility for years, however it hasn’t all been sunshine.

Though they’re tremendous excited to fulfill their child lady, issues have been too demanding, and Maria wants time to herself.

She revealed to Those that she was identified with Stage 2 pancreatic most cancers and had surgical procedure to take away a 3.9-centimeter tumor.

“This entire yr has been trauma, stress, disaster. There was a minute after we have been planning one thing, after which it turned an excessive amount of. I assumed, ‘I simply have to heal,’” she mentioned of the previous few months.

Maria has been down this highway earlier than, as she was handled for a benign mind tumor in 2017, however that doesn’t make it any much less demanding.

The smiling tv star is utilizing her expertise to encourage different folks to take full management of their well being, making a constructive from a tough scenario.

Maria Menounos encourages folks to take management of their very own well being

One factor that Maria took away from her experiences is to at all times search for the solutions once you’re experiencing a well being drawback, and she or he urges others to do the identical.

Her signs started in the summertime of final yr and began with some severe leg cramps.

On the time, she sought therapy and was identified with kind 1 diabetes, which runs in her household. She took cost of her well being, monitored her meals and glucose, and noticed loads of enchancment for a number of weeks till she ended up again within the hospital with belly ache.

“They mentioned, ‘All the pieces’s superb.’ However I saved having pains,” she revealed, noting that some have been so unhealthy it was “like somebody was tearing my insides out.”

She ended up finishing a full-body MRI scan which revealed the cancerous mass on her pancreas and biopsied the mass to substantiate it was Stage 2 pancreatic most cancers.

Remedy wasn’t simple, as not solely was the mass eliminated, however a part of her pancreas was eliminated alongside together with her spleen, a fibroid, and 17 lymph nodes.

Though it was a painful journey, and she or he continues to be recovering, Maria is completely satisfied that she was in a position to get a correct analysis and therapy and is able to give attention to the arrival of her child lady.

Maria Menounos reveals new life appreciation following secret most cancers battle

Luckily, Maria doesn’t appear to wish any radiation or chemotherapy therapy. She may have scans achieved yearly to maintain a watch out for any cancerous tumors, however in any other case, she is doing nice in her restoration.

Though the well being scare wasn’t wanted, Maria added that she is “so grateful and so fortunate” and that “God granted her a miracle.”

This flip of occasions has left her feeling much more blessed than earlier than to have her child lady in her life, and she or he is able to present her child simply how a lot she appreciates her, an appreciation that has solely grown since her most up-to-date most cancers therapy.