“I’d been getting lightheaded on set and having headaches. My speech had gotten slurred and I was having difficulty reading the teleprompter. (An MRI revealed Menounos had a golf-ball-size meningioma brain tumor that was pushing on her facial nerves). I didn’t cry. I actually laughed. It’s so surreal and crazy and unbelievable that my mom has a brain tumor—and now I have one too?”
Her surgeon was able to remove 99.9 percent of the tumor, which was benign:
“He said there’s a six to seven percent chance that we’ll see it come back. But I’ll take those odds any day.”
On her recovery:
“I don’t have my balance fully yet but as long as I’m holding on to Keven, I’m sturdy and fine. My face is still numb. This is something that takes at least a month of healing, but I’m getting stronger and stronger every day and I’ll be back to normal very soon.”
On leaving E! News and re-evaluating her life:
“We’re caretakers as women and we put ourselves last. I tell people all the time if your car is making a weird noise, you take it to the mechanic. How come when our body is making weird noises, we ignore it? I’m so lucky that I went to the doctor and raised the alarm.”
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