After sharing her recent cancer battle, Maria Menounos is embracing her life and body. In a recent Instagram post, the TV personality wore a bikini and revealed the scars from her pancreatic cancer surgery earlier this year.
She wrote in the caption, “I look back on surgery earlier this year and am grateful for the strength God blessed me with to get through and, of course, all of the beautiful humans He sent to help me too!” She added, “Now I see the scars I sunscreen up carefully to protect, and I smile.” The 44-year-old shared that she was diagnosed with stage 2 pancreatic cancer in May and underwent surgery to remove a 3.9 cm tumor at the beginning of the year.
On the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, she explained that doctors initially missed the tumor during a scan, which doubled in size before she was diagnosed after a full-body MRI. She said of receiving the diagnosis before the birth of her first daughter, “I was just f—ing gutted. I was just guttural crying, and I was like, ‘I can’t believe God just blessed me with a baby; I’m gonna have a baby.’”
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She continued, “We were two months along, and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I’m finally going to have a baby, and I’m not going to get to meet her.” The former E! News host and her husband, Keven Undergaro, are preparing to welcome a baby girl via surrogate this summer.
In May, after Menounos revealed her diagnosis and successful surgery, her husband told Fox News Digital, “She’s taken a lot of hits but keeps moving forward. If anyone can overcome this, she can. And Maria, being Maria, did.”
Menounos had previously survived a brain tumor in 2017, which ended up being benign. “I’m like, ‘How in the freaking world can I have a brain tumor and pancreatic cancer?’ All I could think was that I have a baby coming,” she told People in May. But even with a litany of health conditions, Menounos maintains a positive outlook.
She said, “I’m so grateful and so lucky. God granted me a miracle. I’m going to appreciate having her in my life so much more than I would have before this journey.”
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