Maria Menounos Is ‘Grateful to Be Alive’ to Raise ‘Angel’ Daughter Athena: Motherhood Is ‘Crazy’

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Maria Menounos shared an update on how she’s adjusting to first-time parenthood after welcoming daughter Athena.“Hi friends!

Motherhood is going great,” she gushed in an Instagram post on Wednesday, August 9, giving fans a new glimpse of her baby girl. “Athena is an Angel.

She’s currently asleep on me as we get some morning light. I’m so in love it’s crazy.”In the sweet snap, Menounos, 45, wore a T-shirt that read “Mother” in a Barbie-inspired font.

She cradled Athena, whom she shares with husband Keven Undergaro, in her arms.Menounos went on to thank her fans for their support on her path to becoming a mom. “I look back at the last 6 years-it’s been kinda crazy,” she wrote. “Mom gets a brain tumor, then me, two brain surgeries later, then both my parents are hospitalized with covid, then I lost my mom, then I got diagnosed with type one diabetes, then a Neuro endocrine tumor on my pancreas…some other crazy stuff in between too.”She noted that Undergaro, 55, encourages her to “sit back and acknowledge” all that she’s been through to get to where she is now. “Maybe at some point I will dig in deeper,” she continued. “Right now just that list makes me so grateful to be alive and to have thrived.