Maria Menounos Talks Surviving Pancreatic Cancer While Expecting Baby Via Surrogacy
deadline.comMaria Menounos has had a rough year as she was diagnosed with Stage 2 pancreatic cancer and undergoing surgery all while expecting a baby via surrogacy. “I was feeling so good, and then I got slapped in the face with a new diagnosis,” Menounos told People. “I’d scream out loud, I was inconsolable.” The former Extra host opened up about her health telling the magazine that she had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (which runs in her family) last year.
Menounos said that she “was crushing it” by October after being prescribed insulin and going on a strict diet. However, by November, the former E!
News host was back at the hospital “with excruciating abdominal pain coupled with diarrhea.” Menounos underwent more tests but the results yielded nothing.
With pain continuing to affect Menounos’s quality of life, she had more studies done and received a whole-body MRI. The results of those tests revealed she had a 3.9 cm.
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