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Maria Menounos & Husband Keven Undergaro Expecting 1st Baby
This was expected to beryllium Maria Menounos' champion twelvemonth yet.
After struggling to conceive for a decade, she and hubby Keven Undergaro announced successful aboriginal February they are expecting a baby miss via surrogate.
That aforesaid month, however, Menounos was privately battling Stage 2 pancreatic cancer, she shared with People. Fortunately, doctors successfully removed a 3.9-inch tumor on with portion of her pancreas, her spleen, a ample fibroid and 17 lymph nodes.
"This full twelvemonth has been trauma, stress, crisis," Menounos, who was diagnosed with and was treated for a encephalon tumor successful 2017, told the outlet. "I had that infinitesimal wherever I thought I was a goner—but I'm good due to the fact that I caught this aboriginal enough."
Getting to a spot of healing wasn't easy. Over the summer, the 44-year-old began suffering from specified terrible limb cramps that, arsenic she explained, "I'd shriek retired loud. I was inconsolable."
She aboriginal learned she had benignant 1 diabetes—which runs successful her family—and began taking insulin and monitoring her glucose. "I was crushing it," a hopeful Menounous recalled. "I felt truthful good. What other could spell wrong?" Well...
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In November, she returned to the infirmary with what she called "with excruciating abdominal symptom coupled with diarrhea."
A CT scan and further investigating came backmost inconclusive, but her symptom continued. At 1 point, she described, she felt "like idiosyncratic was tearing my insides out."
Finally, a afloat assemblage MRI revealed a wide connected her pancreas, with a biopsy confirming it was cancerous. "I'm similar 'How successful the freaking satellite tin I person a encephalon tumor and pancreatic cancer?'" the erstwhile E! big said. "All I could deliberation was that I person a babe coming."
Though the country was a success, the roadworthy to betterment has, admittedly, been difficult, with Menounous—who does not request chemotherapy, conscionable regular scans—struggling to move.
Her family, including Keven and her dad Constantinos, person been her pillars of strength. (Her mom Litsa died successful 2017 after a conflict with encephalon cancer.)
"I'm truthful grateful and truthful lucky," Menounos shared, who is counting down the days to her baby's accomplishment this summer. "God granted maine a miracle. I'm going to admit having her successful my beingness truthful overmuch much than I would person earlier this journey."
She knows her ma is close determination with her, too. "I cognize my ma had a cupful of greek java with deity and said it's time," Menounos said successful February. "So grateful for the blessing successful our lives. Cant judge I'm sharing this quality without her successful the physical, but I cognize she made it hap connected the different broadside and is going to beryllium with maine each measurement of the way."
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