{"id":2993,"date":"2023-07-18T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2023-07-18T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:00:10","slug":"maria-menounos-shares-pancreatic-cancer-surgery-scars-thanks-god-for-her-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailycupofwellness\/2023\/07\/maria-menounos-shares-pancreatic-cancer-surgery-scars-thanks-god-for-her-strength.html","title":{"rendered":"Maria Menounos Shares Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Scars, Thanks God For Her Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2999\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2999\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/410\/2023\/07\/maria-menounos-credit-dfree-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"maria menounos\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DFree\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote in the caption, &#8220;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!&#8221; She added, &#8220;Now I see the scars I sunscreen up carefully to protect, and I smile.&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>On the &#8220;Not Skinny But Not Fat&#8221; 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, &#8220;I was just f&#8212;ing gutted. I was just guttural crying, and I was like, &#8216;I can&#8217;t believe God just blessed me with a baby; I&#8217;m gonna have a baby.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CufoBChPNJn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CufoBChPNJn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by MARIA MENOUNOS (@mariamenounos)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWe were two months along, and I\u2019m like, \u2018I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m finally going to have a baby, and I\u2019m not going to get to meet her.\u201d The former E! News host and her husband, Keven Undergaro, are preparing to\u00a0welcome a baby girl\u00a0via surrogate this summer.<\/p>\n<p>In May, after Menounos revealed her diagnosis and successful surgery, her husband told Fox News Digital, \u201cShe\u2019s taken a lot of hits but keeps moving forward. If anyone can overcome this, she can. And Maria, being Maria, did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menounos had previously\u00a0survived a brain tumor\u00a0in 2017, which ended up being benign. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018How in the freaking world can I have a brain tumor and pancreatic cancer?\u2019 All I could think was that I have a baby coming,\u201d she told People in May. But even with a litany of health conditions, Menounos maintains a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI&#8217;m so grateful and so lucky. God granted me a miracle. 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