What awful news.

Maria Menounos has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and underwent surgery to remove the golf-ball-size meningioma last month, she announced to People. Her health battle comes as her mom Litsa Menounos fights stage 4 brain cancer.

"This February I thought I had an ear infection so I went to a doctor, and he said, 'Your ears are the cleanest things I've ever seen. What else are you feeling?' I'd been getting light-headed on-set and having headaches. My speech had gotten slurred, and I was having difficulty reading the teleprompter. I said, 'I know you're going to think I'm crazy, but I think I have a brain tumor like my mom.'He said, 'I don't think you're crazy. Let's just get an MRI.' The next week I started feeling better, so I was like, 'I'm clearly paranoid.' So I kept pushing the MRI," she told the mag.

Although doctors have determined her tumor isn't cancerous and her prognosis is good, she's decided to leave her hosting position at E! News.

"I am so grateful for the past three years at E!, I had such an amazing time co-hosting with Jason Kennedy and working everyday with the wonderful roster of talent on the show including producers, staff and crew. It was such a special, good-hearted group and one I'll always consider family. A special thank you to Frances Berwick and Adam Stotsky for all the support they have shown me through the years especially during these tough times. I will truly miss everyone and looking forward to this next chapter in my life," she said in a statement.

So what has she learned from the ordeal?

"For me, I saw it as a huge blessing and a huge gift because I needed to change my life. We’re caretakers as women and we help everybody and we put ourselves last always. And I don’t think — at least for me — I guess I realized I didn’t value myself in a lot of ways. And so I think that that was a really important lesson," she explained tearfully during an emotional interview on Today.

“I want to start a family. You realize really quickly when something like this happens that nothing else really matters," she added.

We admire her courage and positive outlook.