Motherhood Was Finally Within Reach , Maria Menounos, 45, Expecting Baby Via Surrogate

Maria Menounos is again speaking out about her battle with pancreatic cancer ... and her experience has been more horrifying than anyone could imagine.

The entertainment reporter sat for an interview on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast hosted by Amanda Hirsch, during which Maria made a stunning revelation … her doctors completely missed her cancerous tumor during an initial exam, causing it to greatly metastasize.

Speaking on the "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast, she explained that her tumour had grown significantly since her first examination in November.

"When they found the tumour in the MRI, they said, 'Can we go back and get the records and look at the November scan? I bet it was there,'" the Greek-American said. "And it was."

"At that point it was two centimetres (0.79 inches), and by the time they had found it was almost four centimetres (1.5 inches), it had doubled in size in two months," she continued.

Leading up to her diagnosis, the 45-year-old, who is expecting her first child via surrogate with husband Keven Undergaro this summer, said she had chronic abdominal pain.

The 44-year-old went on: “What I’ve learned since is — because I’m just healing from all of this — what I’m learning is that different scans have the ability to see different things better. So for this, an MRI was what’s really going to see it. For other things, a CAT scan’s better. … So the radiologist went back, and he was able to see it and do an addendum and say, ‘Yes, now with the knowledge it was there, we were able to see it. It is there.’”

“That was a big thing I’ve learned along the way. If you believe there’s a plan for you whether it’s the universe or god, you have to go through the motions; you have to do things that make sense: you got to go work, you got to do all these things. It’s like no matter what we do, sometimes the things that we want is just not the right time. Everything has its season and its moments.”

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