Maria Menounos gets candid about her struggle, battle with cancer

Maria Menounos is showing gratitude towards life after overcoming several challenges and struggles during the past few years.

The 45-year-old TV personality earlier disclosed that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is on stage 2, in January and underwent a successful surgery combating the disease.

While the actress has been diagnosed with a fatal disease, same time she and her husband, Kevin Undergaro, were expecting their first child, daughter Athena, via surrogate.

The Massachusetts native on Thursday via Instagram talked about her health journey and the joy of becoming a parent at the same time.

"Hi friends! Motherhood is going great. Athena is an Angel. She’s currently asleep on me as we get some morning light. I’m so in love it’s crazy," Menounos noted in the caption of a photo that depicted her beaming while clad in a T-shirt adorned with the wording ‘Mother’ and holding her 6-week-old daughter.

She continued, "Thank you to all of you for the love. I look back at the last 6 years-it’s been kinda crazy. Mom gets a brain tumor, then me, two brain surgeries later, then both my parents are hospitalized with covid, then I lost my mom, then I got diagnosed with type one diabetes, then a Neuro endocrine tumor on my pancreas…some other crazy stuff in between too."

"Kev says I maybe roll to (sic) well with the punches and I should sit back and acknowledge it all more -maybe at some point I will dig in deeper," Menounos added.

"Right now just that list makes me so grateful to be alive and to have thrived. To be here to enjoy this beautiful little girl. Thank you god! Thank you st Nectarios and Panagia. I pray all of it is behind us and only great days ahead!"

Menounous, in May, publicly spoke about her cancer diagnosis and that she had a successful operation to remove the 3.9 cm tumor along with part of her pancreas, her spleen, a large fibroid and 17 lymph nodes.