This article will highlight the parents of Maria Menounos, a Greek-American journalist, and television presenter, Litsa and Constantinos.
Maria Menounos is a Greek-American journalist, television presenter, and actress who was born on June 8, 1978, in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Menounos was born in the Boston suburb of Medford, Massachusetts, to Greek immigrant parents Costas and Litsa Menounos who worked as janitors in a Boston nightclub.
She has a younger brother named Peter. Maria Menounos attended the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Somerville, Massachusetts. She also attended Medford High School in Medford.
In 1995, Menounos began to compete in beauty pageants. The following year, she won the title of Miss Massachusetts Teen USA, and she competed at Miss Teen USA where she placed in the top 15, receiving an honorary mention, during the preliminary competition. She placed 13th in the preliminaries. She competed for the title of Miss Massachusetts USA 2000 and was the first runner-up.
Menounos attended Boston’s Emerson College participating there in the organization Emerson Independent Video. She graduated from Emerson in 2000.
She has hosted Extra and E! News; she was a TV correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. She also co-created and is currently CEO of the online podcast series network AfterBuzz TV. She is currently signed to WWE where she has served as an ambassador since 2013. She hosts the podcast Conversations with Maria Menounos.
In 2012, Menounos posed nude for the May issue of Allure magazine. In the same year, Menounos told Howard Stern that she had previously been sexually abused by two different doctors during medical examinations.
In April 2017, she had surgery to remove a meningioma, an intracranial tumor that was benign. Menounos married Keven Undergaro in Times Square during the 2017 New Year’s festivities in a ceremony officiated by Steve Harvey and then again at a 2018 Orthodox wedding in Akovos, Greece. On February 7, 2023, Menounos and her husband announced they were having a baby with the aid of a surrogate.
Maria Menounos parents
Maria Menounos was born in Medford, Massachusetts, United States to Greek immigrant parents Constantinos Menounos (father) and Litsa Menounos (mother). Her parents worked as janitors in a Boston nightclub.
Her mother died in 2021 after battling with stage 4 brain cancer.
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