Maria Menounos Cut Ties With Friend Who Shamed Her for Using Surrogate

Maria Menounos was met with some surprising reactions after deciding to go the surrogacy route to become a mom.

If you didn’t know, the 46-year-old TV personality and her husband Keven Undergaro welcomed their daughter Athena via surrogate in June 2023 after years of infertility issues.

In a new interview, Maria revealed that she was shamed by a now-former friend for using a surrogate.

Keep reading to find out more…“They were friends. One of them worked for me for a while,” Maria shared on Sasha Pieterse‘s Women in the Nude podcast.

“This is somebody who was, like, so sweet and I, like, loved,” Maria explained. “She said to my husband, ‘What do you mean she can’t carry? Like, that doesn’t make any sense.’”

“And he goes, ‘Her neurosurgeon — the top neurosurgeon in the world — said she can’t carry,’” the former E! News host continued. “And she was like, ‘I just don’t get it. It just doesn’t make any sense.’”

After that exchange, Maria cut ties with the friend.

“I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t ever want to talk to you again,’” Maria recalled. “It’s one thing to be judged by outside people who don’t know and don’t get it. But you actually know me, and you know what we’ve gone through. For you to even say anything so judgmental is just crazy to me.”

In another interview from 2023, Maria opened up about surviving Stage 2 pancreatic cancer.