Live from e!
at 24, maria menounos was the youngest person to host gossip show entertainment tonight in 2002. the now-35-year-old has taken over us entertainment tv and is a third of the live from e! panel (with jason kennedy and ross mathews). you’ll also know the gorgeous greek-american from her roles as jules in one tree hill (20032006) and as herself on entourage (20042011), ridiculousness (2011-current) and the mindy project (2012-current).
long before fame, maria worked for dunkin’ donuts when she was 13. these days she admits to only eating “food from the ground”. that explains her impressive 18kg weightloss that maria attributes to eating clean. she shed the first 9kg in just five months and the rest was lost slowly over a 10-year period. she’s been dating the same guy since she was 19 – she and keven undergaro share a home with her parents. although her folks are rooting for wedding bells, maria’s hearing the sound of her biological clock ticking and wants to start a family soon. just a year after she began competing in beauty pageants in 1995, maria was crowned miss massachusetts teen usa and then made the top 15 of miss teen usa. she competed for the title of miss massachusetts usa 2000 and was placed first runner-up. while most girls watch wrestling for the hot guys, maria turned her fandom into full-on participation. she popped up on raw in october 2009 and won the first divas match she entered. she left the wwe in august 2013, with a victory in her final divas match. maria still owns the very first car that she bought when she moved to la – a fully restored 1962 candy-apple red chevrolet corvair convertible.