She also told that she is not crazy about her diet, but she always eating and drinking juices and stuff because she want to stay healthy and keep her weight at the same place.
Menounos attended the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Somerville, Massachusetts. Menounos attended Medford High School in Medford, MA. In 1995, Menounos began to compete in beauty pageants.
The following year, Maria won the title of Miss Massachusetts Teen USA and competed at Miss Teen USA where she placed in the top 15, receiving an honorary mention, during the preliminary competition; Menounos placed 13th in preliminaries. The pageant was won by Christie Lee Woods. Maria competed for the title of Miss Massachusetts USA 2000; she was the 1st runner up.
Maria appeared in FHM magazine and in People magazine in 2004 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People.
Menounos was voted one of the top five girls a guy would most want to marry, along with Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron and Jessica Alba.
She has also beaten Jessica Alba and Charlize Theron for Cyber Vixen of the Year on Spike TV’s video game awards.
On August 8, 2010 she won the Madden NFL Pro-AM MVP award. She also won MadTV’s Smokin’ Hot TV Personality Award for 2010.
