Holiday has brain tumor removed

Former US soccer player and new mother Lauren Holiday has completed surgery to remove a brain tumor that was detected when she was eight months pregnant.

Born Lauren Cheney, she retired in 2015 at the peak of her career to begin a family with her husband, basketball player Jrue Holiday of the New Orleans Pelicans, whose she married two years previously.

On September 24, Lauren gave birth to a healthy baby girl, meaning she could finally go through with the necessary surgery to have the tumor removed.