What Is Going On with Brandi Glanville's Face? Here's Why She Thinks a Parasite Is to Blame for Her Facial Disfiguration

Mar. 15, 2025

Brandi Glanville attends the grand opening of Beverly Hills Rejuvenation Clinic on April 25, 2024, in West Hollywood, Calif. ; Brandi Glanville in December 2024.Photo:Paul Archuleta/Getty ; Brandi Glanville/ X

Paul Archuleta/Getty ; Brandi Glanville/ X

Brandi Glanvilleis speaking out — not aboutThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsdrama, but rather, her ongoing health struggles.

During a December 2024 appearance onPage Six’sVirtual Reali-Teapodcast,TheTraitorsalum opened up about the “rough two years” she has been having and the mental toll it has taken.

“It’s hard to hide out during Christmas when everyone’s having their parties. It’s depressing. It just hurts my brain and my heart,” she said. “The pain is more mental than anything, because I have been hiding andgoing through a deep, deep depression. Even if I could work now, at this point, I couldn’t."

So what’s happening with Brandi Glanville’s face? Here’s everything to know about the parasiteThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsalum suspects is disfiguring her face.

What is happening with Brandi Glanville’s face?

Brandi Glanville.Brandi Glanville/Instagram

Brandi Glanville/Instagram

For nearly two years, Glanville has been facing an ongoing struggle with facial disfigurement.

“I prefer [my face] when it’s a little swollen, to be honest,” Glanville said. “When it’s only swollen on one side, it’s not great. But the sinking in thing is killing me slowly, because I just feel like I look like a crackhead.”

She added, “I’ve had days of looking normal, not weeks. I wish. But it comes and goes.”

Glanville shared withEntertainment Tonightin December 2024 that she believes she contracted a “parasite” from her time in Morocco, North Africa, while filmingReal Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.

“We had food sitting out for hours on end, and some of it was meat,” she explained toEntertainment Tonight, adding that it started in July 2023, “six months” after she returned from Morocco.

Whether it’s a parasite or not, one thing is for certain: Glanville is “sick of being sick.”

“I’m sick of hearing myself complain. I’m sick of everything. I’msick of the way I look. I’m sick of, like, just hiding out in my house,” Glanville said during a January 2025 episode of her podcastBrandi Glanville Unfiltered.

What are Brandi Glanville’s symptoms?

Brandi Glanville shares photos of her facial disfigurement.Brandi Glanville/X

Brandi Glanville/X

Glanville has been experiencing a long list of symptoms over the last few months.

The former model shared onEntertainment Tonightthat she can see and feel the unknown “parasite” move within her face if she “messes with it,” describing that it looks like “tiny bubbles bursting” on her skin.

“I feel like it’s s—ing or having babies in my face,” she added.

Glanville posted an update onXon March 8 and outlined her symptoms, which include “painful lumps” in her jaw bone area, as well as on the side and back of her neck.

“I havechills & a constant oily foul tasting drainagefrom face into mouth. It’s acidic & is eating away at my teeth,” she added. “Plus all of my lymph nodes in head & neck are swollen. Drs at Kaiser say I’m fine :/ HELP ME.”

What treatment has Brandi Glanville undergone for her face?

Brandi Glanville.Brandi Glanville/X

Glanville has visited an immunologist, an infectious disease doctor, a rheumatologist and an ENT in hopes of finding a solution, as she noted toEntertainment Tonight.

“I’ve been to every doctor under the sun,” she told the outlet. “I’ve been on meds this whole year, I don’t socialize. I don’t go out. I’ve just been spending all my money on trying to figure out what’s wrong with me.”

Glanville revealed she has spent “over $70,000” so far — including $10,000 on lab work — and every treatment has just been a temporary fix.

In December 2024, she shared onXthat she haddissolved all of the filler in her faceand that she was seeing “all the best doctors” at Cedar Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and “the doctors they referred me to.”

“I was getting better I looked normal but I couldn’t afford to stay on them,” Glanville wrote onXon March 6. “I was forced to see drs outside my insurance because the drs at Kaiser had no clue.”

In January 2025, Glanville announced onXthat she had turned toBotchedstar and plastic surgeonDr. Terry Dubrowfor help.

“Yes guys@DrDubrow took 4 tiny biopsy’s from my faceand neck so we can continue to get better 💕ez pz no pain I was in and out on 30 minutes now we wait🙏🙏🙏🙏,” Glanville wrote.

A few days later, she posted a video onXof herselfusing a lymphatic drainage machine, captioned, “@DrDubrow⁩ let’s get this f—–.”

“I will shake for the rest of my life if this thing gets out of my body,” she said in the video.

Has Brandi Glanville received a diagnosis?

Brandi Glanville attends Peacock’s ‘The Traitors’ New York Press Junket on Dec. 14, 2022, in New York City.Joy Malone/Getty

Joy Malone/Getty

Despite months of searching for answers, Glanville is still awaiting an official diagnosis.

In December 2024, Dr. Dubrow toldTMZthat he doesn’t believe Glanville’s disfiguration stems from a parasite, but rather “an infectious process or a foreign body reaction to something she’s had injected.”

“There are these two kinds of microorganisms, one’s called a Microbacterium and the other is called a fungus, and they can be very difficult to treat and could take six to 12 months of antibiotics to treat,” he added, describing Brandi’s situation as a “ticking time bomb.”

“Every minute the microorganism is allowed to stay in her skin and do potential damage she could suffer worse for it,” he continued. “It could be more difficult to treat and she could form more scars and more nodules.”

Although Glanville is still awaiting official results from her biopsies, she gave a small update in the comment section of anInstagramphoto she posted on March 6.

One day later, she wrote on X that her face felt “worse than ever” and had “literally melted away.”

source: people.com