Brandi Glanville shares doctor’s surprising idea on why her face looks different now

Brandi Glanville says doctors suspect her facial condition may be caused by a parasite that ‘jumps around’ her face.

Brandi Glanville, a 52-year-old former cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, shared that she has been hospitalized frequently due to her stress-induced angioedema. As a result, she has faced significant financial burdens related to her ongoing health issues.

After various medical appointments, multiple physicians told the reality star she could be suffering from a ‘parasite that jumps around [her] face.’

In a social media post, Glanville expressed her frustration with her condition, stating that she has spent a considerable amount of money seeking answers. Some doctors have suggested that she may have a parasite causing issues on her face, while others attribute it to stress-induced edema.

But Glanville had her own theory: ‘I personally say it’s Bravo,’ she alleged.

The blonde bombshell first sparked concern on Saturday when she shared an unrecognizable selfie displaying her facial skin disfigurement. 

According to the Mayo Clinic, angioedema is a reaction similar to hives that causes swelling in the deeper layers of skin, often around the face and lips.

However, she did not mention the condition in her post and simply wrote alongside her photo: ‘Sick it!’

In her selfie, she was barefaced and had her blonde hair pushed back with a pair of glasses atop her head.

Back in July, she also shared a photo of the severe facial swelling and said the skin condition is ‘why I’m miserable and depressed’ in a tweet.

‘I’m not even gonna share the picture of when it sinks in,’ she wrote on X, at the time.

‘Stress will kill you,’ she continued. ‘How is your wealth? Take care of yourself people, thank you Bravo. I couldn’t even work if I wanted to at this point.’

In January, she told Entertainment Tonight that the facial disfigurement started after the alleged incident with Caroline Manzo on Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.

‘I’ve had some health issues that have affected my ability to talk,’ she told the outlet earlier this year.

‘My ability to taste food, my face basically would swell up, like I would have anaphylactic shock, go into anaphylactic shock constantly and I saw seven doctors and their answer to it was it was stress-induced angioedema.’

After a tumultuous year, Glanville said her health deteriorated and her lips and face unexpectedly swelled up, accompanied by anaphylactic shock, in August for the first time.

Two months later, she said she was hospitalized as her condition worsened and her son had to call 911.

‘I was on the phone with Andy Cohen… and I was just given some very disappointing news and I couldn’t take it,’ she recalled. 

‘The stress just, my eyes swelled shut, my hands [swelled],’ she continued. 

‘I laid down before I fell down, but an ambulance came and I spent two days in the hospital, trying to figure out what’s wrong,’ she said. 

‘It’s affected every aspect of my life,’ she added. ‘Everyone’s like, “You look great.” I’m like, “I don’t feel like I should feel, I don’t look the way I used to look.”‘

She pointed to the stress brought on by accusations from the Real Housewives of New Jersey star alleging sexual misconduct. 

In an off-screen moment while filming the spinoff in Morocco earlier that same year, Manzo alleged Glanville groped her.

Glanville vehemently denied Manzo’s accusations and even claimed she was advised to remain silent about the incident. 

She also accused Bravo producers of fostering an unsafe work environment and encouraging excessive alcohol consumption during filming. 

‘Nothing happened, that’s all I can really say,’ she told the outlet. 

‘This false narrative has been going on for 10 months. It’s been the worst year of my life. Worse than my divorce.’