Brandi Glanville Makes 1st Public Appearance Amid Face Health Struggles

Brandi Glanville put her recent health struggles aside to celebrate the holiday season.

The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 52, showed off her healing face at her friend Amouranth’s Winter Wonderland birthday party in Burbank, California, on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. The event marked Glanville’s first public outing since revealing she’s suffering from what doctors believe is a facial parasitic infection.

Glanville sported a fuzzy leopard-print coat on the event’s red carpet before posing for pics inside the party with Twitch and OnlyFans streamer Amouranth, 31. Sporting a black mini dress and matching knee-high boots, the Bravolebrity accessorized her look with a festive red and leopard-print Santa hat.

Glanville rocked a natural glam makeup look and red lip for the birthday party. Her face appeared to be healing and improved compared to the selfie she shared earlier this month to announce she was battling an unknown skin issue.

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“Sick it!” she captioned the snap via X on December 7. In a follow-up tweet, she added: “What happened? I wish I knew. I’ve been in &out of the hospital this passed [sic] year 1/2 spent almost every dollar I have trying to figure it out. Some Dr.’s say I have a parasite that jumps around my face. Some say it’s stress-induced edema. I personally say it’s Bravo.”

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on December 10, Glanville said she has had “every test under the sun” done to figure out what the cause of her face condition is. “They’re like, ‘It could be a parasite.’ That’s, you know, new,” she shared.

Having “been on meds” for the past year, Glanville told the outlet she’s spent around $70,000 on trying to fix her skin issue. She also speculated she contracted the possible parasite while filming season 5 of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. (Glanville was accused of sexually harassing costar Caroline Manzo while filming the show — which has yet to air — in 2023. She has denied the allegations.)

“We had food sitting out for hours on end and some of it was meat. In Morocco,” she explained to ET, noting she began experiencing symptoms after filming had wrapped. “Six months after I got back from Morocco, I started having this speaking thing and the swelling up thing, it started in July and we’re still here trying to figure it out.”

Botched and Real Housewives of Orange County star Dr. Terry Dubrow later told TMZ that he did not believe a parasite was the issue, but suggested that Glanville get an official diagnosis sooner than later. “She’s like a ticking time bomb. Every minute that that microorganism is allowed to stay in her skin and do potential damage, she could suffer worse for it,” he told the outlet on December 12. “It could be more difficult to treat and she could form more scars and more nodules. So Brandi needs a diagnosis. She probably needs a surgical intervention to get a piece of tissue and figure out what’s going on.”

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One day later, Glanville told fans via X that she had “been in touch” with Dubrow, 66, and that “all the fillers that were in my face have been dissolved.”

Glanville described the feeling of her supposed facial parasite on Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast earlier this week, sharing: “Whenever I get the chills, it’s generally an infection. Then I start having the ticking in my ear, and then whatever’s in my face, moving around, started moving around again. And it starts sinking in again.”

Admitting that she’s unsure whether the issue is a parasite, she added: “I prefer [my face] when it’s a little swollen, to be honest. 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.”