‘Real Housewives’ Star Brandi Glanville Shares Update On Face-Deforming ‘Parasite’

In an update to share her ongoing illness, Real Housewives star Brandi Glanville posted on social media about the origin of the affliction, which has scarred her face.

“OK, so about five years ago, the boys and I had black mold poisoning from a toxic house we lived in. We got a six-figure settlement, but this is crazy!” Glanville shared in a caption that accompanied a 26-second video of Glanville violently shaking. “I’m on my lymphatic drainage machine.” The reality star is referring to the process that reduces swelling, aids in circulation and helps with weight loss.

“There we go. Wow. It’s like a f—ing thing. I will shake for the rest of my life if this gets [them] out of my body,” Glanville said, closing out the post with a rallying cry, “[Terry Dubrow] Let’s get this f—er.”

Terry Dubrow, a celebrity plastic surgeon, recently offered his services to Glanville to find a diagnosis and cure her ailment that has been plaguing her health for months. Glanville revealed in an interview that Dubrow took four small biopsies from her face and neck, and the diagnosis was stress-induced angioedema diagnosis.

Glanville claimed that her health problems began in August 2023. “It’s affected every aspect of my life. My boyfriend and I broke up, and I can’t pucker my top lips still because it swelled up so much. It would swell up and go down, swell up and down, and now I can’t kiss. It is hard to talk because the inside of my mouth gets swollen.

When she first noticed symptoms, Glanville attributed the diagnosis to the impact controversy surrounding her participation in an unaired of Bravo’s The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. In December 2024, Glanville then attributed it as a parasite resulting from improperly stored food while on the show. She later accused Bravo boss Andy Cohen of sexual harassment.