Brandi Glanville shared a health update on her facial disfigurement situation and shared the whopping six-figure sum she spent to resolve her health issues.
The reality star, 52, said she found a potential solution on social media and shared photos of her transformed look after finding a new doctor.
This comes a week and a half after she burned her face with hair removal cream in a DIY attempt to fix her facial disfigurement.
She did not reveal her diagnosis but revealed she was working with an infectious disease immunology physician based in New York City.
On Friday, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum posted three photos posing with the doctor and said she found him after ‘screaming in my tweets asking for help.’
She later opened up about her mental health and financial struggles before admitting that, at one point, she ‘didn’t want to be here’ anymore.
Brandi Glanville shared a health update on her facial disfigurement situation. The reality star, 52, said she found a potential solution on social media and shared photos of her transformed look after finding a new doctor
She later opened up about her mental health and financial struggles. She said she hasn’t felt ‘normal’ in two years ever since her facial disfigurement journey started
‘They say Twitter is the devil but all it took was me screaming in my tweets asking for help for this lovely man to reach out,’ she wrote in her caption.
‘Thank you so much to Michael R. Scoma, M.D who specializes in infectious diseases for taking the time to meet with me and help me try to figure out what is going on inside,’ she continued.
Glanville shared a photo of herself with short hair, looking nearly unrecognizable after working with her new doctor.
She also posted two pictures of herself with longer hair, which appeared to be more recent after she got hair extensions, as she paid the doctor another visit for an IV. One photo showed the physician seemingly showing her how to administer the fluids herself.
Late last month, she shared another health update and said she was ‘finally getting answers’ amid her health crisis. She also said she couldn’t wait to ‘make out with a hot boy or girl’ as she thanked Dr. Scoma.
On the same day as her social media update, she opened up about her mental health and financial struggles amid her health journey.
While dealing with her facial disfigurement, she admitted she hit her lowest point and credited her children as her source of strength. ‘I’ve never felt suicidal before, [but earlier this summer], I didn’t want to be here,’ she told Us Weekly.
Glanville shared a photo of herself with short hair, looking nearly unrecognizable after working with her new doctor. She also posted two pictures of herself with longer hair, which appeared to be more recent after she got hair extensions, as she paid the doctor another visit for an IV
One photo showed the physician seemingly showing her how to administer the fluids herself
This comes a week and a half after she burned her face with hair removal cream in a DIY attempt to fix her facial disfigurement
‘And if it wasn’t for my kids, I don’t know that I would be here,’ she said while referring to her sons Mason and Jake, both of whom she shares with her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian.
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She also shared the details of Dr. Scoma’s multiphase treatment plan — ‘which kicks off with several weeks of intravenous antibiotics via a PICC line to treat her longstanding infection and its secondary effects.’
Glanville said she has seen 21 doctors so far and paid for several of them out of pocket when she couldn’t get answers from providers within her insurance. ‘They didn’t believe me. My insurance was like, “Nothing’s wrong with you. It’s just inflammation and old filler.”‘
She revealed she spent at least $130,000 on medical treatments and is now in debt.
She admitted she has ‘exhausted my savings’ and is ‘paying the minimum on my credit cards.’ Because she is ‘worrying about money all day long’ she said she started working with a healthcare strategist to avoid bankruptcy.
Amid her mental health struggles and financial troubles, she recalled asking her mom to ‘drop everything and [come visit] for a couple days,’ which was when she put hair removal cream on her face.
‘I was just going down every rabbit hole, and my face loved exfoliation. It was like, “OK, I’m gonna get whatever this is out.”
She recalled thinking at the time: ‘If Nair dissolves hair, maybe, it’ll dissolve whatever’s in my skin. And my mom’s like, “You do your Brandi.”
She revealed she spent at least $130,000 on medical treatments and is now in debt; pictured April 2024 in West Hollywood
She also shared the details of Dr. Scoma’s multiphase treatment plan — ‘which kicks off with several weeks of intravenous antibiotics via a PICC line to treat her longstanding infection and its secondary effects’
The reality TV personality first started posting about her health issues in 2023. She claimed she contracted a ‘flesh-eating parasite’ in her face from filming the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip
‘Like, when I was little, I used Comet on my teeth because I wanted white teeth. That’s just my idea. I’m a do-it-yourselfer. It doesn’t always work out.’
The reality TV personality first started posting about her health issues in 2023.
At the beginning of that year, she had joined the cast of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip for their fourth season in Morocco. However, in the midst of filming in Morocco, she was accused of sexual misconduct by her co-star Caroline Manzo. Glanville has denied the claims.
After her exit from the show and returning home, Glanville discovered she had contracted a parasite while filming.
Reflecting the state of her mental health at that time, she said: ‘I immediately took on a ton of anxiety.
‘I was on the couch in a fetal position for four months,’ she recalled before adding that shortly afterwards, ‘crazy lumps’ started forming on her face.
‘My face started, like, moving around and doing things. I started to lose my eyesight in my left eye. It’s insane. At first, my face was blowing up and getting really swollen. Then it started sinking in, and I felt like something was just eating me from the inside. I’m like, “It’s eating my flesh.”
Over the past two years, she said she dealt with gray spots on her ‘sunken-in’ face, as well as ‘fluid that comes out of her left ear or drains into her mouth and extreme headaches.’