Brandi Glanville has revealed that her facial disfigurement was actually the result of damaged breast implants that led to an infection.
She previously insisted her features were deformed by ‘parasites’ she caught in Morocco in 2023 filming The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club 2.
Glanville spent over $130,000 to try to fix the issue, at one point even trying to cure herself with hair removal cream and burning her face in the process.
However last summer she revealed she had consulted infectious disease immunology physician Michael R. Scoma in New York City and possibly found a solution.
Although she did not disclose the diagnosis he gave her, she proudly posted photos of herself in his office with her face in dramatically better condition.
Now, however, she has discovered the real source of the problem was a breast augmentation she underwent 18 years ago, and so she has gone under the knife again to have the implants taken out in what Inside Edition called ‘life-saving surgery.’
Brandi Glanville has revealed that her facial disfigurement was actually the result of ruptured breast implants that led to an infection
Now she has gone under the knife again to have the implants taken out by Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Ourian, as seen on Inside Edition
She explained that she ‘definitely had a parasite,’ but her implants were also ‘completely ruptured’ such that she ‘had silicone all over my lymph nodes,’ via TMZ.
The silicone was ‘what caused the infection in my face, and it couldn’t get out because my lymph nodes were all clogged,’ according to Glanville.
‘I had a complete rupture on the right. A complete leak on the left,’ she said on Inside Edition in the run-up to her implant removal. ‘I’m feeling petrified.’
By that stage she had taken to wearing a hat because her illness had caused her to start losing hair, ‘especially on the left side,’ she observed.
Once she arrived at the offices of Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Ourian on what he called ‘Surgery Day,’ she said: ‘Thank God it’s here.’
‘Brandi’s case is really complicated. She has a ruptured implant. I don’t really know what I’m gonna find when I get in there,’ Dr. Ourian confessed.
Over the course of the operation – which was so involved that Dr. Ourian had to change gloves part of the way through – he extracted the mangled remains of the burst implant and then suctioned out the escaped silicone.
‘It is torn, it is ripped and this is actually much worse than I expected,’ Dr. Ourian said, before noting that the other implant was ‘intact.’
Over the course of the operation he extracted the mangled remains of the burst implant and then suctioned out the escaped silicone
Once she arrived at the offices of Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Ourian on what he called ‘Surgery Day,’ she said: ‘Thank God it’s here’
‘I had a complete rupture on the right. A complete leak on the left,’ she said on Inside Edition in the run-up to her implant removal: ‘I’m feeling petrified’
He gave her a set of ‘fresh, new implants’ and predicted she would be ‘really happy’ with the results, which included a ‘lower risk of rupture.’
A week after the surgery, Glanville observed that ‘my joints are different. I can sit down, I can get up right away. I don’t have to massage my neck all day long. I’ve been isolating for three years. It’s been hell and now I want to live my life again. I’m ready.’
After the procedure, Glanville shared that she was ‘shocked, because honestly, my implants I’ve had for 20 years almost. They looked fine. They felt fine. The mammogram said they were fine. It wasn’t until I had a sonogram – I was just feeling like: “Maybe just check that too. Why not? I’ve checked everything else.” I went to 21 doctors and I spent so much money.’
The Bravo star noted that ‘there is such a thing as breast implant illness and you really should change your breast implants out at 10 years, and I just didn’t do it. I’m like, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. So I learned a really, really hard lesson.’
As she tries to fix the damage, Glanville is now availing herself of the services of two Beverly Hills plastic surgeons, Dr. Robert G. Dorfman and Dr. Ourian.
‘Well, honestly I’m not getting plastic surgery,’ she said. ‘Dr. Dorfman is doing like lasers and different things because it sucks to age 20 years overnight. And then Dr. Ariel Ourian took my breast implants out just recently.’
Although she feels in fine fettle, Dr. Ourian has been urging her: ‘Rest,’ to which she retorted: ‘I can’t rest! I’ve been home for three years!’
Glanville also disclosed that she ‘had a bunch of teeth pulled. I have to get that fixed. I feel like a hillbilly walking around with no teeth, but what are you gonna do?’
Her current upbeat disposition comes at the end of a crisis that took such a toll on her health and finances she at one stage ‘didn’t want to be here’ any longer; pictured April 2024
She spent over $130,000 to try to fix the issue, at one point even trying to cure herself with hair removal cream and burning her face in the process
Her advice vis-a-vis breast implants is: ‘I’m not saying don’t do it. Just do it and make sure you stay on top of it, and mammograms can actually rupture your breast implant. So you really have to be vigilant about – get sonograms, ask your doctor.’
Glanville’s current upbeat disposition comes at the end of a crisis that took such a toll on her health and finances she at one stage ‘didn’t want to be here’ any longer.
She was able to achieve her stunning turnaround last summer after visiting Dr. Scoma, who contacted her when he read her distraught tweets about her situation.
In the middle of August, she triumphantly posted an Instagram photo of herself showing off her restored features in Dr. Scoma’s office as he stood nearby.
‘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 the caption.
She had revealed in late July that she was being treated by Dr. Scoma, explaining that she was ‘finally getting answers,’ expressing her gratitude for her physician’s help and saying she was excited to ‘make out with a hot boy or girl.’
Before she met the doctor who finally led her to whatever her solution was, her health downturn resulted in a mad scramble to see how she could fix her face.
Glanville at one point consulted Botched host Dr. Terry Dubrow – the husband of Real Housewives of Orange County star Heather Dubrow – who disagreed with her theory that her deformity was the result of ‘parasites.’
However this summer she revealed she had gone to infectious disease immunology physician Michael R. Scoma in New York City, and in August she debuted her new face online (pictured)
However he shared he was ‘concerned’ she could be the victim of either an ‘infectious process’ or a ‘foreign-body reaction to something she’s had injected.’
In the course of trying to restore her face to normality, she hemorrhaged $130,000, visited more than 20 doctors and plunged into medical debt.
‘My insurance was like, “Nothing’s wrong with you. It’s just inflammation and old filler,”‘ she said in August, adding that the doctors also did not ‘believe’ her about the ‘crazy lumps’ that had been afflicting her face.
‘I’m paying the minimum on my credit cards. I’ve exhausted my savings,’ said Glanville, who shares her sons Mason, 22, and Jake, 18, with her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian, who infamously left her for his current wife LeAnn Rimes.
‘At my age, I feel like such a loser in a way, because I was taking care of everything. I was together. I had great credit. Now I’m scared about every little thing.’
In order to try and contest some of the charges her insurance refused to pick up, she enlisted the services of healthcare strategist Rachel Strauss, who calls herself the PBM Princess, with the acronym standing for Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
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