{"id":171291,"date":"2025-12-07T01:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171291\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T01:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T01:18:15","slug":"real-housewives-star-brandi-glanville-gets-diagnosis-for-facial-disfigurement-previously-blamed-on-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171291\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives star Brandi Glanville gets diagnosis for facial disfigurement previously blamed on parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The health issue had turned Glanville into an introvert as the illness gave her \u201cthe worst anxiety\u201d when she left the house, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The reality television star\u2019s mother started crying when she called to give her the news, she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">She previously claimed a parasite she caught in Morocco while filming The Real Housewives caused the disfigurement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The Daily Mail reported she had spent over US$130,000 ($225,000) on treatment for the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">In August, she told magazine US Weekly she had \u201cexhausted\u201d her savings trying to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The 52-year-old told the outlet that same month that she had met infectious disease doctor Dr Michael Scoma in an attempt to treat the issue.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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. Thank you so much @DrScomaME_CFS for taking the time to meet with me and help me try to figure out what is going on inside. \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M7dm9Wgiwx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/M7dm9Wgiwx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brandi Glanville (@BrandiGlanville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandiGlanville\/status\/1956088143050105000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Glanville said she was \u201ca wreck\u201d but was trying to stay positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI always joke my life is like The Last of Us? I\u2019m just turning into one of those black mould people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat\u2019s how I felt. I have lumps on my face, and they\u2019re moving around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">In 2020, Glanville made headlines for her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/real-housewives-star-brandi-glanville-confesses-to-spraying-her-children-with-bleach-and-water\/V56IB4KEOLSHH7Q6R7Z6UEYOWI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/real-housewives-star-brandi-glanville-confesses-to-spraying-her-children-with-bleach-and-water\/V56IB4KEOLSHH7Q6R7Z6UEYOWI\/\"> hygiene and cleaning habits<\/a> during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">On her podcast Unfiltered she said: \u201cI spray bleach on my children &#8230; because you can\u2019t buy rubbing alcohol anywhere so I diluted some bleach and water and everyone gets a little spray spray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">She later clarified in a tweet that she sprayed the bottom of their shoes and not their faces.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The health issue had turned Glanville into an introvert as the illness gave her \u201cthe worst anxiety\u201d when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[110680,15382,110677,796,110679,156,103,2082,6276,110678,110681,21520,21635,111,139,69,90,51593,13910,6115,2737],"class_list":["post-171291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-beverly","tag-blamed","tag-brandi","tag-diagnosis","tag-disfigurement","tag-entertainment","tag-facial","tag-for","tag-gets","tag-glanville","tag-gotten","tag-hills","tag-housewives","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-parasite","tag-previously","tag-real","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}