For two years, 53-year-old Brandi Glanville has been battling ill health. The results are serious facial disfigurement due to an infection. She was left completely in the dark as to the cause, and it was only revealed recently that it had started due to a previous surgery she had undergone, which was not maintained.
Now Brandi Glanville has come forward and explained the cause of her disfigurement. She told TMZ that a ruptured breast implant was to blame. It had burst, leaking silicone throughout her body, blocking essential nodes. This then led to a parasite attacking her body and causing an infection in her face, changing her appearance drastically.
According to Glanville, the burst breast implant blocked her lymph nodes. This, she stated, prevented the parasite from escaping, resulting in three years of ill health and confusion. In the years since the infection began, she claimed that she had visited 21 doctors, and none of them had come up with an answer. It wasn’t until she had a sonogram that they spotted the ruptured breast implant.
Throughout her years struggling with her health and the parasite in her face, she had had mammograms, but not seen anything wrong. She was told, when she first had breast surgery, to have the implants changed every ten years. But, as she told TMZ, “I just didn’t do it. I thought, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it, but I learned a really, really hard lesson.”
The ruptured breast implant caused an unexpected complication, and the result was a painfully disfigured face for Glanville. She said that she could feel it under her skin, and it felt like “tiny bubbles bursting” on her skin. Now, she is undergoing treatment to hopefully return her face to how it was before the parasite attacked her.
However, she won’t be undergoing surgery this time to try to fix any leftover damage. Instead, she will be relying on lasers and other alternative methods. She hopes others will learn from her mistake. The Housewives star has spoken about the regret she has for not heeding the doctor’s advice and encourages other women with breast implants to get theirs checked and replace them as often as they are told.
After years of struggling with an unknown, disfiguring parasite, Real Housewives Brandi Glanville can finally start to feel like her old self again. She has issued a stark warning to others who feel like they could skip medical advice after plastic surgery, using her own struggle as a prime example.