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“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville claims that she has a parasite residing in her face that has brought about her huge bodily ache and embarrassment for a year-and-a-half.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 52-year-old Bravo persona stated she’s spent tens of hundreds of {dollars} making an attempt to determine what was the reason for an odd, painful aberration on her face.
“Honestly, I’ve so many docs and I’ve had so many exams,” Glanville instructed the celeb information outlet. “I did lab work for $10,000.”
Though docs initially thought the pock-marking on the unique RHOBH solid member’s face may have been from dissolving fillers, she claimed she hadn’t had any accomplished in a very long time and that the outdated ones she’d gotten had already dissolved.
Originally identified with angioedema, a hive-like facial dysfunction that causes swelling below the pores and skin, one of many actuality star’s docs finally instructed she could have a parasite.
“That was, you understand, new,” Glanville recalled.
In a tweet posted just a few days earlier than the ET interview went reside, the controversial Californian referenced — and joked about — what was “happening” together with her face and well being.
“Some [doctors] say I’ve a parasite that jumps round my face,” Glanville tweeted. “Some say it is stress induced edema. I personally say it is Bravo.”
Along with being painful and inflicting excessive swelling, Glanville stated that the doable parasite appeared to trigger her problem talking. A rigorous course of antibiotics gave her some aid, nevertheless it was too costly to maintain up.
“I wished to give up [the medication] because it was like $2,000 every week,” she instructed ET. “I did it for six weeks and it’s again.”
Glanville remains to be unsure the place she obtained the alleged parasite, however she thinks it might need gotten into her pores and skin when she was filming a still-unaired season of “Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip” in Morocco in early 2023.
“We had meals sitting out for hours on finish and a few of it was meat, in Morocco,” the actual housewife instructed ET. “Six months after I obtained again from Morocco, I began having this talking factor and the swelling up factor, it began in July and we’re nonetheless right here making an attempt to determine it out.”
Having now spent roughly $70,000 on remedy and seen “each [type] of physician below the Sun,” Glanville stated the parasite nonetheless lives on in her face and can “leap” from one facet to the opposite “if it will get mad” from her touching it — and even claims to have video of it doing so.
“I’ve been on meds this complete 12 months,” she stated. “I don’t socialize, I don’t exit, and I’m simply spending all of my cash on making an attempt to determine what’s fallacious with me.”
It seems like a fairly freaky state of affairs certainly — although by the appears of her within the recorded interview, Glanville’s parasite appears to have calmed down for now.
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