We haven’t talked about Brandi Glanville in a minute, although she’s been in the news in recent years. She often spoke openly of a really tragic medical situation she’s been dealing with since 2023 – a facial parasite which basically wrecked her face and her skin. In the past year or so, she’s been getting back on her feet health-wise. She attended the Sundance Film Festival in recent days, and ahead of her appearance, she thanked her plastic surgeon for trying to repair her face after the parasite did so much damage.
Brandi Glanville is sharing a new development in her two-year-long health struggle that she says has been caused by a facial parasite. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 53, posted on Instagram on Sunday, Jan. 25, sharing a glimpse of the cosmetic procedure she recently underwent. The reality TV personality smiled in a selfie as she praised her plastic surgeon for helping her get ready for the Sundance Film Festival.
Glanville captioned her post: “Thank you Dr. Nicholas Nikolov the amazing CellSound and for preparing me for The Sundance Film festival & looking forward PBM Princess movie event at Kemo Sabe.”
Nikolov is the same plastic surgeon that Glanville worked with in December 2024, when she told Entertainment Tonight that she spent upwards of $70,000 trying to address the facial “parasite.” PEOPLE reached out to Dr. Nikolov for comment.
Glanville was one of several celebrities who attended the Jan. 24 screening of the documentary Side Effects May Include: The Hidden Costs of Prescription Drugs, produced by Rachel Strauss. The screening was hosted at Kemo Sabe in Park City, Utah.
The photo of Glanville comes amid her ongoing struggle with facial disfigurement, which she said began in July 2023. In recent years, the reality star has shared theories that a facial parasite is living just below her skin, causing her disfiguration. In her ET interview, Glanville said that she believes her health issues were caused by something she ate while filming the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco. She later claimed that she could see and feel the unknown “parasite” moving within her face if she “messes with it,” saying it resembled “tiny bubbles bursting” on her skin. “I feel like it’s s—ing or having babies in my face,” she said.
I remember seeing photos of Brandi when the parasite was doing the most damage to her face and it was awful. It brought up so many body-horror fears and it was crazy that so little could be done to help her in real time. Anyway, I have no idea what her plastic surgeon had to work with post-parasite but if she’s feeling better, so be it. She probably just feels lucky to have a face at this point.
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