Brandi Glanville is ready for her close-up after a years-long struggle with what she has described as a face parasite.
Glanville, 53, shared a new Instagram photo on Sunday, January 25, after undergoing a cosmetic procedure. The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star was seen beaming in the snap, which also features healthcare strategist Rachel Strauss.
“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,” Glanville captioned the post.
Later on Sunday, the reality television star was pictured on the red carpet at Sundance in Park City, Utah, for the premiere of Strauss’ new documentary, Side Effects May Include.
Glanville smiled for the cameras while wearing a long cream-colored coat, a black fur hat and matching stole.
The red carpet moment comes after Glanville told TMZ in December 2025 that she had finally gotten to the bottom of her long-running health issues.
In an interview last month, Glanville said that she had received a diagnosis the day before, though she did not divulge the exact cause of her facial disfigurement to the outlet.
Glanville has been regularly documenting her health issues over the last couple of years.
In a December 2024 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Glanville said she believes her issues began after filming The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco in early 2023.
“We had food sitting out for hours on end and some of it was meat. In Morocco,” she said at the time. “Six months after I got back from Morocco, I started having this speaking thing and the swelling up thing, it started in July and we’re still here trying to figure it out.”
Glanville further told the outlet that she had spent over $70,000 trying to get to the bottom of her facial disfigurement.
“Honestly, I have so many doctors and I’ve had so many tests … I did lab work for $10,000,” she said. “I ran every test under the sun … They’re like, ‘It could be a parasite.’ That’s, you know, new.”
At the time, Glanville said she had “been on meds this whole year” and that her health condition had affected her social life.
“I’m just spending all my money on trying to figure out what’s wrong with me,” she said.
That same month, Glanville described feeling the suspected parasite moving around under her skin.
“Whenever I get the chills, it’s generally an infection,” she told Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea,” adding, “Then I start having the ticking in my ear, and then whatever’s in my face, moving around, started moving around again. And it starts sinking in again.”
In August 2025, Glanville exclusively told Us Weekly that she had enlisted the help of an infectious disease doctor, Dr. Michael Scoma, to deal with an infection caused by the parasite.
“I always joke my life is like The Last of Us. I’m just turning into one of those black mold people,” Glanville told Us. “That’s how I felt. I have lumps on my face and they’re moving around.”
She continued, “Dr. Michael Scoma said he wouldn’t know if there was a parasite or not, because he didn’t treat me early on. But if there was, it would have been gone by now. A lot of this infection, in this deep tissue — the staph infection, and there’s other problems happening — it mimics a parasite. It has this fluid that jumps around your face because it’s spreading.”
