Reality TV Star Battles Mystery Illness After Morocco Trip

"Six months after returning from [filming in] Morocco, I started having this swelling problem, it started in July and we’re still here trying to figure it out," Brandi Glanville told Brice Sander of Entertainment Tonight (ET). She had participated in the filming of season 4 of the reality TV series "The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip" in Marrakech in 2023. The cause of this health problem was food she would have consumed in Morocco. "We ate fruits and meat that had been left out for a long time," she recounted.

Last year, she consulted several specialists during 2024, took antibiotics for several weeks and other medications. She says she spent more than $70,000 to get treatment, but she continues to suffer. In December, the former model shared an image of her swollen face during the summer on X. "What happened?, she questioned. I wish I had known that I had been hospitalized several times over the past year and that I had spent almost all my money trying to figure it out. [...] Some doctors say I have a parasite jumping around my face. Others say it’s edema from stress. [...]".

The only hypothesis: it would be a parasite that has lodged itself in the face of the American star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. "When I touch certain areas, it jumps to the other side," she explained in the interview with ET. She believes the parasite lives in her left cheekbone and in the fold of her left cheek. "It goes to the other side if I bother it," she specified. And to add: "When I press certain areas of my face, like his temple, I hear like little bubbles. I feel like it’s moving or making babies in my face".

For more than a year and a half, Glanville says she has no longer practiced her profession because of the parasite she is suffering from.