Brandi Glanville has revealed the full scope of a medical crisis that has left the former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star facing months of daily treatment and a bill that could reach $6,000 a month.
In an Instagram post Tuesday, Glanville said she has been diagnosed with highly resistant ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter with biofilm, Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), Demodex dermatitis and mononucleosis. She also has a “fungal ball” in her face that will require surgery, along with planned procedures to remove metals from old dental work and her breast implants.
“I’m finally ready to tell you what I’ve actually been fighting and to start sharing some of my worst moments leading up to finally getting diagnosed,” she wrote, posting a video montage documenting her decline.
The treatment plan is not brief or cheap. “I’m looking at 4-6 months of daily IV treatment,” Glanville wrote, adding that she has seen “very little improvement” so far despite the grind of the regimen. She has previously described receiving IV infusions for as long as 18 hours a day, treatments that have disrupted her sleep, eating and daily life.
The financial toll is landing on Glanville directly. She said the medical battle is expected to cost between $3,300 and $6,000 per month, and with her ability to work limited to her podcast, she says she’s unsure how she’ll manage.
“I’m not able to work right now other than my podcast and I honestly don’t know how I’m going to do this mentally or financially,” Glanville wrote.
She was blunt about what the ordeal has cost her physically and emotionally as well. “I just want this s— out of my body,” she wrote. “I want my health back. I want my life back. I want to feel like me again.”
Glanville also addressed criticism she anticipated over the raw footage of her illness. “I know I don’t look good in these videos,” she wrote. “Honestly, I don’t care. I feel terrible and this is what being sick looks like for me right now. So please be nice in the comments. I’m already fighting enough.”
A years-long search for answers
Glanville’s health troubles trace back to a 2023 trip to Morocco, after which she believed she had picked up a parasite. She suffered facial paralysis and was initially diagnosed with stress-induced angioedema, a condition the Mayo Clinic describes as a reaction similar to hives affecting deeper layers of skin. Her symptoms worsened rather than improved, and doctors at one point told her they weren’t certain a parasite was even the cause.
Glanville has said she spent more than $70,000 chasing a diagnosis before discovering in February that her 20-year-old ruptured breast implants were a contributing factor to her medical problems.
Her case underscores a reality familiar to many Americans navigating chronic or mysterious illness outside the confines of standard insurance coverage: years of out-of-pocket costs, competing diagnoses, and treatment bills that arrive long before a clear answer does.
