Reality TV star Brandi Glanville has been extremely candid about the serious issue that left her face disfigured, but she may have been a little too candid in her latest heath update.<\/p>\n
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member has suffered from both poor mental and physical health as a result of the ringworm infections, which began in late 2024 \u2013 costing her five teeth and well over $100,000 to fix.<\/p>\n
53-year-old Glanville has said that it \u2018felt like something was just eating me from the inside\u2019, then she started to see \u2018crazy lumps\u2019 appear on her face. But after being dismissed as a botched plastic surgery patient, she eventually learned that she was living with an unusual infection.<\/p>\n
She shared more information about her terrifying health journey, as well as its sexual source, while speaking to AVN Hall of Fame pornstar Lisa Ann on the latest episode of her Brandi Unfiltered podcast.<\/p>\n
Brandi Glanville asked award-winning pornstar Lisa Ann for advice (Michael Stewart\/Getty)
\nWith her trademark candor, Glanville asked the sex specialist: \u201cI have a quick question. Have you heard about sexually transmitted ringworm?\u201d Adding that she thinks she \u2018may have it.\u2019<\/p>\n
The former model said that she believes her initial infection took place \u2018in my throat\u2019 while she was having sexual intercourse with a former partner, who just so happened to also work in porn.<\/p>\n
Ringworm is a fungal issue that is normally only transferred via skin-to-skin contact, with it primarily affecting certain parts of the body like nails, feet, and well, groins. Activities like \u2018wrestling\u2019 can be a vector for transmission.<\/p>\n
But even though infections can spread from close proximity to another person, most people wouldn\u2019t even know how to spot it.<\/p>\n
Ann, 54, noted: \u201cIt\u2019s one of these things that most people don\u2019t know what to look for.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to train our makeup artists that when a new member of talent would show up, they would have to get naked in a window where there\u2019s good light and they would inspect their body to see if they see any patches because it\u2019s incredibly contagious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glanville admitted that the person she believes may have given her the fungal infection was actually someone who also \u2018worked in the industry\u2019 that Ann works in.<\/p>\n
Doing her characteristic TMI explanation, she explained that her unnamed partner would always finish in her mouth, saying: \u201cHe would only, you know, my face because he didn\u2019t want to get me pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cHe didn\u2019t know that ship had sailed. I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, whatever, I\u2019m not going to correct you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Glanville did not even realise until recently that sexually transmitted ringworm may be the reason she developed the mysterious condition that had a major impact on her physical appearance.<\/p>\n
She told Ann: \u201c[Then] my girlfriend told me about it yesterday. I knew nothing about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
This made her look further into this kind of ringworm infection, after her doctors had ruled out just about every other form of sexually transmitted disease. And what she found out\u2026 well Glanville probably wishes she had stayed off Google.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can apparently \u2026 burrow in, like, if it\u2019s in your throat,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it\u2019s in your throat, they can burrow deep into your ears and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reality TV star Brandi Glanville has been extremely candid about the serious issue that left her face disfigured, but she may have been a little<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}