By JENNIFER PEARSON and SAMEER SURI, SHOWBUSINESS US SENIOR REPORTER
Brandi Glanville’s recent surgery to remove leaking and ruptured breast implants may have spared her pain and misery, or worse.
Shocking new pictures show the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member heading into surgery to correct a problem that has plagued her for three years and caused a horrific facial disfigurement.
One photo showed the frail reality star, 53, being led into a room by medical staff holding her bag. She wore a green hospital gown with a blanket thrown over her shoulders and her blonde hair covered by a surgical cap.
Another image featured Glanville – who defended Jill Zarin after the star’s racist remarks at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime led to her firing – in a garage being pushed by two medical professionals, although it was unclear if she was going into surgery or just coming out of it. She appeared fully relaxed and her legs dangled over the end of the moving table, dressed in gray stockings.
More gruesome images showed the gross, ripped and ripped remains of Glanville’s breast implant in the surgeon’s hands.
New, smaller implants were placed during the same surgery in which her old ones were removed.
Brandi Glanville’s recent surgery to remove leaking and ruptured breast implants may have saved her a lifetime of pain and misery or worse, and now new photos of the delicate procedure have emerged
Shocking new pictures show the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum at a medical facility where she underwent surgery to correct a problem that had plagued her for three years and caused a horrific facial disfigurement
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Ourian was pictured holding one of the new implants up to the light during an apparent inspection.
The new photo comes a few days later Inside Edition aired a segment featuring Glanville’s breast implant removal surgery.
Glanville revealed that her facial disfigurement was actually the result of damaged breast implants that led to an infection.
She previously insisted her features were disfigured by “parasites” she caught in Morocco in 2023 while filming The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club 2.
Glanville spent over $130,000 trying to fix the problem, at one point trying to treat herself with hair removal cream and burning her face in the process.
However, last summer he revealed that he had consulted infectious disease immunologist Michael R. Scoma in New York and may have found a solution.
Although he did not reveal the diagnosis he gave her, he proudly posted photos of her in his office with her face in dramatically better shape.
She then discovered the real source of the problem was a breast augmentation she underwent in 2007. She went under the knife again to have the implants removed in what Inside Edition called “life-saving surgery.”
Glanville, 53, was led into a room by medical staff holding her IV bag
The Bravo star’s hair was covered by a surgical cap and she hugged a blanket around her for warmth
“Brandi’s case is very complicated. He has a ruptured implant. I don’t really know what I’m going to find when I go in there,” said Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ariel Urian.
“It’s torn, it’s torn, and this is actually a lot worse than I expected,” Dr. Ourian said of Glanville’s ruptured breast implant.
Dr. Ourian removed the tangled pieces of the breast implant and aspirated the silicone that had leaked from Glanville’s body
Dr. Ourian gave Glanville a set of “fresh, new implants” and predicted she would be “really happy” with the results, which included “less risk of rupture.”
She explained that she “definitely had a parasite,” but her implants were also “completely ruptured” so that she “had silicone all over my lymph nodes,” via TMZ.
The silicone was “what caused the infection in my face and it couldn’t come out because my lymph nodes were all blocked,” according to Glanville.
“I had a complete rupture on the right. Full leak on the left,” she told Inside Edition ahead of her implant removal. “I feel petrified.”
By that stage she had started wearing a hat because her illness had caused her to start losing her hair, “especially on the left side”, she noted.
As soon as he arrived at the medical institution of Dr. Urian on what he called “Surgery Day,” said, “Thank God he’s here.”
“Brandi’s case is very complicated. He has a ruptured implant. I don’t really know what I’m going to find when I go in there,” Dr. Urian confessed.
During the operation – which involved so much that Dr. Urian had to change gloves part way through – he extracted the broken remains of the blast implant and then suctioned up the silicone that had escaped.
“It’s torn, it’s torn, and this is actually a lot worse than I expected,” Dr. Ourian said, before noting that the other implant was “intact.”
Unfiltered host Brandi Glanville said the leaking silicone was “what caused the infection in my face and it couldn’t come out because my lymph nodes were all blocked.”
She spent over $130,000 trying to fix the problem, at one point even trying to treat herself with hair removal cream and burning her face in the process
As soon as he arrived at the offices of Dr. Ourian in Beverly Hills on what he called “Surgery Day,” he said, “Thank God he’s here.”
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He gave her a set of “fresh, new implants” and predicted she would be “really happy” with the results, which included “less risk of rupture.”
A week after surgery, Glanville noticed that “my joints are different. I can sit down. I can get up right away. I don’t need to massage my neck all day. I have been isolated for three years. It was hell and now I want to live my life again. I’m ready.’
After the procedure, Glanville shared that she was “shocked, because honestly, I’ve had my implants for almost 20 years. They looked fine. They felt good. The mammogram said she was fine. Until I had an ultrasound – I was like, “Maybe I should get that checked too. Why not? I’ve checked everything else.” I went to 21 doctors and spent so much money.’
The Bravo star noted that “there’s such a thing as breast implant disease, and you really have to change your breast implants at 10 years, and I just didn’t. I’m like, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So I learned a really, really hard lesson.”
