Brandi Glanville Reveals How Much Money She Spent on Health Woes, Says Ex Eddie Cibrian Hasn't Shown 'Support'
Brandi Glanville is opening up about the financial toll her heath woes has had on her.
Over two years ago, the 53-year-old former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said that she had a “parasite” moving around her face that was making her look disfigured. At the time, she said that she had seen multiple doctors, but no one could figure out what was actually wrong with her.
After seeing more than a dozen doctors, Brandi finally learned that her ruptured breast implants were the cause of her health problems and making her “sick.”
In a new interview, Brandi revealed how much money she spent trying to figure out what was wrong with her, while also saying that she hasn’t received any “support” from her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian.
Keep reading to find out more… “I went to 21 doctors. I’m telling you, [it cost] $200,000. I had insurance but the people at my insurance, Kaiser let’s just say, sucks,” Brandi shared on the February 26 episode of the I Do, Part 2 podcast.
She went on to say that she was “paying out of pocket to see specialists, infectious disease doctors, rheumatologists,” adding, “Every doctor you can think of, I saw.”
Throughout her struggles, Brandi said that her mammograms were “fine,” so doctors didn’t believe that her breasts could be part of the problem.
“It came on overnight. I have weird lumps in my neck. … I still have them,” Brandi said of her onset of symptoms. “I can’t explain the brain fog. The fatigue.”
Brandi noted that all of her symptoms were on her left side and doctors later discovered through a sonogram that her right breast had “ruptured” and had “leaks” that resulted in “silicone in both my lymph nodes.”
Now that Brandi has taken out those implants, she’s feeling a lot better these days.
“I’m two weeks out right now, but the first week, I was, like, up,” she shared. “I was actually doing too much because I was so excited to be moving.”
Also in the interview, Brandi said that she’s been going through the health issues alone.
“My sons have been, they’re 18 and 22, so they’re grown,” Brandi said of her sons Mason and Jake, whom she shares with ex-husband Eddie Cibrian.
When asked if Eddie, 52, has come to “support” her throughout her health woes, Brandi answered “no.”
“He has not [shown support],” Brandi claimed. “But we are getting along and that’s all I can ask for. We are together on holidays.”
“I missed a few because I was ill and it sucked to not be with my boys,” she added. “I literally would lay in bed for four days straight.”
Brandi also alleged that Eddie‘s wife LeAnn Rimes has also not shown her much support.
“I mean, they have me over for the holidays,” Brandi said, after making a face when LeAnn‘s name was mentioned. “I talked to her at Christmas a little bit, but I hadn’t told anyone about my breasts yet.”
However, one of Brandi‘s sons did tell LeAnn about Brandi‘s breast implants, and she brought up it during a conversation.
“She’s like, ‘So it’s your breast implants?’ I’m like, ‘No,’ and I looked at Mason and he’s like, ‘What, she got it out of me,’” Brandi said with a laugh, joking she will “never” tell her son anything again.
Brandi also talked about the mental toll her health has taking on her, admitting that her confidence has taken a big hit.
“I haven’t had sex in three years, the whole time I’ve been sick, because I lost my confidence,” Brandi shared. “I feel like I lost everything at once. I lost my job. I lost my reputation. I lost my looks.”
She went on to call these past few years “dark times,” adding that she “isolated” herself from everyone but her sons.
“I’m still working on my confidence,” Brandi added. “It’s just a lot of — it seems silly — but as women, when you look good, you feel good.”
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