TV star looks unrecognisable after sharing shocking new snap of painful health condition
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville looked unrecognisable in a recent selfie after opening up about her health condition. The TV personality bravely shared a snap of her swollen face after revealing last year that she had been diagnosed with stress-induced angioedema.
In the snap posted on X, Brandi, 52, went make-up free as she showed off the realities of living with the condition. In the selfie, the former model used her glasses to scrape her hair away from her face as she revealed a series of swollen patches on her skin. Captioning the snap, she wrote: “Sick it!”.
In response to the selfie, fans of Brandi flocked to the comments to show their support for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star. “Aww Brandi, I hope you are on the other side of whatever is going on. And on the mends. Prayers!,” wrote one.
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“Awwww brandi….im sooooo sorry….you’ve had nothing but hardships… sending all prayers for you…you’ll come back girl and smash it just watch,” another added. “Brandi, you are SO BRAVE to post this…truly,” said a third.
Meanwhile a fourth commented: “Brandi, this just breaks my heart for you I'll definitely be keeping you in my prayers.. Love ya.”
Back in January Brandi spoke to Entertainment Tonight about living with the condition and revealed that it had affected her ability to talk and taste. “I've had some health issues that have affected my ability to talk. My ability to taste food, my face basically would swell up, like I would have anaphylactic shock, go into anaphylactic shock constantly and I saw 7 doctors and their answer to it was it was stress-induced angioedema,” she said.
According to the NHS, angioedema is a condition where a part of the body suddenly becomes swollen. As is the case in Brandi’s latest snap, the face is commonly affected, though it often affects the hands and feet too. In rarer cases, the throat can swell up and cause breathing problems and become a medical emergency.
Treatment isn’t always needed for angioedema when the swelling is mild or restricted to a small part of the body. However, if the swelling is more severe, covers a large area or affects the lips, tongue or throat, treatment is usually required, and this can look like figuring out and avoiding the underlying causes, taking antihistamine medicine or being given steroid tablets.
