Brandi Glanville is pictured having leaking implants removed
Brandi Glanville had to endure surgery to remove leaking and ruptured breast implants that had plagued her for years and caused facial disfigurement.
One published image showed the gooey, torn and ripped remnants of Glanville's breast implant in the surgeon's hands.
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Ariel Ourian was also pictured holding up one of the new implants into the light.
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Out there: Brandi Glanville been seen in new photos from the delicate procedure
Tough: The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star has endured three years of problems
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 deformed by 'parasites' she caught in Morocco in 2023 filming The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club 2.
Glanville spent over $130,000 to try to fix the issue, at one point even trying to cure herself with hair removal cream and burning her face in the process.
However last summer she revealed she had consulted infectious disease immunology physician Michael R Scoma in New York City and possibly found a solution.
Although she did not disclose the diagnosis he gave her, she proudly posted photos of herself in his office with her face in better condition.
Then she 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 taken out in what Inside Edition called 'life-saving surgery.'
Help: She was guided into a room by a medical staffer holding her IV bag
Treatment: Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr Ariel Ourian inspected the problem
Not good: Dr Ourian said Glanville's ruptured breast implant was in awful condition
Procedure: Dr Ourian suctioned out the leaked silicone from her body
Replacement: Dr Ourian gave Glanville a set of 'fresh, new implants'
She explained that she 'definitely had a parasite,' but her implants were also 'completely ruptured' such 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 get out because my lymph nodes were all clogged,' according to Glanville.
'I had a complete rupture on the right. A complete leak on the left,' she said on Inside Edition in the run-up to her implant removal. 'I'm feeling petrified.'
By that stage she had taken to wearing a hat because her illness had caused her to start losing hair, 'especially on the left side,' she observed.
Once she arrived at Dr Ourian’s medical establishment on what he called 'Surgery Day,' she said: 'Thank God it's here.'
'Brandi's case is really complicated. She has a ruptured implant. I don't really know what I'm gonna find when I get in there,' Dr Ourian confessed.
Over the course of the operation he extracted the mangled remains of the burst implant and then suctioned out the escaped silicone.
It is torn, it is ripped and this is actually much worse than I expected,' Dr Ourian said, before noting that the other implant was 'intact.'
Looking ahead: Brandi was comforted before the surgery
Positive: She is on her way to reclaiming her health after a few difficult years
He gave her a set of 'fresh, new implants' and predicted she would be 'really happy' with the results, which included a 'lower risk of rupture.'
A week after the surgery, Glanville observed that 'my joints are different. I can sit down. I can get up right away. I don't have to massage my neck all day long. I've been isolating for three years. It's been hell and now I want to live my life again. I'm ready.'
After the procedure, Glanville shared that she was 'shocked, because honestly, my implants I've had for 20 years almost. They looked fine.
They felt fine. The mammogram said they were fine. It wasn't until I had a sonogram - I was just feeling like: "Maybe just check that too. Why not? I've checked everything else." I went to 21 doctors and I spent so much money.'
She noted that 'there is such a thing as breast implant illness and you really should change your breast implants out at 10 years, and I just didn't do it. I'm like, if it's not broke, don't fix it. So, I learned a really, really hard lesson.'
