Brandi Glanville has made countless trips to doctors and spent eye-watering sums trying to figure out the cause of her facial disfigurement, which has rapidly deteriorated in the last 12 months.

The Californian former model sparked concern when she posted a selfie on Twitter on Sunday (December 8) where fans said she looked completely unrecognizable.

The 52-year-old said she suspects a ‘parasite’ took hold of her when filming the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco, and she can ‘feel’ it moving around under her skin.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, she said six months after she got back home, she started to have ‘this speaking thing and the swelling up thing’.

Now, it looks ‘like tiny bubbles bursting’ and Brandi horrified fans when she said she can feel the parasite ‘jumping’ from one side to the other – and even ‘s***ing or having babies in my face’.

The author also explained she posted the snap to put false rumours to bed.

Brandi said: “I’m so sick of the narrative that I’m sitting around having plastic surgery all the time. First of all, I couldn’t afford it if I wanted it. Secondly, no.”

“This is why I’m sitting at home”, she continued, “This is why I’m not on red carpets. Because I don’t want to go out like this.”

The star shocked fans with the snap (Twitter/@BrandiGlanville)

Brandi has also lost nearly half a dozen teeth, which she told the US Sun started from a bout of stress-induced angioedema.

To add insult to injury, medics are yet to come up with a formal diagnosis and she’s forked out more than $70,000 in the process.

Brandi said: “Honestly, I have so many doctors and I’ve had so many tests. I did lab work for $10,000. They ran every test under the sun. They’re like, ‘It could be a parasite that’s new’.”

Any treatments she’s had to date have only served to be a temporary fix and not a long-term solution.

The television personality admitted she’s become ‘stressed’ juggling medical bills while being out of work.

Understandably, her health issues have also taken a toll on her confidence and her social life.

The famous housewife looks completely unrecognizable (Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)

She continued: “I’ve been on meds this whole year. I don’t socialize. I don’t go out and I’m just spending all of my money on trying to figure out what’s wrong with me.

“Everyone thinks I’m so tough but I’m fragile right now. It’s a very fragile time for me. I don’t remember a day when I haven’t cried. So leave me the f**k alone.”

After several trips to the doctors, Brandi said she’s not getting her hopes up for a diagnosis any time soon but said it would be ‘amazing’ just to have an answer.

She said: “This is a horrible thing to say but even if it’s like a tumor, I want to know. Honestly, health is wealth and that’s all I want.”

In Tucson, Arizona, a man presented his seemingly unassuming blanket to the antiques expert, Donald Ellis, on the PBS program and was left stunned by what he had to say.

The guest, called Ted Kuntz, explained he didn’t know ‘an awful lot’ about the blanket, other than it was given as a gift from the notable 19th century fur-trapper and explorer, Kit Carson, to the foster father of his grandmother.

Donald asked Ted if he knew the origins of the ‘weaving’ or if he knew what kind of blanket it is.

The man said he hadn’t had anyone assess the materials before and shrugged saying: “It’s probably a Navajo, but that’s about all I know.”

He guessed the blanket perhaps belonged to a chief.

Visibly excited by the find, Donald, who founded a renowned gallery in the field of historical Native American art, then asked Ted: “Did you notice when you showed this to me that I kind of stopped breathing a little bit?

“I’m still having a little trouble breathing here, Ted.”

The appraiser went on to say it was much more than a chief’s blanket, explaining it is ‘the first type’ of a Ute chief’s blanket ever made, in about 1840 to 1860.

Donald couldn’t contain his excitement with the find (YouTube/Antiques Roadshow PBS)

Donald said the ‘pure’ design of the fabric indicates it was dated at the beginning of Navajo weaving, with ‘valuable’ indigo dyes and hand-woven wool that is done with such skill it feels ‘like silk’ and repels water.

The expert then pointed out a small patchwork, which he said dated to the 1860s, having been repaired with raveled bayetta, and making it ‘extremely rare’.

Donald added: “They were very, very valuable at the time.”

But what value did he give the precious item at the time Ted appeared on the show in 2001?

Well, the pro said the blanket is in ‘unbelievably’ good condition and not only made for an ‘extraordinary piece of art’, but the greatest thing he’d seen on Antiques Roadshow.

He teased by asking Ted if he was a ‘wealthy man’ before admitting he was nervous to reveal the textile’s value, which he estimated to be $350,000 ‘on a really bad day’, to a whopping half a million dollars.

The revelation visibly shocked Ted, who said choking back tears that he had ‘no idea’ it could be worth so much as the blanket had been discarded, ‘laying on the back of a chair’.

Donald said: “You have a national treasure.

“When you walked in with this, I just about died.”

The man was moved to tears (YouTube/Antiques Roadshow PBS)

And that’s not including if they could prove Kit Carson’s connection to the Navajo blanket, which could increase the value by 20 percent.

Wiping away tears, the guest said: “Wow. My grandmother, you know, were poor farmers. There was no wealth in the family.

“Boy, I can’t believe it.

“I’m amazed and flabbergasted.”

Amazingly, the value of the blanket was estimated to be in the region of $750,000 to $1million as of 2016.

The heartwarming scene is considered by fans as one of the ‘all time classic Roadshow moments’, while PBS has lauded it as one of the show’s most valuable objects it ever appraised.

Ted later revealed to AZPM that the blanket was sold to anonymous buyer who donated it to The Detroit Institute of Arts – and he lived out his retirement a bit more comfortably.

In 2016, Kali Hardig – who was 12 years old at the time – was left fighting for her life after contracting parasitic meningitis, a rare infection caused by brain-eating amoebas.

It’s believed Kali developed the parasite after swimming at a waterpark and, despite having a less than one percent of survival, the young girl lived to tell the tale.

Kali’s mother hailed it a ‘miracle’ that the girl survived the ordeal when speaking to CNN at the time.

As to what helped the young girl survive the ordeal, her doctors were able to get what was then a new experimental anti-amoeba drug straight from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Since then, a horrifying simulation has been created and shared to YouTube to demonstrate what happened when a brain-eating parasite burrowed into a young girl after entering her body via her nose.

The now-viral video – which has been viewed over 2.5 million times in just 24 hours – doesn’t name Kali as the person it’s based on, but the situations are very similar.

In the clip, it explains that the parasite entered the girl’s brain after she jumped into a pool and it then ‘burrowed into her brain, destroying tissue and causing swelling’.

Symptoms the girl in the video had included a headache, high fever and projectile vomiting, which started the day after she’d been swimming.

Then she was placed in a coma for 22 days, but a rare drug saved her.

While she survived the ordeal, it left the girl having to relearn to walk, talk and swim again.

“She is a fighter for enduring all of it and surviving,” someone said. “Swimming again after rehabilitation only makes her a legend.”

“It’s crazy how she survived a 1% chance of survival. True respect,” added another.

Elsewhere people were quick to applaud the doctors who cared for her.

“Doctors seriously deserve a MAD award, for not giving up on her life, even when there’s a 1% chance of survival. Truly, respect,” gushed one person.

An onlooker who witnessed a 20-year-old woman tearing out her own eyes, while under the influence of drugs, heard her screaming some disturbing words in the process.

Kaylee Muthart, from Anderson, South Carolina, had been high on crystal meth – ‘a larger dose than [she’d] ever used before’ – when she began attacking her own eyes with her bare hands on February 6, 2018.

The 20-year-old had been using recreational drugs since she was 18 years old, beginning with cannabis before she began experimenting with meth.

On the morning of February 6, she was still high from the hit she’d taken the day before, and began hallucinating as she wandered towards a church along a railroad track.

In an article written for Cosmopolitan, Kaylee recalled everything looking ‘dark and gloomy’ as she was suddenly struck by the thought that she had to ‘sacrifice something important to right the world’.

“I thought everything would end abruptly, and everyone would die, if I didn’t tear out my eyes immediately. I don’t know how I came to that conclusion, but I felt it was, without doubt, the right, rational thing to do immediately,” she said.

Kaylee recalled trying to resist the feeling as she prayed and asked: “Why me? Why do I have to do this?”

She only felt the urge more strongly when a man she’d been staying with drove by and called out: “I locked up the house. Do you have the other key?”

For Kaylee, this was a ‘sign’ that her sacrifice was the ‘key’ to saving the world.

Kaylee was a straight-A student prior to dropping out of school (Kaylee Muthart)

She then recalled pushing her fingers into her eyes and pulling until they popped out of the socket.

“It felt like a massive struggle, the hardest thing I ever had to do. Because I could no longer see, I don’t know if there was blood,” she recalled.

As she continued, a pastor nearby heard Kaylee screaming out.

While clawing out her eyes, plunging herself into blindness, she was shouting: “I want to see the light!”

The pastor managed to restrain Kaylee, but by the time he got to her she was already holding her eyeballs in her hands.

After she was restrained, Kaylee was rushed to hospital where doctors performed an emergency surgery to remove what was left of her eyes. She woke up two days later, blind, but knowing that she would be ‘okay’.

Looking back on the incident in her article, Kaylee said that while she had to get used to life without her vision, she’s ‘happier now’ than she lost her sight.

“It took losing my sight to get me back on the right path, but from the bottom of my heart, I’m so glad I’m here,” she said.

Now one woman who considers herself an expert when it comes to sleeping with married men, has given the number one sign that they might be playing away.

It’s never nice to find out that someone has cheated, but while you might think ignorance is bliss, one woman says there’s a major tell that gives many cheaters away.

Micki Daniels is a former escort who spent more then a decade with many married clients.

Apparently, it all boils down to how protective your partner is of their phone.

She told the Mail: “If he is possessive of his phone, avoids answering calls in front of you, or gets mad when you ask to use it, he’s hiding something.”

Micki says social media makes it easier than ever to cheat and has caused temptation to increase.

Keep an eye out for added security measures like adding new passwords or pins to a device, or no longer allowing you access to it if they did before.

Creating new and especially secret social media accounts are also a red flag, says Micki.

Another sign to look out for is if they start to pick petty fights for no reason, warns Micki: “Cheaters pull away or instigate petty fights so they can have a ‘time out.’”

They then use the following ‘cooling-off’ period to meet with their secret partners.

If there’s no effort at all after to kiss and make up, that’s another glaring red flag.

Micki says she slept with many married men over the years and knows their habits (themickidaniels/Instagram)

Daniels insists: “If they come back and try to sweep things under the rug, you should reconsider what they were really up to.”

There can be differences in behaviour in their routine too.

Micki says if a man rushes to get in the shower immediately after arriving home, he could be trying to get rid of any physical evidence he’s been unfaithful.

It’s the same if he runs to get washed off straight after intimacy: “Post-sex affection is linked to deepening connection between partners, so if he’s prioritizing a shower, perhaps he’s just having sex out of obligation.”

If he’s suddenly changed his look too or invested in nicer clothing, something else might be up: “When a cheater is on the prowl, they will up the ante by improving their physical presentation.”

Older men often get caught out thanks to bank statements or unusual spending, says Micki: “Younger men tend to be more cautious and don’t leave the same paper trail, but older men may not cover their tracks as effectively.”

So, if they’re no longer idly scrolling next to you, are obsessed with showers and are suddenly dressing a lot nicer, you might have to have an awkward conversation.