The 53-year-old former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills wild woman recently blurted on her Brandi Unfiltered podcast: “I have a quick question. Have you heard about sexually transmitted ringworm? I feel like I have it … in my throat.”
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The gabber believes she caught it from getting intimate with an adult film star she was dating.
“He would only, you know, my face because he didn’t want to get me pregnant,” she says about her unnamed sex partner. “He didn’t know that ship had sailed.
“I’m like, ‘OK, whatever, I’m not going to correct you.’ ”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ringworm is a fungal infection of the hair, skin or nails that can be spread by skin-to-skin contact or during sex.
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“It’s one of these things that most people don’t know what to look for,” notes Brandi, mom of two sons from her 2001-2010 marriage to actor Eddie Cibrian, who left her for his now-wife LeAnn Rimes.
“If it’s in your throat, they can burrow deep into your ears and all that,” says the outspoken firecracker, adding it can be “severe and difficult to treat.”
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On top of that, the shameless siren’s been battling shocking facial paralysis for a year that’s soaked her for $200,000 in medical bills.
In February, she says docs traced the disfigurement to leaked silicone — from an implant in her right breast that had ruptured during a sonogram — that traveled to her lymph nodes.
The horrifying result was facial paralysis and loss of several teeth, she says.
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Then in April, she rushed to an urgent care center to get a garlic clove removed from her ear.
She says she put it in there hoping it would lessen congestion from a cold.
“I was trying to get it out,” she says, adding, “It really went down further and I had to go to urgent care the next day and get it taken out.”