Brandi Glanville Biography

Brandi Glanville (born November 16, 1972) is an American television personality and former fashion model. She is best known for joining the second season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Early life and Modeling

Glanville was born on November 16, 1972 to parents Guy and Judith Ann Glanville and raised in Sacramento, CA. She has an older sister, Tricia, and a younger brother, Michael.

At the age of 16, Glanville moved to Paris, France and began modeling. Glanville was signed by Elite Model Management to work in Europe, Los Angeles and New York. By the next year, she was taking part in Paris runway shows. During a 17-year modeling career, she appeared in the pages of Glamour and Cosmopolitan and worked for design couture houses including Chanel, Giorgio Armani, and Gucci.

Personal life

Glanville married actor Eddie Cibrian, known primarily for his work on TV series including The Young and The Restless, Third Watch, CSI: Miami and The Playboy Club, on May 12, 2001. The couple had two sons together, Mason Edward (born June 8, 2003) and Jake Austin (born April 7, 2007).

In early 2009, reports surfaced that Cibrian was having an affair with married country singer LeAnn Rimes, his costar in Northern Lights. Though Glanville initially stood by her husband in public and attended counseling with him, Cibrian and Rimes took their relationship public in August 2009, one week after Rimes separated from her husband.

Glanville then left Cibrian and they filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce was finalized on September 30, 2010.

Glanville has acknowledged undergoing plastic surgery procedures, including having her lips plumped and her breasts augmented.

The Real Housewives

In 2011, Glanville was introduced by Adrienne Maloof in the second season of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She joined the series as a "Friend of the Housewives" in the fourth episode of season two. Adrienne introduced her to the cast at a party because "Brandi's going through a divorce and I wanted to show her a good time." The meeting got off to a rocky start: Lisa Vanderpump was immediately suspicious of Glanville because of Glanville's association with Vanderpump's enemy and former houseguest Cedric Martinez; others ridiculed Glanville for showing up to a charity event wearing a high wedge-heeled shoe while on crutches.

In the seventh episode, the relationship between Glanville and the Richards sisters spiraled out of control after Kyle and her sister, Kim, made fun of her, mentioned that one of Glanville's sons had urinated on Adrienne's lawn, and hid Glanville's crutches.

In the fourteenth episode, Glanville invited the women to a friend's beach house for a night of fun. The night takes an unexpected turn when Taylor Armstrong gets into a confrontation with the other guests and Glanville asks Armstrong to leave her party.

Glanville also appeared in the three-part reunion. During the reunion it was known that Lisa Vanderpump, Camille Grammer, and Brandi were friends.

When Camille was announced to not be returning for season three, it was rumored that Glanville would take her place as an official Housewife, and on April 29, 2012, it was reported this was in fact true. In October of 2012 it was announced Brandi was an "official Housewife" for Season 3 to air in November.

Book

Glanville, now a breakout television star in her right was offered a book deal in 2012 by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Shuster. "Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders" will be released February 12, 2013. The book title is a play on her use of Twitter to rebuff Rimes" own constant "tweets" regarding Glanville"s young sons and now ex-husband, Cibrian. Glanville, at the time of editing, has a twitter following of over 210,000 followers. The book itself is a humorous memoir regarding a very public break-up, surviving infidelity - mixed with social media, and moving on in the aftermath.