Brandi Glanville Just Shared A Photo Of The 2nd Degree Burns On Her Face

• Reality start Brandi Glanville shared photos of the second-degree burns she got on her face after a psoriasis treatment gone wrong.

• She said the incident occurred back in December, and that she's still healing.

• At one point, the burns were so serious she couldn't open her eyes.

Former Real Housewife of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville took to Twitter to share a photo of the second-degree burns she received from spending too much time under a UV light for psoriasis treatment, after tabloids criticized her skin following an Instagram Live appearance.

"So this happened to me in December 2nd degree burns all over my face from an accident with a psoriasis light I am still healing & really didn’t want to share these photos but since @DailyMail⁩ is attacking my looks [here] is the 411," Brandi tweeted. "Honestly it’s not something I want it out there or I wanted to share at all and it was so depressing but I just feel like I have to defend myself I’m still healing." The burns have taken almost four months to heal.

The burns were so serious she could not open her eyes at one point, she wrote. "I’m OK but you know it happened in December I’m still swollen and having people attack my looks just makes me feel like I never wanna leave my house and I just want to cry," she said. "My retinas were burned my eyelashes burned off I couldn’t open my eyes three days the light was so painful."

Brandi said she got burned after misunderstanding her doctor's instructions for how to use an at-home psoriasis light. "It was an accident obviously my doctor told me to hold the light over my face for 17.3 what I thought were minutes but it was seconds completely my fault it was suppose to help the psoriasis that was overtaking my face from stress," she wrote.

Psoriasis is a (fairly common) chronic skin disorder that causes the body to produce new skin cells in days instead of weeks, per the American Academy of Dermatology. Because the body is producing cells so quickly, excess skin cells build up in thick, scaly patches called plaques. Over 8 million Americans are affected by it, according to the National Psoriasis Foundation, and roughly 2 to 3 percent of the global population.

To deal with flare-ups, dermatologists sometimes prescribe phototherapy, or supervised exposure to an ultra-violet light.

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