MOVIN’ ON: Actor Eddie Cibrian and LeeAnn Rimes .
THE HILLS: Brandi Glanville was left broke after her ex ran off. (
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The invitation to officially join “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” could hardly have come at a better moment for Brandi Glanville.
The former fashion model — who is promoted to “full time Housewife” status this season — says she was nearly broke, with little income and zero credit after husband Eddie Cibrian dumped her for country singer LeAnn Rimes three years ago.
“I was a 36-year-old woman who couldn’t lease a car and couldn’t lease a house,” she tells The Post.
“For 13 years, my name wasn’t on one account. I am still building my credit.”
The Botox-loving mother of two claims she ended up with almost nothing in the divorce. “We were living way above our means,” she admits, “in a 10,000-square-foot house. There wasn’t a lot to get, honestly.”
Glanville was eventually able to rent a modest, single-story home in LA’s San Fernando Valley, which viewers got a chance to see last week on the opening episode of “Housewives.”
“I had to pay the whole year in advance,” she admits. “I had to get my daddy to co-sign.”
The new TV gig is helping Glanville get back on her feet financially, but she remains locked in a nasty legal dispute with Cibrian, who has forbidden their two sons to appear on the show.
“The kids are not on the show this year,” she confirms. “But my lawyer is working on it.”
Glanville and her ex share custody of Jake, 5, and Mason, 9.
“When I am working I don’t get to see my children,” she says. “And that is not OK with me. “
She calls Cibrian “hypocritical” because “he does red carpets and all these paparazzi shoots with them. It is the same difference.”
Glanville — who appeared as a “friend of the Housewives” last season — says the show is filled with references to her ex.
In one scene, she encounters another woman he cheated with during their 13-year marriage.
“She is a waitress, of course,” Glanville smirks.
The Sacramento native has tried to bury the hatchet with the “Playboy Club” actor, she says. (“Last year I had Eddie and LeAnn over for an Easter egg hunt”).
But she is no longer speaking to Rimes, who is suing a pair of Glanville supporters for what the country singer alleges is Internet bullying.
“I want the lawsuit to go away,” Glanville says. “It is not going to end up good for anyone. I want LeAnn to be fine. And to be happy. Just take my husband and go away.”
Glanville says her children will one day learn the details of their father’s infidelity from a book she has just completed.
“For now they just know that Daddy fell in love with somebody else,” she says.
Glanville, meanwhile, is single but enjoying a “friends with benefits” arrangement with an unnamed Los Angeles businessman.
“I am treating this show as a platform and a window,” she says.
“If it is gone tomorrow, I made the most of it. I joke that I whore myself out to anyone that will pay me. But that is kind of what is happening.”