This is the cover for Brandi Glanville’s second book, Drinking & Dating. The Photoshop is heavy with this one. So much so that I was searching for high-quality images of the cover until I realized that I already found them and that’s just the way her face looks on the cover – blurry and cartoonish. Anyway, a lot of sites are doing previews of this book. One of the best I’ve seen is on Reality Tea, which you can read here – they must have gotten an advance copy. In the book, Brandi admits to getting a Twitter account so she could keep an eye on LeAnn:

Brandi Glanville only joined Twitter to keep an eye on LeAnn Rimes. The ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star set up a profile on the social networking site to track her ex-husband, Eddie Cibrian, and his 31-year-old wife, who tied the knot in 2011 after embarking on an affair on the set of the movie ‘Northern Lights’ that led to the breakdown of both of their first marriages in 2009.

In the first chapter of her upcoming second book, ‘Drinking & Dating: P.S. Social Media Is Ruining Romance,’ Brandi wrote: ”When I first discovered the benefits of technology and social media. I used it to obsess about my husband, his future wife, and our children throughout the breakup and divorce.”

Brandi, 41, has had a long-running public feud with ‘Spitfire’ hitmaker LeAnn, who she refers to as a ”c**try singer,” but the pair were thought to have buried the hatchet last year when the singer sent the reality TV star flowers for Mother’s Day in May.

Brandi, who has sons, Jake, 10, and Mason, six, with Eddie, previously predicted her acrimonious relationship with LeAnn would drastically improve if the singer got pregnant because it would help her to learn boundaries as a mother and stepmother. She said: ”Hopefully, they’ll have a child of their own and she’ll understand better what a proper boundary is for a stepmother and a mother.”

[From Contact Music]

It’s worth noting that back when Eddie and Brandi first split up, LeAnn ran a Twitter account called (I think) something like “Wewe N Love” and it was devoted to all of her loved-up musings on Eddie. Plus, LeAnn obsesses over everything Brandi does too, so it’s basically even now. Brandi also “comes clean” about the rumors that she cheated on Eddie while they were married – you can read some excerpts of that here. Basically, she blames the rumors on LeAnn and says she never cheated on Eddie, but she did date men when her divorce was still being finalized.

Additionally, Brandi did Us Weekly’s “25 Things You Don’t Know About” feature, and I really didn’t know most of this stuff:

1. My go-to fast food is a Del Taco burrito with extra red sauce, extra cheese, easy beans and onions.
2. I rarely swear in my day-to-day life. The women on the show bring out my colorful language with their judgments!
3. I love clipping coupons.
4. I’m a morning person.
5. I still get zits.
6. I am deathly afraid of fish.
7. My kids [Mason, 10, and Jake, 6] can talk me into anything.
8. I love cooking. I’m famous for my taco nights.
9. When I was growing up, I had a pet praying mantis named Dusty.
10. My top TV show is Seinfeld.
11. My parents have been happily married for 46 years.
12. I have 13 best girlfriends.
13. I like costume jewelry better than real diamonds.
14. I raced cars at age 14 and won at the Sacramento Raceway.
15. I only drove a stick shift until I moved to Los Angeles.
16. I’m absolutely obsessed with vitamins.
17. And lingerie!
18. I’m a middle child.
19. I learned to ski at age 23.
20. My favorite animal is an elephant because it’s good luck.
21. I lived in Europe (mostly Paris and Milan) for six years while modeling.
22. I was a competitive gymnast until the 10th grade.
23. I keep a recorder in my car so when I think of profound things, I can remember them.
24. My second book, Drinking and Dating, debuts in February.
25. I’m a Scorpio rising. I love hard and I fight hard.

[From Us Weekly]

I think my favorites are the praying mantis named Dusty (I would love it if the full name was Dusty Springfield) and the costume jewelry thing. I too have lusted over high-quality costume pieces, and if you get the right kind, they often look as good (if not better) than the real stuff. Do you think she really clips coupons though?

Photos courtesy of WENN.