Woman with longest nails loses them in a crash

[Elmore Furth]

Oh my. The woman with the worlds longest fingernails broke them off in a motor vehicle accident. There's 30 years of effort lost.



Sept . 3, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City woman who held a Guinness World Record for her long fingernails before they broke off in a car crash says it was the most dramatic event of her life.

But Lee Redmond, who lost the fingernails in February, says it's now much easier to do things and her hands seem to fly with the weight of the nails gone.

The 68-year-old won't grow her nails out again, saying it took 30 years the first time and she may not live for another 30.

The Guinness Web site says her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches.


Woman with longest nails loses them in a crash

[gmoney]

1. something really disgusting about this for some reason...

not quite as unappetizing as the woman from "People of WalMart" posted a few days ago... hers looked like freakish parsnips or carrots or something. :shudder:

[Bombero1956]

2. Sister Mary Francis!!!

how in the hell can anyone function with those things? How do you eat, write on paper and clean yourself after going to the bathroom and god-bless her family for putting up with that type of obsession. That guy with the long nails is a bigger twit.

[Deja Q]

3. How the hell could she drive in the first place with guitar strummers like those?

:wow:

[Shell Beau]

4. Surely she has to be some what relieved to be rid of all that dead weight.

Literally. I think that is nasty, but I am sure she took pride in those nails. But now that they are gone, she can move one knowing she had some long ass nails.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. That's grotesque.

And of course the first thing that came to mind was "How did she go to the bathroom?"

[Orrex]

6. In other words, she can wipe her own ass for the first time in three decades.

I call that a victory.

[carlyhippy]

7. LOL! and how she blows her nose

or cooks, brush her hair, etc...how does she do ANYTHING AT ALL with those nails?! that is soooo grooss!!!!!!! yucky