World’s Longest Fingernails Lost in Crash
Lee Redmond was a woman with a whim and a dream and it took her around the world. Miss Redmond was a great ambassador for the Guinness Book of World Records brand. She wasn’t shy and as the photos show lived a fairly regular life, even with a total of 28 feet of fingernails. She was striking and vivacious, with her blonde mane and trim figure even as years past she keep her looks. Some reports state she’s currently 66 years old and a great grandmother. As tragic as the loss of her nails and title may be, she can now retire from the burden of her fame. I wish her a swift recovery.
Woman’s record-length fingernails broken in crash
Associated Press | 2-13-09
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake City woman who was in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has had them broken off in a car accident. Lee Redmond sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries in the Tuesday accident.
Redmond was the current Guinness record holder, with nails that hadn’t been cut since 1979. 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, according to the Guinness Web site.
Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Lt. Don Hutson said she was ejected from an SUV in the crash and taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Redmond has been featured on TV in episodes of “Guinness Book of World Records” and “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.”
Egads, the very thought of those fingernails on my back gives me the shiveres. These, on the other hand (um…unintentional,) are just plain gross.