Woman who has world’s longest nails answers one question everyone is always asking
Topics: Guinness World Records
Mia Williams
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Topics: Guinness World Records
The woman with the world's longest nails has answered the question everyone wants to know.
Diana Armstrong, from Minnesota, US, hasn't trimmed her fingernails since 1997 - resulting in her holding an impressive Guinness World Record.
The last time her nails were measured in 2022, they were collectively 42ft and 10 inches - which is longer than the length of yellow school bus.
But Diana didn't just grow her nails out for fun, there's actually a sentimental reason behind why she vowed never to cut them again.
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She said: "That was the worst day of my life.
“The day before, she’d spent time polishing and filling my nails, so after that, I just couldn’t cut my nails off.
"My nails are a part of me.
"I can’t ever imagine cutting them off.”
But as you can imagine, having the world's longest nails is a whole lot of up-keep, and it takes a village.
Diana's grandchildren act as her manicurists, with each nail taking ‘about ten hours to polish’ and a woodwork tool being used to file them.
She claims it even takes up to 20 nail polish bottles and ‘four days’ to complete.
As you can imagine, having the extra-long nails means that the mundane, everyday tasks can become quite complex.
And the question on everyone's mind is how on earth does she go to the toilet?
But it seems as though that isn't the worst of her troubles.
Speaking to Guinness World Records, Diana said: "It’ll be the same as anyone else going to the bathroom.
"I use a lot of toilet paper.
"I don’t wrap it around my hand like some people do, I can’t do it like that, because it ain’t going to work that way.”
Fair enough.
She added: "When I go to a public restroom, I go to the stall that is the biggest.
"If someone is in that stall I have to wait until they’ve finished and then go in because I can’t use the smaller ones because my nails are longer than them."
And washing her hands isn't an easy experience either, after Diana noted that she does one hand at a time, as she can’t pour soap into her hands and rub them together.