Diana Armstrong of Minnesota, USA, was awarded the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails ever recorded on a woman. If all her 10 toes were lined up in a row, their total length would have been measured at over 13 metres. This is the length at which she was given this honour in 2022. Her journey to this achievement began in 1997, when she made the decision to stop cutting her nails. Over the course of time, her claws now easily reach the floor, and she regularly paints them with different colours. The official Instagram page of Guinness World Records shared Armstrong’s story and wrote, “Measuring 1,306.58 cm (42 ft 10.4 in) the combined length of Diana’s fingernails is longer than a standard yellow school bus! Diana has been growing her fingernails for over 25 years!”
“Diana last cut her nails in 1997. But shortly after, a tragic accident rocked her family and she vowed to never trim them again,” the post added. In response to inquiries regarding her nail care routine and the motivation behind her record-breaking journey, Armstrong answered the question shortly after breaking the record for the first time.
In an interview, she revealed, “Well you know, when I go to the bathroom it’ll be the same as anyone else going to the bathroom, just I work with my nails probably in a different way they’d work with theirs. 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.”
“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,” she added.
People asked many such questions, the most important of which was how does she take care of them? Why did she grow her nails so long? So, there is a sad story behind this decision. One day, she asked her children to wake up while she was going to the supermarket. But when she was out, her youngest daughter called her and told her that her 16-year-old daughter Latisha would not wake up. Then she came to know that her daughter had died in her sleep due to an asthma attack.
Recalling the pain, Armstrong said that it was the worst day of her life. She always had long nails that Latisha lovingly tended to every week. Armstrong suffered from depression for a decade after her daughter’s death. She said keeping her nails long was her way of honouring her daughter and keeping her memory alive.
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