Lee Redmond, Longest Fingernails Record Holder, Discusses Drama Of Breaking Them

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.

Redmond hadn't cut her nails since 1979 and entered the Guinness World Records book in 2002 for longest fingernails on a woman.

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.

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On the Net:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com

Comments

[ChicagoSuz]

07:42 AM on 09/07/2009

Years ago, my Mom shared a room at Lenox Hill Hospital with a woman whose nails were several feet long. She swore she was able to do things in spite of them. Other than the nails, she seemed completely normal... I think she just got a kick out of people's reactions to them. I, of course, was fascinated... LOL

[Giada]

04:07 PM on 09/06/2009

Surely there is a book for these unusual types = ) Prompts the rhetorical question, Why?

[Retrofuturistic]

01:19 PM on 09/06/2009

As my daddy used to say: "It takes all kinds of people to make a world...."

[FabulousAt52]

10:53 AM on 09/06/2009

Woman with the longest fingernails needs to do something much more productive with her sorry life.....

[Norge]

04:28 AM on 09/06/2009

There is a really tragic aspect to this story of the longest fingernails.
Different strokes for different folks perhaps.

[manofwar]

03:53 PM on 09/04/2009

How do they wipe after using the lavatory?


Not a Clean look, Nasty!

[HekmabaJuzimax]

05:09 PM on 09/04/2009

You can use a bidet, and that is quite sanitary.

[PoliSci2008]

04:14 PM on 09/06/2009

I'm with you war man!

[NoSillyName]

01:45 PM on 09/04/2009

AHA, the length is the total of all the nails. The number then makes more sense.

I did a search and found this funny video of her on Ellen:
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=2882

Several of our questions are answered!

[DCSuburb]

12:14 PM on 09/04/2009

gross

[LORISNJ]

10:38 AM on 09/04/2009

I can see more legislations coming - along with cell phone and texting restrictions while driving - no finger nails over 3 inches will be allowed while driving. Thanks Lee!

[NoSillyName]

02:42 AM on 09/04/2009

Look at that picture of the guy's nails! They are all curled around; how doe HE go to the bathroom? Men kinda have to handle themselves, no? Forget the wiping.

These people must have very personal assistants.

[NoSillyName]

02:32 AM on 09/04/2009

There's just no way a person could perform daily tasks with those hideous things growing out of all ten fingers. Did she retain a personal assistant?

Really gross.

[regularmess]

01:58 AM on 09/04/2009

Tragedy upon tragedy.

Almost 9.11 again. Read this and share with friends...http://thehappeningstory.blogspot.com/. Rein in your ADD and give it a good six minutes.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

05:10 PM on 09/04/2009

"All events, names and persons in this story are
wholly fictionalized. Descriptions of conditions
within the buildings are author-generated and come
from no actual accounts or observed data. This
story is a tribute to no one and adopts the World
Trade Center attacks as its central event only because
a story is selfish and does not have the good sense to
avoid topics as the humble person might over dinner
with friends."

OH MY! How did those words get here?

[mlaiuppa]

01:13 AM on 09/04/2009

So, how did she feed herself and dress herself for the last 30 years? I won't even get into questions of hygiene.

[Chloe33]

01:54 AM on 09/04/2009

....let alone SLEPT with those talons.

[tigerlyly]

01:13 AM on 09/04/2009

Those of must have been healthy nails to not split, crack, or break for 30 years.

[NoSillyName]

01:34 PM on 09/04/2009

Really. Mine never make it beyond 3/4 inch. But then most of us use our hands for many tasks daily. These freaks obviously don't and can't use their hands for anything,

[Monterey]

12:36 AM on 09/04/2009

OK this is enough to put you off your tea.