Woman sets world record with 42-foot fingernails

Diana Armstrong has broken the record for the world’s longest fingernails on a pair of hands (female), Guinness World Records (GWR) announced on Tuesday.

The 63-year-old from Minnesota, the United States, also holds the record for the longest fingernails on a pair of hands ever (female), reports NDTV citing GWR.

Diana Armstrong’s fingernails measure about (1,306.58 cm) 42-feet 10.4 Inches long, GWR said, adding that the record was set in March this year. Her right thumbnail, which measures 138.94 cm (4 ft 6.7 in), is the longest of all her nails whereas her left pinky fingernail - smallest of her nails - is 109.2 cm (3 ft 7 in) long.

Ms Armstrong last used a nail clipper back in 1997. The reason for not using it after that is a heartbreaking accident that changed her family.

Getting her children out of bed and heading to the grocery store to buy food for her family was how Diana had begun her day as usual that year, the GWR release said.

While shopping, Ms Armstrong got a panicked call from her youngest daughter. “At the store, my baby daughter called me and told me ‘Ma, Tisha won’t wake up’,” she recalled. Aged just 16, her daughter Latisha died because of an asthma attack while sleeping.

“That was the worst day of my life,” GWR quoted Ms Armstrong as saying. She used to get her nails done by Latisha every weekend.