Right hand
Thumb Thumb The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position , the thumb is the lateral-most digit...	76.4 cm	30.1 in
Index finger Index finger The index finger, , is the first finger and the second digit of a human hand. It is located between the first and third digits, between the thumb and the middle finger...	72.3 cm	28.5 in
Middle finger Middle finger The middle finger or long finger is the third digit of the human hand, located between the index finger and the ring finger. It is usually the longest finger...	74.1 cm	29.2 in
Ring finger Ring finger The ring finger is the fourth digit of the human hand, and the second most ulnar finger, located between the middle finger and the little finger. It is also called digitus medicinalis, the fourth finger, digitus annularis, digitus quartus, or digitus IV in anatomy.- Etymology :According to László A...	73.6 cm	29.0 in
Little finger Little finger The little finger, often called the pinky in American English, pinkie in Scottish English , or small finger in medicine, is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger.-Muscles:There are four muscles that...	71.6 cm	28.2 in
Left Hand
Thumb Thumb The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position , the thumb is the lateral-most digit...	80.0 cm	31.5 in
Index finger Index finger The index finger, , is the first finger and the second digit of a human hand. It is located between the first and third digits, between the thumb and the middle finger...	76.4 cm	30.1 in
Middle finger Middle finger The middle finger or long finger is the third digit of the human hand, located between the index finger and the ring finger. It is usually the longest finger...	76.7 cm	30.2 in
Ring finger Ring finger The ring finger is the fourth digit of the human hand, and the second most ulnar finger, located between the middle finger and the little finger. It is also called digitus medicinalis, the fourth finger, digitus annularis, digitus quartus, or digitus IV in anatomy.- Etymology :According to László A...	76.2 cm	30.0 in
Little finger Little finger The little finger, often called the pinky in American English, pinkie in Scottish English , or small finger in medicine, is the most ulnar and usually smallest finger of the human hand, opposite the thumb, next to the ring finger.-Muscles:There are four muscles that...	73.6 cm	29.0 in
Total length
	751.3 cm	24 ft 7.8 in

Lee Redmond (born February 2, 1941) held the record in the Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

for longest fingernails on both hands. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

. The Enquirer

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featured her every few years and kept track of the progress of her nails.

Redmond started growing her nails in late 1978-early 1979 and although she had originally planned to have them cut off on November 22, 2006 (as she said on her guest appearances on a couple of talk shows), she chose to keep her nails after all. In the past few years, she made appearances on CBS News

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 and at the Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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museum. One of her last appearances was at a fundraiser for the Salt Lake City fire department, where it was reported her nails were an average of 34–35 inches in length.

A great-grandmother, Redmond currently resides in Salt Lake City. During the time when she had her long nails, she enjoyed activities such as riding bikes with her younger sister Sierra, who had normal nails. She stated that while certain activities such as putting on a heavy coat were troublesome, she managed her daily life without much difficulty. On the Guinness TV feature, she was shown driving a car, vacuuming, doing dishes, and giving haircuts to her grandchildren. She added that her long nails didn't even interfere with her care of her husband, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease

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.

On February 10, 2009, her record-setting nails were broken off when she was ejected from a car in a four-car pile-up in Holladay, Utah

Holladay, Utah

Holladay is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 26,472 at the 2010 census, a significant increase from 14,561 in 2000. The city was incorporated on November 29, 1999 as Holladay-Cottonwood, and the...

. Her injuries were serious, but not life threatening.

In a Huffington Post story published on September 3, 2009 it was stated that:
"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." Her nails are currently about four inches long, however.

See also

• Shridhar Chillal
  Shridhar Chillal
  Shridhar Chillal holds the world record for the longest fingernails ever reached on a single hand, measuring 6.15 meters . Chillal's longest nail is 4.25 feet...
  
  , who holds the world record for the longest fingernails ever reached on a single hand.

External links

• Entry in Guinness World Records