55-Year-Old Chinese Woman Wants Record for World's Longest Hair

One Chinese woman is already a real-life Rapunzel but, in the coming years, she wants the Guinness Book of World Records to also attest it. She hasn't cut her hair since she was 14. She's 55 now.

Ni Linmei has been growing out her hair for so much time that she also plans of making a buck off it and, no, it doesn't imply selling it for hair extensions even though would probably make her richer by a lot.

Instead, she wants to grow it some more and, in a few years, to apply for the Guinness Book of World Records, China Daily informs.

“The 55-year-old woman, who lives in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province, has become famous for her big braid in her community,” the publication says, by means of comment to two photos taken just recently of Linmei and her impressive mane.

“She started growing her hair when she was 14, and it has grown to 2.53 meters long today. She says her hair grows 16.7 centimeters every year and she plans to apply to the Guinness World Records for longest hair in a few years,” China Daily further says.

One photo shows Linmei after she combed her hair, an operation that is quite tricky given its length, with the mane wrapped in a protective piece of clothing.

Of course, she's not the only woman to make headlines for growing out something others like to keep very short. Just recently, we were talking about Chris Walton, the current holder of the title of world's longest nails.

As we also informed you at the time, Walton stopped clipping her fingernails, allowing them instead to grow freely.

She says her life is normal even though she has nails that could forbid her from doing anything even remotely “normal.” She cooks, she drives, she does the laundry, she does chores around the house, the whole 9 yards.

Walton explains that she decided herself to try and not let her fingernails disrupt her life too much because she only wanted to have an eye-catching manicure, not put her life on hold for a Guinness record.