LeeAnn Redmond, the Holladay woman who formerly held the record for the world’s longest fingernails, has died at the age of 82.
According to her obituary, Redmond died Thursday and was survived by 3 children, along with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
By 2008, the Guinness World Records said Redmond’s fingernails had grown to 28 feet 4.5 inches after having last cut them decades earlier in 1979.
Redmond continued to let her fingernails grow until 2009 when they broke during a car accident. Guinness wrote that Redmond was thrown 25 feet from her vehicle and onto the road.
“The first thing I spotted was a fingernail,” she told Guinness.
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