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Woman with World’s Longest Fingernails: See How She Texts
with 20-Foot Nails
With fingernails nearly 20 feet long, Chris "The Dutchess" Walton set the record
for the world's longest nails, which took 18 years to grow. That must be one
expensive manicure.
The 45-year-old singer from Las Vegas known as "The Dutchess" is now part of the
2012 Guinness Book of World Records for her fingernails that measure 10 feet 2
inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right."It's kind of like a
body part that I was born with, now I don't know what I would do without them,"
Chris "The Dutchess" Walton said while being photographed in front of the New
York Public Library on Wednesday.While she admits she doesn't know what she
would do without them, we wonder what she does WITH them.
According to "The Dutchess," she can do almost anything with
her 20-feet long nails including drive a car, shop and household chores. Well,
anything but reach into her pockets.
"The hardest thing for me to do is dig in my pockets," she told the Huffington
Post. "Everything else I can do myself -- driving, shopping, cleaning the house
... although when I vacuum, the cord gets tangled in my fingers."One other
activity she does not engage in is swimming, but not because of her nails. "I
don't swim, but it's not the nails that stop me swimming. It's a hair thing,"
she said.
"The Dutchess" demonstrated how she texts with such long fingernails, using her
knuckles instead, while promoting the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records with
her glittery nails and flamboyant ensemble.She consciously thinks about her
nails, which she has been growing for over 18 years, including when dressing
herself, altering her clothing to fit her sharp lifestyle.
"I align my wardrobe to myself...If I like a jacket, I'll
take the seam out of the arm and replace it with a zipper so I can get my nails
in the sleeve," she said.
The mother of five and grandmother of three did not intentionally grow her nails
over the past two decades for sport, but rather on accident.
I never set out to make it into Guinness. It just happened," she told the
Huffington Post. "One day I stopped cutting my nails. I liked the way they
looked. And they just kept growing."
"The Dutchess" said she does not have a special diet to grow her nails and does
not take vitamins or supplements to promote nail growth, but rather eats a lot
of candy.
She does, however, care for her appendage-like fingernails, giving herself a
manicure once a month. When asked how many bottles of nail polish she uses per
manicure, she told the Huffington Post, "it depends on the brand, and how it
goes on."Chris "The Dutchess" Walton, a real life Edward Scissorhands, also said
she does not plan on clipping her nails any time soon.
"I'm pretty sure one day I will cut them, but I can't see it in my head because
I'm so used to having them," she said. "It's like a leg, I wouldn't just chop it
off so it's gonna take some thinking."
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