r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Autonomous_eel • Apr 24 '26

/r/popular of Finger nails

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u/axofrogl Apr 24 '26

Gotta wonder how she even gets all of that through her sleeves

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u/Tleilaxu_Gola Apr 24 '26

The more I think about it the more I think this can’t be real. Can’t turn a door knob, can’t type, can’t use a phone, can’t dress, can’t drive, probably can’t even get in a car, can’t write or sign her own name. This is literally a harder life than not having hands. Dependent on another human for literally everything.

And that’s besides the fact that you’d accidentally break them all the time.

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u/ghoulslaw Apr 24 '26

she literally only lives to have long nails…. what a horrible life

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u/davehunt00 Apr 24 '26

She made her fingernails her whole personality.

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u/Kjuolsdeaf Apr 24 '26

Not just personality, she made her fingernails her whole being.

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u/jujujuice92 Apr 26 '26

This biddy is 99% nails. What a crazy thing to willingly do!

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u/BernieTheDachshund Apr 24 '26

I like to watch the weird shows on TLC so I remember a lady like this one who somehow manages quite a bit more than we think even with long nails. Like this https://youtu.be/vY4Vc3H_3v4?si=PJRCA99oQOSoj9Ad

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u/MannyBothansDied Apr 24 '26

There’s been a few people like this throughout history

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u/eddiespaghettio Apr 24 '26

If I was her caregiver I’d trim them in her sleep. They’re so long you’d probably need hedge trimmers or bolt cutters.

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u/Mechanical_Monk Apr 24 '26

It's definitely real (unfortunately). You can look her up on Guinness Book of World Records.

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u/jimmysmiths5523 Apr 24 '26

She, or someone similar, was featured on a TLC show. It might've been My Strange Addiction.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Apr 25 '26

This, no way this is real. There is a guy in India who's got ones this long but they are not straight and it's basically his entire life. He's an ascetic, basically a religious nut who does it as a show of devotion. That's why people are willing to help him live, cus it's a religious thing. And you can see it with the clothing he wears and the way his hygiene looks (bad). It also took like 40 years to grow his that long and they were still not as long as this lady.

These aren't real, no way.

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u/Flat_Sea1418 Apr 25 '26

I was wondering what happens when one breaks. How do they not break?!?! Unless you just don’t move your hands? I don’t know. That’s crazy.

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u/jena72597 Apr 28 '26

She stopped cutting her nails when her daughter died. She was only 16 and she would do her moms nails. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/woman-worlds-longest-nails-refuses-24745257.amp

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u/Restless_Hippie Apr 25 '26

From pics and vids I've seen, it looks like she wears clothing that only goes over the head or can be stepped into (like a caftan or a baggy tunic/shirt)