Record holder won't grow out her fingernails again

A Salt Lake woman who held a Guinness World Record for her long fingernails but had them broken off in a car crash earlier this year is speaking out about losing them.

Lee Redmond says that while losing her fingernails in February was the most dramatic event of her life, 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.

Redmond hadn't cut her nails since 1979 and entered the Guinness World Records book in 2002 for longest fingernails on a woman.

The Guinness Web site says her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches.

— Associated Press