Lee Redmond

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Lee Redmond (February 2, 1941 – December 14, 2023) is a woman from the Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. She is famous for having the longest fingernails in the world.

She has not cut her fingernails since 1979. The combined length of her fingernails are 7 meters and 51 centimeters long (24 feet, 8 inches) . She has an active life despite of her long fingernails. Lee Redmond is in the Guinness Book of World Records in the category Longest Fingernails - Female.

On February 10, 2009, Lee was in a car crash, and was thrown out of the car. She was badly hurt and all her fingernails were broken off. [1]

Lee Redmond died in Utah on December 14, 2023, at the age of 82.[2]

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  1. "Woman's record-length fingernails broken in crash". web.archive.org. 15 February 2009. Archived from the original on 15 February 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. Newman, Vicki (December 18, 2023). "Lee Redmond, who once had the longest fingernails ever, dies just days before Christmas". Guinness World Records. Retrieved December 18, 2023.

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