The sight of Asha Mandela's hair is like something out of a
movie, hardly believable until you get a second look. At 55 ft., 7 in., one of her dreadlocks is longer than
the length of a bus. The rest of them officially measured 19 ft., 6 in. in 2009
for the Guinness Book of World Records. They weigh
a whopping 39 pounds.(See more pictures and video after the jump)
She is 47 and happily married to her 3rd husband. She has
been keeping the dreads for 25years now. Meanwhile, doctors have advised her to
cut her hair for
health reasons.
# She stopped cutting her hair in her 20s
# The uncut locks is
about 25 years old
# Her hair weighs about 39 pounds (17.7 kg)
# Though she underwent a bilateral mastectomy followed by
chemotherapy in the late 1990s, miraculously, her hair didn't fall out
# In 2008, she was the first person to obtain the Guinness
World Record for longest dreadlocks, and a year later, she broke her own record
with a strand measuring 19 feet, 6 inches.
In 2010, Guinness decided to retire the category, since
dreadlocks can be lengthened by twisting in extensions, making Mandela the
first and only record holder.
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