(FOX 9) – Everybody has one thing about them that makes them really feel distinctive.

But it surely would not take lengthy to place a finger on what makes Diana Armstrong so particular.

“I used to be actually shocked about it as a result of to me, I did not suppose they have been that lengthy. However to different individuals they have been lengthy. However I did not suppose so on the time,” Armstrong says.

Guinness says this 63-year-old grandmother from Minneapolis set a brand new report for having the longest fingernails on the planet.

“I assumed somebody was taking part in a joke on me, I actually did, so I hung up on them. Then two or three days later, I informed my daughter about it, she mentioned ‘Mother it’s best to take their cellphone name’.

All collectively they measure 42 ft, 10 inches lengthy and take two dozen bottles of polish and a couple of days for her grandchildren to do her nails annually.

“Some individuals say ‘ooh, they’re so stunning’. Then different individuals make faces. so I keep in the home more often than not,” she defined.

Armstrong says she’s at all times had lengthy nails like her mom, however since her 16-year-old daughter Latisha, who used to manicure Armstrong’s nails each weekend, died from an bronchial asthma assault in her sleep 25 years in the past… Armstrong says she will be able to’t bear to chop them.

“Anytime I thought of reducing them off, it gave me chills like I am going via that grief yet again. I did not wish to undergo that once more, so I simply saved them. It is like holding her near me,” Armstrong says.

The size of Armstrong’s fingernails could make it troublesome to do many each day duties, like selecting garments or cash from the ground.

“If it is one thing on the ground, if I ball it up or curl it up, I exploit my toes. If I’ve to select up a cellphone or one thing, I am going to cross them and decide it up,” she says.

However in terms of holding her daughter’s reminiscence alive, Armstrong has obtained it nailed.

“Once I began rising them, it wasn’t to be within the Guinness E book Of World Information,” she mentioned. “Now since I’m, I inform individuals, you should not decide individuals as a result of you do not know what individuals have gone via.”