A Las Vegas singer has been named the woman with the longest nails in the world.
Chris Walton, who has a combined total of nearly six metres of nails, celebrated in New York after being featured in the newly released edition of the Guinness Book of Records.
Arriving by black stretch limousine, Walton, a flamboyant 45-year-old grandmother with a huge bottle-blonde hairdo, posed for photos on the steps of the New York Public Library.
The nail on her ring finger is the length of a human arm, her left pinky is the length of a fire hydrant, and it would take only 484 versions of her left thumb nail to stretch all the way up to the top of the Empire State Building.
Walton, who goes by the stage name The Dutchess, has been growing her nails for 18 years.
She says she doesn't drink milk or stick to any other nail-friendly diet.
