US woman nails world record - for nails

Walton, who sings in Vegas and 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.

Now that she has the Guinness record, she's ready to think about dusting off the clippers. The only hitch: she'll have to pare the nails back a little bit at a time.

Claxton said the nails record, and other eye-popping achievements trumpeted in the Guinness Book of Records, had nothing in common with the kind of cruelty depicted in the movie The Elephant Man, where a deformed man is paraded as a human curiosity.