Gujarat Girl Who Held The World Record For Having The Longest Hair, Finally Cuts It Off.

Gujarat Girl Who Held The World Record For Having The Longest Hair, Finally Cuts It Off.

Growing up, one of my most favorite disney movies was Tangled. The story of Rapunzel who was locked away in a tower since she was a baby, by a witch. Except, unlike everyone else, I wasn’t attracted to the movie for its story, but more for Rapunzel’s long and magical hair. Long enough to scale the length of the very tower she was captured in, I envied her beautiful locks, always wanting to grow my own hair out. And while I am still stuck at shoulder length, someone who did get to become a real life Rapunzel was a girl from Gujarat with the longest hair in the world.

Nilanshi Patel from Modasa in Gujarat, the girl who won the Guinness World Record for having the longest hair in the world three years ago, finally cut her precious locks first time in 12 years.

Having made the world record when she was just 16 years old, Nilanshi had hair measuring up to a whopping 170.5 centimeters back then. Which is almost 5 feet and 6 inches, making her hair as long as an average human. And the last time she checked the length of her hair, they had reached 200 cms in July 2020.

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With this, she once again bagged the title of being the teenager to have the world’s longest hair, at the age of 18. However, now after years and years of growing her hair and tending to them with utmost care, she decided to chop them off. With a video posted on the internet that showed how her hair were being cut, the caption read, “Longest haired teen @nilanshipatel_rapunzel has finally had a haircut.”

Nilanshi talks in the video about her haircut and says, ““I’m so excited and a little bit nervous because I don’t know how I’m looking in the new hairstyle. So, let’s see what happens, but I hope it’s going to be amazing.” She also added, “My hair has given me a lot. But it’s time to cut it. I’ll miss you a lot, buddy.” And if this wasn’t the making of an amicable break-up, we don’t know what is!

In the video she is also shown kissing her hair goodbye, before embracing the big change. Having been growing them since she was 6 years old, we can imagine the level of attachment. As far as her locks are considered, Guinness World Records offered Nilanshi three options to choose from –  auctioning it off, donating it to charity for cancer patients, or donating it to a museum. Her mother made the call of donating her locks to the museum as her record-breaking story was inspirational and promised to donate her own hair to cancer patients.

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