{"id":29210,"date":"2013-08-20T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29210"},"modified":"2013-08-20T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:21:53","slug":"the-real-life-rapunzel-world-record-holder-says-her-55ft-long-dreadlocks-could-paralyse-her-but-she-will-never-cut-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29210","title":{"rendered":"The real life Rapunzel: World record holder says her 55ft long dreadlocks could paralyse her but she will never cut them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Asha<\/a>She is the real life Rapunzel with 55ft long dreadlocks that are longer than a bus.<\/p>\n

Despite being warned by doctors that her hair that weighs three stone could paralyse her, Asha Mandela said she will never cut them.<\/p>\n

The mother-of-one from Atlanta, Georgia, said: ‘My hair has become part of me. It is my life. I will never cut it.<\/p>\n

‘Cutting it would be equivalent to suicide. It would be like being a zombie.’<\/p>\n

Mrs Mandela, 47, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest dreadlocks.<\/p>\n

It takes two days to wash and dry her hair, which weighs the same as a reception-age child, and is even heavier when wet.<\/p>\n

It can also get easily trapped in doors or snag on bushes.<\/p>\n

But Mrs Mandela worries that ‘someone with a hair fetish’ will cut off a lock of her hair when she is not looking.<\/p>\n

Doctors have also asked her to consider cutting her hair for health reasons, including the risk of bacterial infection.<\/p>\n

But their main concern is the weight.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘The doctors seem to think I have a curvature of my spine and that it’s the length and the weight of my hair that’s making me curve.<\/p>\n

Mrs Mandela, who is happily married to her third husband, was born in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

She began growing her hair 25 years ago following a ‘spiritual calling’.<\/p>\n

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