{"id":55151,"date":"2013-11-30T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=55151"},"modified":"2013-11-30T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T03:12:11","slug":"my-14in-nails-are-my-babies-ive-named-the-longest-one-miss-attitude-childminder-54-hasnt-cut-her-talons-for-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=55151","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My 14in nails are my babies &#8211; I&#8217;ve named the longest one Miss Attitude&#8217;: Childminder, 54, hasn&#8217;t cut her talons for EIGHT years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-55147\" alt=\"\u056f\u056b\u0576,\u0565\u0572\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0563\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails.jpg 638w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails-389x300.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A mother-of-four has says she has spent an astonishing \u00a310,000 in keeping her 14-inch nails in tip-top shape and has not cut them for over eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Larue Drummond, 54, started growing her nails out at age 13 as a cure for compulsive nail biting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-55148\" alt=\"\u053c\u0561\u0580\u0578\u0582 \u0534\u0580\u0561\u0574\u0578\u0576\u0564, \u0565\u0572\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0563\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails1.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails1.jpg 638w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-woman-fingernails1-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a>Now she says her extreme talons are like her babies and she can spend up to 12 hours at a time getting them pampered.<\/p>\n<p>LaRue shells out hundreds having her nails coloured and adorned with rhinestones.<\/p>\n<p>The grandmother-of-eight says she attracts attention wherever she goes from people curious about her extreme nails.<\/p>\n<p>And while her look is shocking to many, LaRue says she wants to grow them even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Up until eight years ago LaRue, from New Jersey, USA, kept her nails at a &#8216;sensible&#8217; three inches, but then decided to grow them as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>LaRue spends 30 minutes cleaning her nails every day and gets her nails shaped and painted each month, costing \u00a3100 for a session, which can last up to 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A mother-of-four has says she has spent an astonishing \u00a310,000 in keeping her 14-inch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}