1. Cathie Jung: World’s Smallest Waist –15 inches
To be perfectly honest, no Photoshop was used in this image. The incredibly tiny waist of Cathie Jung measures 38cm (15 inches), earning her the perfect title of “hourglass figure.” Aptly naming herself the Queen of Corsets, she has worn corsets for years that were extremely tight-fitting and she appears in the Guinness Book of World Records body parts section of 2007. Currently she continues to hold the record for a living person with the smallest waist. However, the smallest waist ever record is held by Ethel Granger that had a 13″ waist.
2. Svetlana Pankratova: World’s Longest Legs –more than 4 feet lo
According to Guinness World Records, a Russian woman named Svetlana Pankratova has the longest legs of any female on the planet. Despite the fact that she isn’t the tallest woman in the world, she has legs that are 4 feet 4 inches (132 cm) long. She does have typical dimensions for her upper body, which are 6 feet 5 inches (196 cm) tall. Her feet are also very big, with (US) sized 13 or 46 (EU), which make it hard for her to buy shoes. Pankratova was a basketball player in the United States from 1992 – 1995, and during 2008 on September 16th she appeared with the smallest man in the world – He Pingping – at Trafalgar Square in London to highlight the Guinness World Records edition for 2009.
3. Vivian Wheeler: World’s Longest Female Beard –11 inches
Hailing from Illinois, Vivian Wheeler is gifted with having the longest female beard – measuring in at 27.9 cm (11 inches). It was her father that insisted she begin shaving by age 7, but Vivian Wheeler has let her beard grow and has not shaved since 1993.
4. Lui Hua: World’s Largest Hand –his left thumb is 10.2 inches long
Lui Hua, a Chinese man, suffers from macrodactyly which is an uncommon condition. During July of 2007 when Hua was hospitalized in Shanghai, his left thumb was 10.2 inches long and index finger was close to 12. In order to reduce the size of Liu’s thumb and fingers, a 7-hour operation was carried out by surgeons on July 20th. During the procedure there was 11 pounds of bone and flesh removed by the doctors and a second surgery is set to follow.
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