Cousin Itt … er, Woman With Really Long Hair Found in China.



Today’s collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this photo:

Xia Aifeng, 36, stands on a chair as her daughter checks her hair at their home in Shangrao, in east China’s Jiangxi province. Xia has not cut her hair for 16 years and it has grown to 2.42 metres long. She has to spend 90 minutes washing it once a week.

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Posted on April 16, 2007 at 12:14 pm by Alex
Category: Pictures, World Records



28 Comments to "Cousin Itt … er, Woman With Really Long Hair Found in China."

  • Rhea
    April 16th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    There’s something about really long hair that grosses me out. I don’t know what it is.

  • Miss Cellania
    April 16th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    Looks like she normally keeps it in a braid. Otherwise, she’d never be able to keep it combed!

  • Sid
    April 16th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    Yeah, I like long hair, but not when it gets THAT long. It looks creepy and nasty, kind of like Cousin It.

    Hopefully she keeps it up if she is working in one of the many farms, mines, or sweatshopss in the Jiangxi province of Red China. There’s no OSHA there and long hair does not mix well with rotating machinery.

  • Sheldon Siegel
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    Wonder if she lets the hair in “other places” grow un-trimmed.

  • akashayi
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    Ack, Sayoko lives and has really long hair.

  • secret man agent
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

    I wonder if all that hair would make it tougher for her to crawl through a tv.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Yamamura

  • Bryan
    April 16th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    When I cut off my glorious hippie hair a few years ago, I was astonished by how much it weighed - and I had never noticed! My head felt at least a pound lighter. I imagine this lady’s hair must weigh quite a bit more than that.

  • Francis
    April 16th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    She looks like the little girl in “The Ring”, scary stuff

  • Xopl
    April 16th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    “You helped her?! She never sleeps!”

    I guess Samara had a daughter.

    SEVEN DAYS!

  • Jason
    April 16th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    Great. I have a “long hair” fetish and now I need a cold shower.

  • Aramax
    April 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    Seven days…

  • rocio
    April 16th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    i’m terrified. this is like the chick from the ring.

    eep.

  • Ali
    April 16th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    RINGU!!!!! O_o

  • Nihilist
    April 16th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

    Did you just say once a week?

  • Robert
    April 17th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    Can’t see her face … she probably has a Fu-Manchu mustache. Like Sheldon said, mons veneris is likely bald as an egg. What does YOUR fortune cookie say?

  • anaconda
    April 19th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    wow i would like to marry her and give her a tough time in bed

  • S
    August 1st, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    Thats really creepy I mean long hair is nice but thats ridiculous i mean really WHY????

  • nelly
    August 25th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    my dad won’t even let me have my hair cut. i really want it to be layered, feathered and a fringe but my dad sed that i have to grow really long. how unfair!!! if any1 has horrid hair n there dad wont let em av there hair cut i no how u feel

  • deirdre feehan
    September 23rd, 2007 at 10:58 am

    lads, that is some head of hair!!

  • ponzer
    November 12th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    i doubt that her hair is that long, i havent cut my hair in over 10 years due to religious purposes, and i believe its the longest its gonna get, and has stayed there for years. which is like down to my elbows at best..

    i dont think its true, if u dont cut ur hair ur hair will reach a max limit in which it will not grow again until it is cut, which is like at the most down to the butt, but not below that, down to the floor or the knees is just bs, same thing with all other hair on your body, your arms, your pubic, your beard, or anywhere, it will eventually stop growing until u cut it, and if u cut it, it will grow back until it reaches that max limit again! i highly doubt that this is true.

  • ponzer
    November 12th, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    i doubt that her hair is that long, i havent cut my hair in 10 years due to religious purposes, and i believe its the longest its gonna get, which is like down to my elbows at best..

    i dont think its true, if u dont cut ur hair ur hair will reach a max limit in which it will not grow again until it is cut, which is like at the most down to the butt, but not below that, down to the floor or the knees is just bs, same thing with all other hair on your body, your arms, your pubic, your beard, or anywhere, it will eventually stop growing until u cut it, i dont think this is true guys.

  • zom-b
    November 12th, 2007 at 7:42 pm

    COUSIN IT!!! =D

  • SM
    November 17th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    In response to ponzer:

    My hair isn’t very long, it’s just between the length of my waist and the length of my shoulders; and I think yours has not grown for a long time or is staying the same because it has reached it’s terminal length. Terminal length has to do with your hair’s genetic growth cycle and nothing, time nor fancy expensive products will make your hair grow past it’s terminal length. Rarely because of some people’s genetics they don’t have a terminal length. When I say they don’t have a terminal length that doesn’t mean that if you have hair to the floor that your hair can grow a mile. There is actually a woman in the Guinness Book of World Records that has had her hair verified to be past 18 feet long, (yes, it’s her real hair attached to her real scalp without any extensions). There is even a man, (who is yet to be verified), that claims to have 20 feet of hair and this is a little less likely, not due to the length but the condition in which he keeps it. But think about it: a few percent of people in the world, (population being nearly 7,000,000,000) have no terminal length. They could grow it as long as they’d wanted, say they stopped getting it cut, maybe a few trims a year, and they kept it growing for a few decades in good health washing it when necessary, not using any harsh heat, bleaches, etc., and they had a good diet. Do you really think someone couldn’t reach 20 ft., let alone 2.42 metres of hair?

  • SM
    November 17th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Also, this also explains the whole trimming thing you posted about:

    http://www.howstuffworks.com/question100.htm

    ( Trimming head hair is good for your hair because of the fact that if there is damage, such as split ends, on your hair then that will stop it from tearing more up the strand. It isn’t 100% necessary for you to trim your hair in order for it to grow, but it would greatly help the health of your hair :) )

  • jade
    January 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 am

    its just freakishly long. m a ryt weirdo. n i wud neva grow my hair to that extent. al that crap about it not growing if you dnt get it cut is jst pure ballex. try doing hairdressing first b4 you make comments like that. yes it helps the condition of your hair bt nothing mre. your hair grows frm the root and nt from your ends. need to do some studying people. neways. if shes happy. then so be it. each to there own.

  • Holly
    January 26th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    She should sell her hair. If it’s in good condition she could make alot of money off it.

  • Emily
    March 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Hmm… My hair isn’t nearly this long, though I’m aiming for about half that length. I always keep my fringe (longer than my chin) in my face, so people sometimes call me, or say I look like, ‘the girl from the ring’ or ‘Cousin It’, not that I go out in public much. The bangs are to keep people from seeing my face… Nyar, the comments just made me think about this.

  • sbg
    March 6th, 2008 at 1:43 am

    I like your hair very much. I hope you can keep it forever. No mater what others said. It,s you own bussiness. Keep it up.


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