Meet India’s Very Own Rapunzel

Priyanka Chaudhary from Baghpat, UP has hair longer than her five-feet frame.

Priyanka Chaudhary from vilage Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, whose hair measures 6.5 feet. (Photo: AP screengrab)

An Indian teenager has said goodbye to scissors in the hope of growing the world’s longest hair and making it to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Nineteen-year-old Priya Chaudhary is about five-feet tall but her hair has outgrown her and measures 6.5 feet. Priya, who is no less than a celebrity in her village Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, says “People call me Rapunzel. I am often stopped and asked what I do to maintain it. I feel blessed.”

She credits her mother who has never missed a single day of oiling Priya’s hair.