“All things are strange which are worth knowing.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice
This world comprises of various weird things. Some weird animals, some plants and some human beings as well. There are people who exist on this planet, who you will not find very usual or normal. They are unique in their own way and they have their own peculiarities to talk about. Imagine a woman with extra large lips or actually Rapunzel like hair, or a man with 100% of his body covered with tattoos. It is weird and here is the list of people like them:
1 – Grace ‘Mule Face Woman’ McDaniels
Grace, referred to as the Mule Face Woman, suffered from a genetic disorder that caused her elephantiasis of the lips. She gave birth to a son and made money out of her unusual looks.
2 – Rolf Buchholz
A German man with over 453 piercings on his body, 248 of which are around his genitals, who has been inducted into Guinness World Records as the most pierced man in the world.
3 – Mayra ‘Mountain Dew’ Hills
Mayra got several breast-augmentation surgeries until she reached the last letter of the alphabet 32Z, and she holds the record for the world’s biggest breast implants.
4 – Jyoti Amge
The shortest teenager and the shortest woman in the world, she stands at 2 ft and 0.6 inches as a result of achondroplasia, one of the main causes of dwarfism.
5 – Gail ‘Parliament In The Buff’ Porter
Once a Scottish Model, she developed alopecia, a condition characterized by the loss of hair in 2005, and decided not to wear a wig to hide the condition.
6 – Valeria ‘Barbie Girl’ Lukyanova
This Ukrainian descent woman is known all over the world as Barbie Girl because of her barbie doll looks achieved by various surgeries and strict diet routine.
7 – Ram Singh Chauhan
Ram has been growing his moustache since years and it is officially the longest moustache in the world, about 14 foot long.
8 – Francisco Domingo Joaquim
Francisco Domingo Joaquim of Angola has the biggest mouth recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
9 – Burma’s Tribal Women
The Kayan women of Burma called ‘Giraffe Women’ wear brass ring coils around their necks that seemingly elongate their necks, but in actuality, they push the clavicle down and compress the rib cage.
10 – Abigail & Brittany Hensel
Abigail and Brittany Hensel are one woman, or two, or maybe even one and a half, with 2 hearts, 3 lungs, 3 kidneys, 2 stomachs, and 1 large and 1 small intestine and have an ability to anticipate what the other one will be thinking.
11 – Jocelyn ‘Cat Lady’ Wildenstein
Jocelyn Wildenstein born into a middle-class family married a renowned art dealer, Alec Wildenstein, who had an obsessive love of big cats (tigers, lions, oh my) and Jocelyn began to get plastic surgeries to approximate what a big cat/human hybrid would look like and most probably she succeeded.
12 – Kristina ‘Duckface’ Rei
Kristina Rei decided to get lip implants done as it took too much effort to have to pucker out her lips for every one of the 700 selfies-a-day millennials take these days. She now has the world’s biggest lips, tattooed one side of her head, got horns implanted and a freaky haircut to match.
13 – Jasmine ‘Total Recall’ Tridevil
Jasmine Tridevil stated that she had a third breast added surgically.
14 – Mandy Sellars
Born with a genetic disorder, where her legs never stop growing. Official website
15 – Charity ‘Just One More Bite’ Pierce
The biggest woman in the world who weighed 756 lbs, has recently lowered the amount of calories she eats from 10,000 a day to 1,200 a day, and has started exercising, but after 4 weeks had only lost 22 lbs.
16 – Kim Goodman
She can make her eyeballs pop out like crazy.
17 – Sultan Kosen
Sultan Kosen, a farmer from Turkey, is the current tallest man in the world standing at 8 foot 3 inches.
18 – Tom Staniford
An English para-cyclist who has MDP Syndrome, a rare condition that has affected 8 people in history.
19 – Dede ‘Tree Man’ Koswara
Also known as the Tree Man because of his uncontrolled HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), and died just recently, on January 30th, 2016.
20 – Robert ‘Pony Boy’ Huddleston
Known as Pony Boy, he was healthier than the average person and found the way he walked completely natural.
21 – Aneta ‘She-Hulk’ Florczyk
A Polish Strongwoman, Aneta Florczyk doesn’t look like your typical female body builder. She crushes frying pans with her bare hands, literally ‘rolling’ them up! She can do 5 in one minute.
22 – Nick Stoeberl
Nick Stoeberl is the proud owner of the world’s longest tongue measuring 3.98 inches in length.
23 – Byron Schlenker
Byron is the holder of Guinness World Records’ widest tongue record, her daughter also bears a very wide tongue.
24 – Melvin Boothe
Melvin Boothe has the longest nails in the world.
25 – Vijay ‘Elastic Man’ Sharma
Vijay hails from India where he loves to drink a coke bottle, while holding it with his foot, which is wrapped around his body, and is known as the Elastic Man.
26 – Michele Koebke
Michele Koebke, has the world’s smallest waist, a whopping 16 inches around.
27 – Female Body Builders
Steroids seem like a good solution to build muscles, except that they begin to look more like men.
28 – Mikel ‘Datass’ Ruffinelli
She has got the biggest butt in the world. Measuring in at a circumference of 8 feet.
29 – Tran Van Hay
Tran Van Hay has the world’s longest dreadlocks, about 22.31 feet long.
30 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi
Shortest man in the world, stood at 1 foot and 9.5 inches. He was born in Nepal and died recently.
31 – Asha ‘Rapunzel’ Mandela
Asha Mandela got sick and the sickness lasted for 15 years. During that time, to prevent her hair breaking she began to tie it in knots and first time she went for the Guiness World Record, she forgot to untie her hair that broke the record at 8 feet 6 inches long. Untied hair measured 19 feet 6.5 inches.
32 – Julia ‘The Illustrated Lady’ Gnuse
She tattoos covering 95% of the body and developed Porphyria, a skin condition sometimes called an “allergy to the sun”, like vampires. She is officially the most tattooed woman in the world.
33 – Lucky Diamond Rich
The man is officially recognized as the most tattooed person in the world by Guinness World Records having tattoos on 100% of his body.
34 – Billy Owen
The professional zombie actor and cancer survivor.
35 – Gary Turner
Gary is the man with the stretchiest skin in the world.
Melvin Boothe, the guy with the fingernails, how does he wipe his butt???
Describing those people as “freaks”is inhumane and ignorant. Try using a term that respects their dignity.