World's largest afro attracts attention

Aevin Dugas sports the world's largest natural afro. Her hair was blessed as the biggest by Guinness World Records...

Sep 23, 2011

Susan Langenhennig
The Times-Picayune NOLA.com

There are a few things Aevin Dugas has had to sacrifice for her hairstyle. Peripheral vision is one.

Driving is a problem. Even riding in a car with friends, she get relegated to the back. Blind spots are inevitable when your afro nearly fills the surface area between a car’s windshield and the seat.

Just how big is Dugas’ ‘fro? Four feet, four inches in circumference officially.

Unofficially, on a good hair day, she’s measured it at 5 feet around — as big as a disco ball and almost as wide as the petite, 5-foot-2-inch Dugas is tall.

Dugas sports the world’s largest natural afro. Her hair was blessed as the biggest by Guinness World Records. The folks who compile the annual book of wonders sent a team of Brits with measuring tapes to New Orleans last year as part of their globe-hopping effort to collect “superlative facts” for the 2012 edition. The new book came out last week.

Dugas’ award-winning ‘fro earned her a spot among other such notables as the woman with the world’s longest tongue (measured to an ick-inducing 3.8 inches), the world’s longest fingernails (a shiver-causing 10-feet, 2-inches long) and the guy with the most piercing (just too frightening to describe).

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