Texas woman’s size 18 feet breaks Guinness World Record

Growing up, Tanya Herbert at all times towered above her classmates.

Now, the Texas lady has earned a Guinness World Record for the size of her feet, breaking the earlier report held by a United Kingdom woman.

Herbert, who lives in Houston, stated she completely outlets for footwear on-line. Her proper foot measures 13.03 inches and her left 12.79 inches, usually a girls’s size 18 or males’s size 16-17.

“Going to the stores was out of the question,” Herbert told Guinness in an interview. “None of the stores I’ve ever been to have carried a men’s size 16 let alone a women’s size 18.”

At 6 feet, 9 inches tall, Herbert is just three inches shorter than the tallest lady alive, Turkey’s Rumeysa Gelgi, who’s 7 feet, 0.7 inches tall.

Herbert’s dad and mom, who have been each nicely over 6 feet tall, instilled confidence in her from an early age, she stated, so her peak by no means bothered her.

For a lot of her life, Herbert solely wore males’s footwear. But social media has helped her join with different girls who wrestle to search out footwear, she advised Guinness. She even picked up tricks to alter smaller footwear to suit her.

“I buy some of the largest shoes I could find online and manipulate those to extend them out a little longer and make them a little wider so that they would fit my feet,” she stated.

Social media has additionally introduced some undesirable consideration, together with from males who ask for images of her feet.

“I never got on social media to be an object of attention or anything like that, or to go into foot fetish world,” she advised Guinness. “Five percent of men that do follow me are the ones who send strange and interesting comments into my inbox asking if I would sell them pictures of my feet.”

Herbert stated she hopes her story will immediate shoe producers to supply extra inclusive shoe sizing, with customizable and reasonably priced choices.

“Being a world record holder may open doors that I may not have been able to get into beforehand,” Herbert stated within the interview. “I want to be a spark to the shoe manufacturing industry.”