Entered the Guinness Book of Records

A girl grows 6 feet 3 inches long hair to donate to charity

• He went with her friend.

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A Pakistani girl has grown her hair six feet three inches for 17 years, but finally decided to cut it to donate to charity.

When Dahab Kamal Khan was 13 years old, her hair reached the middle of her back, when her father, Mustafa Kamal Khan, suggested that she never cut it, arguing that long hair would make her special, and possibly earn her a record in the Guinness Book of Records.

"I've been trying to get into Guinness for a long time, but I needed a lot of support," says Dahab from her friend Rhea's family home in Falls Church, Virginia.

Riya gave her this support.

The two met last year when Rhea, 19, was training in squash after graduating from Marshall High School in Falls Church.

Her coach at McLean Raquet and Health was Dhahab, a 30-year-old professional player from Karachi, Pakistan.

Distinctive "gold"

Rhea soon realized that Dahab was special for two reasons: not only is she an "athlete from a part of the world that doesn't always honor female athletes, but she also has really long hair.

But the long hair is not visible when she knots it over her head in a bun, but when she lets it flow like a shiny black waterfall down.

And her grandmother helped her take care of her hair, and she mixed her own oil, dried it in the sun, brushed it, stretched it, and made braids.

Her father says: "His daughter's dream began to come true when she started practicing squash.

Dahab was competing in Karachi in a match against her younger sister Neha, when her hair knot was untied and she stopped to fix it. The media recorded the moment when her hair fell over her shoulders, and she became not just a squash player, but the longest-haired athlete in Pakistan, and perhaps in the world.

Support

Dahab, who moved to the United States in 2018, got the support she needed after meeting Riya.

Last month, Rhea helped her set a Guinness World Record for the most knots of hair in a single person's hair, as Rhea secured 1,100 plastic butterfly clips to Rhea's hair at a press conference at Tysons Beamett Regional Library.

Next Thursday at 10 am, "Gold"'s hair will be cut to a length of 61 inches, which will set her a record in a new category of "Guinness".

It is considered the largest amount of hair donated by a person to a charity.

The beneficiary will be Children with Hair Loss, an organization that supplies wigs to children who need them.

way to promote

The event is also a way to promote Dahab's private charity, Dahab Neha Foundation, which helps poor children in Karachi defray the costs of education and sporting activities.

"I've seen a lot of kids who don't have rackets, and if they have rackets, they are also broken because they don't have shoes," Dahab says.

Dahab also says that the non-profit organization she founded with her sister supports 60 children.

"There are people on Instagram who are trying to convince me not to cut my hair," she says, on the photo-sharing site.

"Some were also supportive of me, while others were definitely against the idea," says her friend, Rhea.

Dahab wonders how the demise of this huge amount of hair will affect her body, as she used to carry a lot of weight on her head for more than half her life, and then it disappears in an instant.

But, she says, "it's something that will happen in just two minutes."

• The event is a way to promote the private charity Dahab, which helps poor children in Karachi defray the costs of education and sporting activities.

• When Dahab Kamal Khan was 13 years old, her hair reached the middle of her back, then her father, Mustafa Kamal Khan, suggested that she never cut it, arguing that long hair would make her special, and perhaps earn her a record in the Guinness Book of Records.

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