La. woman has world's largest afro

NAPOLEONVILLE, La., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A Louisiana woman who has been growing her hair out for 12 years was awarded the Guinness World Record for the world's largest afro.

Aevin Dugas of Napoleonville said she applied for the Guinness certification when a friend saw a picture of her afro picked out to its largest point, with a circumference of 4-foot-4, on Facebook and she soon heard back from the record keeping organization, WGNO-TV, New Orleans, reported Tuesday.

"The whole Guinness thing is just a whole bunch of people, different people from all over the world, everywhere. To be included -- that is a big honor," she said.

Dugas said she loves her long hair, but it occasionally gets her into trouble.

"Sometimes it gets in the way. Once I slammed it in a car door," she said.