Ataye Eligidagne-20, from Southern Ethiopia is the woman with the largest lips in the world.
Ataye dons a lip disc 59.5cm in circumference and 19.5 cm in diameter – more than 4cm larger than the Guinness World Record. And was able to insert the adornment after three years of stretching her lip and removing two of her bottom teeth.
An Australian film crew – led by cinematographer Abrahem Joffe – stumbled across the young mum while filming a documentary series for Canon Australia.
Among the Surma and Mursi people of the lower Omo River valley in Ethiopia, young women aged 15-18 have their lips pierced by a female in their family six to 12 months before marriage.
It is tradition that after the wound has healed a clay lip plate is inserted, which every woman crafts herself.
The discs are meant to attract husbands and dowry for the family of the wife, with an award of cattle made respective to the size of the disk.
Abrahem Joffe told the Daily Mail: "I think that locally, it's a matter of pride.
"The larger the disc, the more impressive. Young people try to outdo each other all over the world.
"She said it was not painful at all and there weren't any adverse affects."
source - Mirror
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