“The hardest thing for me to do is dig in my pockets,” the 45-year-old rock singer from Las Vegas says. “Everything else I can do myself — driving, shopping, cleaning the house … although when I vacuum, the cord gets tangled in my fingers.” see video

A day before the release of the 2012 Guinness World Records, The Dutchess visited The Huffington Post to talk about her life and celebrate her inclusion in this year’s edition — a celebration of “unique beauty,” including fresh pictures of the world’s longest tongue, the largest afro, and a “holy man” with 453 piercings.

“I never set out to make it into Guinness,” she says. “It just happened.” “One day I stopped cutting my nails. I liked the way they looked. And they just kept growing.”

With five kids and three grandchildren, The Dutchess considers herself a very young, very active, hard-rockin’ grandma. Her forthcoming single, “Phoenix,” off the album “Live And Let Live” drops later this month.

“The nail on the middle finger of her left hand is as long as two Nathan’s hot dogs [22 inches],” said Guinness marketing manager Stuart Claxton.

“The average skateboard is about the same size as the thumbnail on her right hand [35 inches].”

The Dutchess had her famous fingers lacquered in glittering gold. She painted them herself, and laughed when asked how many bottles of nail polish she uses in a single session.

“A man wouldn’t ask that question,” she says. “It depends on the brand, and how it goes on.”

Fashion, however, can be a challenge, but “when a girl sees what she wants,” she says, “she goes out and gets it.”

Jackets need buttons or zippers installed on the sleeves. Tying a shoe is tricky, but not impossible.

As for sports: “I don’t swim, but it’s not the nails that stop me. It’s a hair thing.”

Lee Redmond, the last woman to hold the World’s Longest Fingernails record, broke hers in an auto accident. Redmond’s nails were 34 to 35 inches in length, and collectively were nearly 10 feet longer than her successor, requiring nearly 30 years to grow.

The Utah retiree, now 70, decided to keep her nails short after the accident, telling the AP that she found it easier to do simple things with her hands.

The Dutchess, however, can’t imagine clipping, and doesn’t even want to think about an accident. When she’s in a crowd, she’ll count on a friend or family member to walk in front of her so she doesn’t get bumped.

“They’re kind of like a body part that I’ve lived with for years,” she says. “I don’t know what I would do without them. I’ve adjusted the way I’ve lived for so long, it would be hard to go back.”

And to those women who have trouble growing their nails, The Dutchess says she doesn’t have a special diet. As a vegetarian, she doesn’t drink milk, nor does she take nutritional supplements.

“I eat a lot of candy, and I have a lot of patience.”

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Over the weekend the 39-year-old funnyman was reportedly arrested following a run-in with a tractor driver.

According to TMZ, law enforcement officials stated that a man, who was doing landscaping on the Palmdale, California home where Williams

was staying, suffered facial injuries stemming from an attack in which three women approached his tractor and began throwing rocks at him

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The unidentified man then proceeded to call his wife, who attempted to pick her husband up from the California residence, before Williams

pulled up in an SUV which blocked the couples exit. The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department arrived on the scene shortly after and arrested

the three women for assault with a deadly weapon and Williams with intimidating a witness. His bail was set at $50,000 and he was released

later that night.

Upon his release, the ‘Friday After Next’ star took to his Twitter account to share his thoughts on people who find themselves caught up in

the law. “If you admit to crimes on social networks or post evidence #youdumbashell,” he wrote.

Although Williams may have tried to make light of Saturday’s incident, his growing rap sheet is no laughing matter.

In November 2009, Williams made headlines for an alleged burglary in which he was accused of taking nearly $4,000 worth of jewelry and

collectible coins from a suburban Atlanta home. Just a few days after that, a 17-year-old claimed Williams held him and “threatened” to

beat him up if he left a Newman, Ga. estate where Williams was staying at the time.

That same month The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the comedian was kicked out of his rented penthouse suite in Atlanta’s Four

Seasons hotel, due to employees complaining that he was causing a disturbance among other guests.

“I haven’t been here 72 hours and I’m being kicked out of the Four Seasons even though I paid up front and in cash,” he said at the time

during a press conference. “I don’t understand. I’m at the point now where I’m standing out here with millions of dollars in movies and TV

specials sold, and most of them done right here in Atlanta. And to be ceremoniously dismissed at a hotel is sad.”

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See I really hate to cry racism in a situation like this, because I truly DO NOT think a hispanic woman who choses to adopt a black child would have any level of racist tendencies, especially towards a baby. So explain to me how you can easily raise 5 latin children , but cannot handle a tiny black baby ? Was she not prepared for the cultural shock of raising a black child in a hispanic family? Maybe she isn’t strong enough to handle the stares and the double takes she may be getting from her community.. Or maybe she just realized she was in over her head..either way, I am very disgusted by her openly adding blame to the BABY for her issue with it!

What makes me even angrier is that there are many women (white of course) who “admire” her honesty and don’t think she is wrong to do this..I wonder if they would feel the same way if the baby was white, and after 18 months she gave the baby back and blamed it for not bonding with her. I think this is very suspect and maybe she just wanted to be like Angelina Jolie too much and figured out you can’t fake love for a black child. I can tell you Angelina loves her kids, you can see it on her face , but this woman is weak, and that child is better off without her sorry butt. Read the story and watch the video ….

The “Today” show on NBC did a shocking segment on Anita Tedaldi, “a woman who adopted a child and then gave him up 18 months later.” Tedaldi is a writer who originally told this story on The New York Times’ Motherlode blog.

She and her husband have five biological children and decided that they wanted more. After going through the approval process, she was able to adopt a baby who was found by the side of a road. Despite her pre-adoption belief that she would “be able to parent this little boy the same way I had done with my biological daughters,” she terminated the adoption after 18 months.

Because she couldn’t bond with him, she said.

Asked by Matt Lauer what this means, Tedaldi was somewhat vague and did manage to blame the baby. “It went both ways,” she said in the interview. “The child, D., wasn’t connecting with us.”

What on earth is she talking about? Without giving us particulars, we’re left to wonder what went on in that house for a year-and-a-half? Was Baby D. not a hugger? Did he not smile? What does it mean exactly that an infant is not bonding with his mother?

Lauer really missed the boat by not pressing this question. And Tedaldi, but averting a direct explanation, only adds to the frustration and creates more questions.

Writing about the story, “Today” correspondent Natalie Morales thinks that we shouldn’t be too quick to judge the woman. Many commenters on the “Today” show Web site agree.

But what no one is saying is that ultimately this story is about the one thing that it shouldn’t be about — Anita Tedaldi. One of the not-discussed-enough aspects of the mommy blogosphere is how often it becomes All About Mom. This story is a classic case of that.

Not only did Tedaldi give back a baby she had decided to adopt, she actually says that the baby shares some of the responsibility for this lack of bonding. Is it possible that it’s just damn hard to raise a baby when you already have a house full of children? And that Tedaldi didn’t realize this until the child arrived?

Explain it to us, lady. What happened?

Ironically, Tedaldi used to feel the same way we did, and wrote a column for Military.com called “We Can’t Trade In Our Children or Husbands” back in January 2008. (Military.com has pulled the piece, but the Adoption Talk blog has some of the text.) Now that she has had this experience, she feels differently

Hey, no harm no foul, right?

But there is harm. There is a baby involved here.

In the original Times blog, Tedaldi wrote that she “wasn’t connecting with [the baby] on the visceral level I experienced with my biological daughters.”

Perhaps that was part of the problem? She wanted to duplicate her parenting experience with her older kids frame-for-frame. We have no way of knowing unless we hear details.

Many are praising this mom for her honesty. We can’t help but wonder how much of the story she decided not to share with the world.

What do you think?

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Aimee Louise Sword gave up a male child for adoption years ago, and now the media is reporting that Sword searched the internet for that now teenage son- and allegedly seduced him. But Aimee Louise Sword has many defenders standing with her saying “She could not do such a thing”…….The 35 year old Michigan woman is charged with third-degree criminal sexual misconduct…….. Remember- Innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. (Pic from CBS Link/My Space)

Note: Updated news reports are now saying that Ms.Sword “raped” the teen and that the teen may have been unaware that she was his biological mother .

 

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While Jackson died leaving millions of dollars in debt accrued in part by wild spending, he raised or donated enormous sums of money to charity during his long career. A full list of Jackson’s charitable activities was complied by JacksonAction, including millions donated to the Michael Jackson Burn Center for Children, $1.5 donated to the Michael Jackson UNCF Endowed Scholarship Fund and more.
The issue of race is next up for O’Reilly, who asks, “Why are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton making this a racial deal? Jackson bleached his own skin. And then chose white men to provide existence for his in vitro children. Give me a break with all this.”

Guest analyst Marc Lamont Hill, PhD – an African American FOX commentator – responds, “You have me baffled in your analysis here, to say this isn’t a racial issue, when this man’s entire career has been marked by the tropes of race… Yes, the black community has embraced him, yes the black community has wrapped its arms around him more in death, but that’s because the media has assaulted him in ways they don’t do with white people of his stature.”

Hill continues, “Now he has passed away. A year or two ago, when Jerry Falwell died, you and I debated this very point. You said, ‘Give him three days to a week and let the people mourn him before you start talking about his racist politics.’ So why are we giving Jerry Falwell something that we won’t give Michael Jackson?”
The two went back and forth on whether Michael Jackson had served as a bridge between black and white Americans. The debate devolved into a shouting match, which reached its peaked with O’Reilly shouting, “If he’s such a black American icon, why did he have his kids with white men!?”
Hill answers, “That’s a personal matter. That doesn’t make him less black – there’s no blackness meter here. You don’t become less black if you have a white kid.”

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Scary NY welcome for French tourists: police chase

Ester-Ethy Mamane, left, and her mother Claudie Mamane speak to reporters during a during a news conference Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in New York. The French tourists got a harrowing start to their New York visit: a wild police chase.

NEW YORK – Five French tourists got a harrowing start to their New York visit: a wild police chase.

As they looked for a ride at the Air France terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday morning, the visitors were lured to a van that was not licensed to provide taxi service, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman John Kelly said.

Plainclothes police recognized the man who enticed the tourists, Ian McFarland, as a repeat offender previously arrested for corralling passengers into unlicensed cars. A Port Authority officer reached inside the van to try and grab the keys, but the driver, Khaalif Preacher, sped off with the tourists inside, knocking the officer to the ground, Kelly said.

Port Authority police sped after the van, which snaked through residential streets and traveled about seven miles through two boroughs before it crashed through a gate at a U.S. Postal Service facility in the East New York section of Brooklyn.

The tourists said they screamed and prayed during the chase.

“I was scared,” Paris resident Esther-Ethy Mamane, 26, said Wednesday at a news conference. Mamane and her mother, Claudie, traveled to New York to attend a religious seminar. She said she tried to keep the other passengers inside the van calm during the chaos.

Preacher and McFarland jumped out while the van was still moving. Mamane said there was smoke and the rear doors wouldn’t open from the inside, so she jumped out the front as the van rolled and ran around to open the doors. Mamane’s mother tried to jump from the van, fell and the vehicle rolled over her arm. She was treated at a hospital and released. Mamane and the other passengers, a woman and her parents, were not injured.

Meanwhile, police chased the two suspects on foot and arrested them. They were awaiting arraignment Wednesday on charges of second-degree assault, second-degree assault on an officer, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and unlawful solicitation of ground transportation services, the Queens district attorney’s office said. It wasn’t clear whether they had attorneys.

Claudie and Esther-Ethy Mamane were given a bag full of New York City goodies, including tickets to the Broadway show “Chicago,” passes to the Museum of Modern Art and transit fare cards at a news conference Wednesday. The other tourists decided not to attend.

The women, who spoke little English, said they were grateful to the Port Authority officers who never let the van out of their sight, and they are looking forward to a good trip in New York.

“We are happy to be here; we love New York and New Yorkers,” Claudie Mamane said through a French translator. “We never lost faith. And at any time we never thought it would end badly for us.”

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Watch out Tyra..Mr. Crazy Pants is back on the loose.

The man who stalked supermodel-turned-TV personality Tyra Banks was sentenced to a year probation and ordered to complete a treatment program designed for stalkers.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Burke ordered Brady Green, 39, to stay away from Banks for the next two years. The Dublin, Ga native would face up to 90 days in jail if he disobeys any of the court’s orders.

Green and his lawyer left court this afternoon without talking to the media.

As previously reported by The BV Newswire, Green was convicted in April of stalking Banks from coast to coast – calling her offices, showing up at her TV studios and sending her flowers.
Police said he threatened to cut a staffer’s throat for not telling him where Banks was.

When he was arrested last spring, at a McDonald’s restaurant near Banks’ Manhattan studio, he allegedly told officers they “had a thing together.”

The former ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover girl did not attend Green’s sentencing, but she testified during his trial that she feared for her safety, and for that of her staff and family.

He, in turn, testified that he was a fan of the ‘America’s Next Top Model’ producer and had been enthusiastic about trying to get tickets for her Emmy Award winning show. He said his actions had been misunderstood.
Tyra Banks
Assistant District Attorney Sean McMahon, however, reportedly provoked Green to admit that he rode a bus for four days from Los Angeles to New York where he had no friends, relatives or job, and the first he thing he did was go to the Chelsea neighborhood building that houses Banks’ studio.

Banks said that because of Green, her company hired more security staff, her studio audiences are vetted more thoroughly, and security guards follow her everywhere.

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Wright says the award winners show that not all Americans are “stuck on stupid.” He also joked that when Obama was considering a presidential bid, he told Wright not to say anything that would upset Iowa farmers. Wright became a flashpoint in the presidential campaign when videos surfaced showing his sometimes provocative sermons.

Wright agreed to take written-only questions after the talk, according to the Ames Tribune. He was asked why he remained defiant in his spring 2008 appearance before the National Press Club.
“I condensed 500 years of African church history into 30 minutes, and not one question I was asked afterward had anything to do with my paper,” Wright was quoted as saying.

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Lafayette French Bakery, a pastry shop in New York’s Greenwich Village, started selling “Drunken Negro Face” cookies on Martin Luther King Day in ‘honor’ of President Obama.

One customer told My Fox NY that store owner Ted Kefalinos said to her, “Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”

Kefalinos spoke with Gothamist, and denied suggesting that Obama would be assassinated. However, he saw nothing wrong with the cookies themselves.

Later, he apologized to the New York Daily News.

“I’m sorry that people were offended by the cookie. We were just trying to make a large number of people happy, and instead we made a large number of people confused and angry.”

In a followup interview with My Fox NY, Kefalinos said he had been getting death threats over the cookies. Watch:

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It appears that this racist pig has had so many threats from people that his phone is ringing off the hook. Instead of that arogant smirk he had in the previous clip, he now has a look of fear on his face because he knows his much beloved bakery will be out of buisness within in month. See this is why I love New Yorkers. They do not fu*k around. I love being liberal, I love NYC, and I love my white brothers and sisters who live there who always keeps it real!

Watch this sorry sack of dough attempt a real apology this time.

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The rapper’s reality show, “50 Cent: The Money and the Power,” won’t be back.

After only six episodes, the series, which was shot in Brooklyn, appears to be the victim of poor ratings and lack of buzz.

Fifty’s show attempted to discover the next hip-hop mogul among 14 wannabes – ranging from an 18-year-old youth counselor, who describes himself as “grandma’s little hustler,” to a guy whose family owns six businesses and raps, “I’ve got more ladies than Fifty’s got Mercedes.”

In a lineup full of rappers-turned-reality stars – Snoop Dogg’s “Father Hood” on E!, Flavor Flav’s “Flavor of Love” on VH1, Rev Run’s “Run’s House,” Diddy’s “Making the Band” and Xhibit’s “Pimp My Ride” on MTV – it’s surprising that the hip-hop star, who survived nine gun shots in 2000, can’t beat bad ratings.

But Fifty’s failure doesn’t signal the end of the reality road for the network, which said last week it has 16 new series in the works.

“Our new shows will feature themes of affirmation and accomplishment,” says Brian Graden, MTV Networks’ vice president of entertainment.

“Our shows are going to focus less on loud and silly hooks and more on young people proving themselves.”

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