“They bring the plaque with them so when everything’s written down officially and my dentist signs off on it, she officially gave me the plaque.” “We were there for a good two hours doing multiple measurements - we did five measurements on each side and took the average,” she said. Guinness adjudicator Spencer Cammarano met Ramsdell at her South Norwalk dentist in July to measure her mouth gape one more time, and according to Ramsdell, she knew she was nearing the finish line of securing the title. “They have a list of about two pages long of what you need to send to them…It was six months of back and forth of ‘This needs to be a clearer image’ or ‘You need witnesses and you need them to sign something,’ or ‘You need a doctor’s note.’ It’s intense.”īy June, Ramsdell said she heard from Guinness confirming that she was tracking to become the new record-holder. We’ve been tagged a million times - can you send us some real measurements?’” she said. “They were like, ‘Hey, we saw your TikTok. In January 2021, Ramsdell said Guinness World Records reached out to her. After another video made the rounds on the social media platform, she said Guinness started getting tagged “thousands of times” to see if Ramsdell had a record-breaking mouth. “I joke that it was the children of TikTok that were like, ‘What is with the mouth?’ There are these trends that use this big mouth filter, and I have this joke where I don’t need the filter.”Īs her posts starting going viral, the comments about her mouth also increased. “It kept getting pointed out,” she said of her now-record setting mouth. But when stay-at-home orders kept her away from the city lights, she turned to TikTok and began posting comedy and singing videos, among others in which she made “these crazy or funny faces” with her mouth. Contributed / Samantha RamsdellĬommuting to New York City five nights a week before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the city down in 2020, Ramsdell said she was trying to live her dream of being a singer and comedian. She is shown here completing a Tik Tok challenge. Thirty one-year-old Stamford resident Samantha Ramsdell went viral on Tik Tok for her large mouth, leading her to earn the title Guinness Work Record Book title for largest mouth gape.
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