That happened to Thomas Wedders, who holds the Guinness record (which has not been surpassed in 300 years) for having the longest nose in the world. Having lived in the 18th century, he had no option to improve his appearance, but then he decided to take advantage of this feature, and He became a circus performer.
According to documents and publications of the time, the man was able to travel throughout Yorkshire, in England, thanks to this peculiarity. He showed off his huge nose in a street circus show.
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The tragic story of the man with the biggest nose in the world
Although there are not many records of his life, in the Guinness Book of Records they detailed: “There are historical accounts that Thomas Wedders, who lived in England during the 1770s and was a member of a traveling circus, had a nose that It measured 19 centimeters (7.5 inches long).”
Currently, The man alive with the longest nose in the world is the Turk Mehmet Ozyurek. Despite having a huge nose, It is not even half that of Wedders: It measures almost 9 centimeters.
Other information is provided The Strand MagazineVol. XI, published in 1896: “This prodigious nose of yours it was a compound of the greedy with the martial. But either his chin was too weak, or his forehead too low, or nature had exhausted herself so much in the task of giving this prodigy a nose that he completely forgot to give it a brain; or perhaps, the nose displaced this last product,” they describe.
Obviously at that time there were no photographs but there are drawings that give an idea of the proportions of his nasal appendage in relation to his face. Also in the Ripley’s Believe it of Not museum, in England, There is a wax figure of his face, demonstrating what the largest nose in the world must have been like.
The truth is that between the intellectual disability attributed to him and the possibility of make money off your nose, apparently Thomas Wedders He did not suffer or feel ashamed of his appearance, If not the opposite. Wedders died at age 50, when he still belonged to the traveling circus.