In pictures: Ethiopian twenty largest mouth in the world
Some girls in Ethiopia may have to spend whole years trying to enlarge their mouths!
They may have to give up their teeth to do it! An Ethiopian young woman has registered her name as the largest mouth in the world, having expanded it with the aid of a tablet placed between her lips with a diameter of 19.5 cm, or 4 cm larger than the previous record holder.
The 20-year-old new carrier, Ataye Eligidagne, insists that the expansion of her mouth and the placing of the disc between her lips does not cause any pain.
Ataye Eligdegane managed to achieve this goal with the help of doctors who supervised her, so that she could put the traditional Ethiopian decorations in her mouth, and even sacrificed some of her front teeth for that. Australian journalists also filmed a documentary film about the young woman and the tribe she lived in.
Journalists confirm that all the young women living in this region of Ethiopia make the move a year before the marriage, in order to attract the attention of young people who are eager to be associated with a wider mouth, as this reflects the social situation of the girl, the larger the disk the more it is a guide On a wealthy family.
I wonder how this tradition started