Newly Dreads: Woman With World’s Longest Dreadlocks Weds Her Hairstylist

Real-life ‘Rasta-Rapunzel’, Asha Mandela, has locks that measure a lengthy 55ft - longer than a London bus. Now the 50-year-old, from Florida, has found a match made in heaven with new husband, Emmanuel Chege, a qualified hair stylist from Kenya. The smitten couple mutually worship each other’s bountiful barnets and say that their beautifully maintained dreadlocks are their crowning glory.Asha said: “It’s really added spice in the bedroom and it does not get in the way of anything at all “There are times when my hair will be on the bed with us and we can use it for whatever or we put it on the floor if we want it out of the way.” Asha and Emmanuel met online three years ago after he was struck by pictures of her famous dreadlocks on hair websites. He decided to contact Asha, and when she visited Kenya on business eight months later, the chemistry between them was undeniable.And after adoring Asha’s locks from a far, Emmanuel was eager to get his hands on her famous tresses. He said: “It was so amazing to see all this amount of hair. It was more than in my imagination.At first I thought maybe her locks were almost to her knees or to the ground, but the first glance when I saw her hair, it was so long, so it was so amazing and her beauty was so amazing too.” A whirlwind romance followed, and within eight months of meeting, Asha and Emmanuel were married in America.