--- title: This Girl's Tongue Is So Long She Can Lick Her Eye description: At 4 in. long, Adrianne Lewis may just have the longest tongue in the world canonical: https://time.com/3856806/adrianne-lewis-long-tongue-guinness-world-record-viral/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-13T04:48:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:36.876Z og:title: This Girl's Tongue Is So Long She Can Lick Her Eye og:description: Adrianne Lewis is hoping to get into the record books. og:url: https://time.com/3856806/adrianne-lewis-long-tongue-guinness-world-record-viral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Girl's Tongue Is So Long She Can Lick Her Eye twitter:description: Adrianne Lewis is hoping to get into the record books. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Girl's Tongue Is So Long She Can Lick Her Eye > Sponsored content. 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The 18-year-old from Michigan has made a name for herself on social media for having a tongue that Kiss rocker Gene Simmons would be proud of. > [](https://twitter.com/LongTongueLewis/status/368359437641060353) Although she has not been officially judged, Lewis believes she has what it takes to break the Guinness World Record. The title currently belongs to Nick Stoeberi, whose tongue measures in at 3.97 in., reports Barcroft TV. Lewis created a YouTube [channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/adelew10) two years ago and since then her long licker has gone viral with thousands of people tuning in to watch her roll and twist her extraordinarily long tongue. She can lick her nose, chin, elbow and even her eye. “I feel as though I may have inherited it,” she told Barcroft TV. “But I think with time and me being the weird kid that I was and always sticking out my tongue, it could have stretched.” \[[_Barcroft TV_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipVgIIWGCak#t=33)\] ### See the Human Body Under a Microscope  Adrenaline crystals (polarized light micrographs) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Balancing stone from inner ear (colored scanning electron micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Blood clot (colored scanning electron micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Breast cancer (light micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Insulin crystals (polarized light micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Melatonin crystals (polarized light micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Penicillium fungus (colored scanning electron micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Serotonin crystals (polarized light micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Vaginal cancer cells (colored scanning electron micrograph) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited  Ventolin crystals (colred scanning electron micrographs) Reprinted with permission from Science is Beautiful © 2014 by Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Limited ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3856806/adrianne-lewis-long-tongue-guinness-world-record-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3856806/adrianne-lewis-long-tongue-guinness-world-record-viral/"},"headline":"This Girl's Tongue Is So Long She Can Lick Her Eye","datePublished":"2015-05-13T04:48:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:36.876Z","description":"Lewis is hoping her tongue can break records","url":"https://time.com/3856806/adrianne-lewis-long-tongue-guinness-world-record-viral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","guinness world records"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3856806/adrianne-lewis-long-tongue-guinness-world-record-viral/","name":"This Girl's Tongue Is So Long She Can Lick Her Eye"}}]}] ```