{"id":4497,"date":"2026-05-13T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/hair-raising-circus-star-lifts-12-stone-weight-using-just-her-braids\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:25:54","slug":"hair-raising-circus-star-lifts-12-stone-weight-using-just-her-braids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/hair-raising-circus-star-lifts-12-stone-weight-using-just-her-braids\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair-raising: Circus star lifts 12-stone weight using just her braids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-05-13 13:25:53<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A circus star has stunned crowds after lifting the weight of a full\u2011grown adult using nothing more than her braids.<BR><br \/>\nDiana Elizabeth Batres Hermosillo, from from San Luis Potos\u00ed, Mexico, who has spent 26 years performing jaw\u2011dropping physical stunts, took on her wildest challenge yet at the Le Paz Theatre.<BR><br \/>\nIn front of a packed audience, the entertainer clipped six heavy plates to a chain attached to her tightly braided hair &#8211; then hauled an eye\u2011watering 166.11 lbs (75.35 kg) clean off the ground to claim the title for the heaviest weight lifted with hair by a female.<BR><br \/>\nHer feat toppled the previous record held by Indian athlete Asha Rani, who lifted 122.58 lbs (55.6 kg) back in 2014.<BR><br \/>\nDiana spent six months preparing her scalp, neck and back for the brutal strain, gradually adding more weight to a homemade contraption built from gym discs, a steel chain and a carabiner.<BR><br \/>\nOn the day, she braided her natural hair into two sections, tied them together, clipped in &#8211; and lifted the equivalent of a human being for a full 14 seconds as the crowd gasped and roared.<BR><br \/>\nAnd she wasn\u2019t done.<BR><br \/>\nAfter setting the record, Diana returned to the stage for another act, suspending her entire body weight from a hook using only the strength of her hair.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-05-13 13:25:53 A circus star has stunned crowds after lifting the weight of a full\u2011grown adult using nothing more than her braids. Diana Elizabeth Batres Hermosillo, from from San Luis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}