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Woman With An “Enormous” Mouth Is Going Viral For What She Puts Inside It
Samantha Ramsdell, 30, lives in Stamford, Connecticut. The young woman quickly became a viral sensation during coron- avirus lockdown because she was able to put her most unique body part to good use on the Chinese- created social media app, TikTok. During an interview with This Morning’s hosts, Philip Schofield and Davina McCall, Ramsdell showed off her mouth, which has been called one of the “world’s biggest mouths,” and talked about how she is able to make more than ten thousand dol- lars from one TikTok video.
Throughout her life, Ramsdell was bullied for having a big mouth. Now, however, she is laughing all the way to the bank because she is earning a killing
uploading videos to TikTok.
“I turned it into my biggest asset,” she said. “It’s crazy. I never thought I would get the reactions that I do now.”
Samantha’s mouth measures out at 9.25 cm wide. This is short of the official world record, which is held by Francisco Domingo Joaquim of Angola, who is capable of stretching his lips out over 17 cm or
about 6.5 inches wide.
Although Ramsdell always hoped to use her mouth in the the- ater, comedy, or on Broadway, her hopes were dashed as COVID-19 over- took the United States and sent states into lock- down. She turned to TikTok to give it a shot, but people only wanted to see her for her large mouth.
“It came from a lot of my comedy
videos. When I made funny expressions, peo- ple were like, ‘What is up with your mouth?’ I started making funny responses to them.”
Because she started earning money from peo- ple obsessed with the size of her mouth, Ramsdell began recording episodes about her “genetic con- dition” called BAM – which said stands for “Big A** Mouth.”
While appearing on This Morning, the hosts turned her large mouth into a game. They put big things through the gap- ing hole, which they mimicked on set with a card- board cutout of Ramsdell.
“Look at the girth!” Davina said as he struggled to hold back his laughter.
On TikTok, Samantha finds herself being inundated with requests from strangers begging her to eat things on camera.
“You have carved yourself out a career here that actually pays you to post on TikTok,” Davina pointed out.
“Some of the top TikTok raters do that as their full- time job,” Samantha said. “They pay just for people watching – you get three
cents for a thou- sand views.”
Philip said: “To the bullies, to the people at school that gave you a hard time... she can get 11 grand a video, so up yours!”
Viewers are amazed by Ramsdell and her large mouth.
“You gotta admit that the lady with the giant mouth is one of the coolest guests that #ThisMorning has ever had, right?”
“I’m watching a woman shove a whole apple in her mouth. Working from home 2.0 has peaked,” another tweeted.
One person joked: “Sod what she put in her mouth, what’s that she’s got on her lips? Shoving those two dough- nuts in her mouth, That lipstick didn’t even smear!”
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