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A 10-year-old girl who was teased for her size 10.5 feet is now a mini celeb after snagging a kid's world record

A 10-year-old girl who was teased for her size 10.5 feet is now a mini celeb after snagging a kid's world record
  • A fourth-grade girl with large feet combated teasing by winning herself a kid's world record.

  • Ruby Labuschewsky told Insider she jumped for joy when she found out her submission was approved.

  • The 10-year-old has already resubmitted for another record.

Big feet have always run in the Labuschewsky family — but only one member of the prominent-pedaled clan holds a world record for their titanic trotters.

Ruby Labuschewsky, now 10, is the family pride and joy, a newfound recipient of a kids world record for largest feet in her age category. 

"When I found out, I was extremely excited," Ruby, of Jonesville, Michigan, told Insider. "I was jumping up and down going a little bit crazy."

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Ruby's then-size 10.5 feet helped her secure the title in the 7 to 9 age category for big kid feet; no other girls her age had submitted their feet for consideration, so Ruby essentially helped set the new record, her mom, Hanna Labuschewsky said.

Children as young as 4 and as old as 16 are able to submit themselves in a variety of categories for titles with Kids World Records, an online organization that encourages kids around the globe to dream big, according to the group's website.

Kids World Records differs from its more famous counterpart, Guinness World Records, in that it's solely focused on awarding juveniles, though there have been several young winners in the big leagues.

Kid's record attempts must be measurable by an adult witness, adequately challenging, and safe, ethical, moral, and legal, the website says. Especially ambitious kids like Ruby can even create their own categories or competitions with the organization.

The application for Ruby's win was intense, according to Hanna, who said the mother-daughter duo had to snap multiple photos of several angles of the young girl's feet next to a tape measure and record the precise measurements as part of the submission process.

Then, they had to wait.

"We probably checked it every day," Hanna said of the online approval portal.