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Gaining plenty of attention is Jyoti Amge
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the world's shortest woman
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Amge from Nagpur in India was all smiles as she was carried out onto the observatory at the highest public place in New York, the Empire State Building.
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Jyoti in front of you actually measures 2 feet and half an inch
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This is not the first record she has held she was the world's shortest teenager
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But there have been shorter women in history. Jyoti is just half an inch taller than Pauline Musters who previously held the record
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She says being a record-holder has had its benefits
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"I like it very much. Being in the Guinness Book of World Records I get to visit different places like London, Italy, New York and everywhere.
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Nineteen-year-old Jyoti was born with a dwarfism called achondroplasia and is not expected to grow anymore.
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She weighs just five kilograms and is smaller than a New York fire hydrant but her aspirations are much bigger.
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She wants to go into Bollywood movies but hasn't had too many offers, so she is heading to Hollywood.