The conjoined (连体的) twin Abby Hensel married her boyfriend Josh Bowling in 2021, who used to be a soldier. But the news has only just gone public after the sisters Abby and Brittany shared photos from the wedding on social media. The marriage was also confirmed by recent documents, which show the sisters and Bowling live in Minnesota, where the Hensels grew up.
In a 2003 interview, the twin sisters said they would like to become mothers one day, something their mother Patty Hensel said is possible. “Yeah, we’re going to be moms,” said Brittany. “We haven’t thought about how being moms is going to work yet. But we’re just 13 — we don’t need to think about that right now.” Now the twin sisters are having careers in teaching in their home state.
The sisters are dicephalus conjoined twins, which means they share all organs below the waist and share a bloodstream. They also independently control the arm and leg on the respective side of their body. After Abby and Brittany were born, their parents decided against separation surgery because it could leave one or both of them dead. “People have been curious about us since we were born, for obvious reasons,” the twins said. “But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. We were raised to believe we could do anything we wanted to do. ... The most amazing thing about us is we are like everyone else.”
The conjoined sisters came under the public spotlight after an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996 and went on to star in the reality series Abby and Brittany, which explored their day-to-day life. The Internet, as expected, had some questions for the newly-married couple. The Hensels took to TikTok to respond to the “haters”. They also shared a slideshow of conjoined twins represented in ancient sculptures with the caption (配文), “The Internet is extra LOUD today. We have always been around.”
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