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Conjoined Twin Who Shares Body With Sister Marries Army Veteran
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By Sarah Hooper
Conjoined twin Abby Hensel tied the
knot with her partner Josh Bowling in a ceremony in Minnesota, it’s been revealed.
Sisters Brittany and Abby Hensel, 34, first rose to fame after becoming one of the first sets of conjoined
twins to survive infan- cy.
The pair share a sin- gle body, and from the waist down, they share all of their organs – including the intestine, bladder and reproductive organs.
Father of one Josh and Abby have kept their relationship quiet in recent years,
after the sisters ended their show on channel TLC.
But recent docu- ments have revealed that Abby and army veteran Josh got married in 2021, and a clip shared on TikTok revealed the wedding ceremony.
The pair were seen in a wedding dress, while Josh wore a
sharp grey suit and held their hands.
Both sisters are fifth grade teachers who still live in Minnesota, and love hiking, ice cream and Halloween.
News of the marriage raised questions over the role of Brittany.
The sisters have pre- viously revealed they always dreamt of marriage and starting their own families.
But intruding ques- tions have sometimes become too much.
Back in 2012, Brittany said the ‘whole world doesn’t need to know who we are seeing, what we are doing and when we are going to do it’.
She stressed that the sisters are ‘totally dif- ferent people’.
Abby said: ‘Yeah, we are going to be
mums one day, but we don’t want to talk about how it’s going to work yet’.
The Hensels are dicephalus conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso.
The Hensels’ parents were warned their daughters may not survive the night after they were born, but the twins have defied all odds.
They had their lives documented in a TLC reality series called Abby & Brittany, where they attended college and travelled to Europe.
Their father Mike pre- viously spoke about a future marriage of his daughters: ‘They’re good-looking girls. They’re witty. They’ve got everything going for them, except they’re together.’
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