New Germany (United States), March 28, 2024 – They had moved the world with their story, and now they are doing it again with a beautiful announcement: Abigail Hensel got married. Together with his sister Brittany she became famous in 1996, when in the broadcast of Oprah Winfrey they told their story life as Siamese twins. In 2012, the sisters were at the center of a documentary on the American network TLC, which followed them in their daily lives between college graduation, driving lessons and a trip to Europe. Their life has moved on since then, and they currently work as teachers in an elementary school in Minnesota.
Telling the story of ‘Abby’s wedding is Todaywho would organize them in utmost secrecy in 2021. It was he who asked for her hand Joshua Bowlinga nurse and ex military medalist. The man has a daughter from a previous relationship. The two girls and the groom have shared photos of the ceremony and the subsequent party on social media.
Abby and Brittany are split-sided conjoined twins, a very rare case whereas those born with this condition rarely survive to adulthood. The two sisters they share in fact the liver, the bladder, the rib cage and the reproductive system, having instead a spinal column and a heart each. In 1990, the year of their birth, their parents refused to proceed with a surgical operationas the possibility that they survived – especially together – were rather low. “How could we ever choose only one of the two?”, declared the father in an interview with Time in 2001.
In short, a beautiful life story, which we wonder about the continuation of. In the past, Abby and Brittany haven’t ruled out the possibility of become mothers one day: “This is something that could happen because their reproductive organs are functioning properly,” said the twins’ mother. They wouldn’t be the first conjoined twins to have a baby: Rosa Blažekborn in 1878 together with her sister Josepha, became a mother in 1909. An uphill road rather from a bureaucratic point of view – sharing the reproductive system, one wouldn’t know which of the two to record as a mother – but what would it be yet another happy ending for the Hensel twins.
