Conjoined twin who shares body with sister marries army veteran
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 infancy.
The pair share a single 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 documents 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.
The Hensels are dicephalus conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso.
What type of twins are the Hensels?
The Hensels are Dicephalic parapagus twins, which are most commonly born stillborn and do not survive past infancy.
However, Abby and Brittany defied all odds, and are only one of two known living adult conjoined twins.
The other pair of twins are Derman and Yigit Evrensel, from Turkey.
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 previously 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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