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Abby Hensel, Brittany Hensel and Joshua Bowling.
Courtesy of @abbyandbrittanyhensel/TikTokConjoined twins Abby a Brittany Hensel looking back at their 2024 hurricane.
The sisters posted a “2024 Replay” video via TikTok on Monday, December 30, to reflect on some big moments from the past year, including Abby’s wedding to her husband Joshua Bowling.
The duo married in November 2021, but the milestone wasn’t announced until March when a video of Abby and Joshua’s the first dance went viral. (Today was the first to break the news, obtaining their marriage records.)
Other images in the 2024 review included Abby and Brittany, both 34, eating ice cream with Bowling and his daughter, Isabella. The sisters also shared a selfie with Bowling, viz originally posted in October.
Abby and Brittany rose to fame in the late 1990s after appearing on various daytime television shows. They then told their story in the 2006 documentary Joined for Lifewhich aired on TLC. The siblings are decephalic conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso. They share the same blood flow and all the organs below the waist with Abby controlling their right arms and legs and Brittany controlling the left. (The girls’ parents, Mike a Patty Henseldecided not to separate them after birth in 1990 as it was unlikely the duo would survive the procedure.)
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When they turned 16, Abby and Brittany chronicled the moment—including how they learned to drive—in a second documentary, released in 2008. By 2012, they returned with the TLC docuseries Abby & Brittany. After one season, the series ended, and the twins lived a relatively low-key life out of the public eye. Abby and Brittany are both fifth grade teachers in Brighton, Minnesota.
The sisters have faced widespread criticism over the years, with some trolls questioning their lifestyle, but Abby and Brittany has remained untroubled.
“This is a message to all the haters out there,” a deep voice could be heard saying in a March TikTok video shared via the twins’ profile. “If you don’t like what I do but watch everything I do, you’re still a fan.”
In a separate clip that month, they shared a collection of images that included a number of combined twin statues.
“The internet is very noisy today,” the duo said on their post. “We’ve always been around.”
