Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in the TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany,” have a new member of the family.
Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel first gained national attention when they appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1996.
Now the sisters have reached a major life milestone: Abby is married.
The Hensels later starred in the feel-good TLC reality series “Abby and Brittany,” which showed them driving, traveling to Europe and even riding a moped. When the show ended after one season, Abby and Brittany had just graduated from college with degrees in education.
A lot has happened in the last decade. Abby, 34, is now married. According to public records, Abby, a teacher, and Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran, tied the knot in 2021. The sisters also shared photos of the wedding on social media. The couple live in Minnesota, where the Hensels were born and raised.
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I have questions that I should probably keep to myself…
Yeah, we’re curious, but polite.
I don’t give a shit.
I wanna know how they all fuck.
Faces down, ass up
Which one can see when you will die and which sees how you will die?
Wikipedia says one set of reproductive organs, and apparently they’re fully functional.
So 2 orgasms for the price of 1?
Do they both feel it at the same time??
Basically a threesome every night 🤣
All joke aside these girls are bad ass I could not imagine being in their situation. I remember them dating different people for a while which would have been interesting for everyone…. Glad they figured it out with a life partner
I’m really curious about some details. They both meet this guy. He seems interested. Does he just keep talking to one face and ignoring the other? Were he and Abby kissing, and Brittany’s all “Ew, Abby, he’s gross”. When he proposed, was he like “Will you marry me?” And they both say “yes”, and he’s like “Uh, I just meant the left side”? How do you not end up dating and marrying them both?! Maybe they are in reality, but they can’t say that due to polygamy laws?
That’s my suspicion. They obviously can’t legally have a plural marriage. But then again they could have such a ceremony but only one of the girls’ names on the paperwork.
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Ah, but the right head controls the left side of the body and vice versa.
It would have to be “Love me, love my sister”, or it would never work.
“Hi everyone and thanks again for coming to the wedding. Firstly, I would like to introduce for the first time my better half Abby”. The reception room falls awkwardly silent for a moment until punctuated by the laughter of a very tipsy uncle Ron from right at the back.
Sorry all …
Better third?
They’ve had really interesting lives, especially in the way they have fiercely asserted their independence. I highly recommend reading more about them.
So, like, realistically, he’s marrying both of them, right? I get that they can’t do that legally, but… You can’t exactly not, right?
They have found all sorts of coping strategies throughout their lives to assert their individuality, so Brittany would probably say no, she was not married to him and Abby would agree, because he married Abby and they are two different people.
Yeah but then believing that isn’t the only factor here. He’s gonna be in a marriage with both these women, practically speaking.
I think Brittany is fine with that or it wouldn’t have happened. It happened several years ago too. The news has just come out about it because they try to avoid public life since it means people look at them like they’re freaks.
Brittney is the third wheel. This can’t end well.
It’s gonna be a very messy breakup.
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This should be the only post on best-of-lemmy
People are getting so hung up on the sex angle, but the ramifications are more interesting. What if one of them wants to get pregnant but the other doesn’t? One consents to go through labor and delivery but the other doesn’t?
This is all incredibly complex, but you know if Chang and Eng could make it work…
https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/bunker-twins
"They lived together in one house for nine years, but their wives began to quarrel. Starting in 1852, Sarah and Adelaide lived in separate houses. Chang and Eng agreed to reside in one house for three days, in which that brother made all the decisions without question. They spent the next three days at the other twin’s house, where he made all the decisions. The Bunkers faithfully held to this arrangement the rest of their lives.
The twins returned to touring between 1849 and 1870 to support their large families. Chang and Adelaide had ten children, and Eng and Sarah had eleven children."
That article is a ride. All sweet stuff until
The twins prospered and moved to Surry County, where they came to own more than one thousand acres of land and twenty-eight enslaved people.
Wild
I know, right? Conjoined twins in then Siam (Thailand), essentially sold into slavery, smuggled out of the country, then established as slave owners themselves… and having 21 children between them…
There’s a movie to be made there.
Chango Unchained
Everything I’ve read or seen about them shows that they unsurprisingly have a lot of ways of coping with each other when they disagree, even when it is a major disagreement. What’s interesting is that they use “I” as a single entity when they agree and consider each other separate entities when they don’t.
I don’t know what both think about pregnancy, but they’re school teachers, so they definitely like kids. I wonder if pregnancy is even a possibility? Or maybe unwise if their condition is genetic.
Do you think they can both give him a BJ at the same time? Or maybe one tosses the salad while the other gobbles the knob?
upvoted for having the balls to ask the important questions.
Down voted for openly sexualizing people without their consent.
Given their mouths are in parallel and not series, it’s a topological impossibility.
Now some kind of xenomorph, with two mouths in series, maybe.
One in 200,000 births results in conjoined twins? That seems way higher than I thought.
I’d imagine most are a lot more minor than this. Baby is born with a small growth that turns out to be a malformed limb of an incomplete/reabsorbed twin, doctors remove it quickly after birth, and the baby goes on to live a normal life.
I’ve heard of there being chimera people as well who go through most of their life assuming they’re perfectly normal until they learn that their DNA in one part of their body doesn’t match their DNA in another part of their body.
A lot of them die in infancy, so you don’t see them around.
Literally got two heads. Wild.
I think a better way of describing it is that the two heads have one body since they don’t share a brain, making them two people.
Yes, of course it is. But the reason they get media attention? It’s a person with two heads, holy shit.
That’s one of the reasons they’ve tried to avoid media attention.
They reluctantly did 8 episodes of a TLC show right after college- probably necessary to help pay for it.
They’ve done a documentary when they were teenagers, a handful of other interviews and that’s it.
This is from an article about the documentary:
But as the film progresses, you see that any time the twins leave their Minnesota town, people blatantly photograph them, leaving the girls feeling “violated,” according to their mother, Patty. She gets teary in the documentary when she explains how she doesn’t want her girls to grow up like circus performers, and she hasn’t let the girls speak to the media since the movie debuted two years ago. Watch the movie now—it’s still in heavy rotation on the Discovery Health network—and you can see why they’d shun the spotlight. It’s hard to shake the creepy, voyeuristic feeling you get when you watch the girls make pottery or brush each other’s hair. The narrator explains that they are, “in nearly every sense, perfectly normal teenagers.” But we know we’re watching precisely because they’re not.
And I admit, I watched and read about them because they are so unusual, but I also don’t think that gives a reason to deny their individuality.
So the person is the brain?
What else would it be? If your brain was put in a vat but you are still alive, wouldn’t you still consider yourself a person? I know I would.
What makes Abby and Brittany a single person rather than two individuals who happen to share body parts?
What else would it be?
Rest of the body too.
If your brain was put in a vat but you were still alive
Is a situation that has never existed, we have no idea whether it could exist, and it presupposes the premise while supporting that premise as a conclusion. If “you” are still alive, then the question is already answered.
What makes Abby and Brittany a single person rather than two individuals who happen to share body parts?
Didn’t say they were
I know it’s not the point, it’s just weird that the article called them a “couple.”
Yea, they really are a throuple.
I do wonder how insurance works for them too, are they treated like two individuals or do they get the benefit of having a single body and are treated as an individual?
Not related to the marriage. They work as a 5th grade teacher, do they each get paid or is it one salary?
This is the kind of story that makes red pill people wave their arms
Well, they will always have someone who can weigh in as a final decision when they both disagree on something. Sadly, I think it will be a bit one-sided.
I wonder how birth is going to work. Both of them gonna scream during labour? Both of them are basically the same person genetically so the child has two moms genetically speaking? i guess not different from any child born to identical twin mom.
And here I am, still single.
I’m in my early 40s, retired, and never even been engaged. I kinda like it tho. It’s pretty chill 🙂
Have you even tried having a conjoined twin? Are you even trying bro
