Abby Hensel, Brittany Hensel and Joshua Bowling.
Courtesy of @abbyandbrittanyhensel/TikTokConjoined twins my dad and Brittany Hensel They look at the whirlwind of 2024.
The sisters posted a video titled “2024 Replay” via TikTok on Monday, December 30, to reflect on some key moments from the past year, including Abby's wedding to her husband. Joshua Boling.
The pair married in November 2021, but the milestone wasn't announced until March when a video of Abby and Joshua surfaced. The first dance went viral. (today He was the first to break the news, and obtained records of their wedding.)
Other photos in the 2024 roundup included Abbey and Brittany, both 34, eating ice cream with Bowling and his daughter, Isabella. The sisters also shared a selfie with Bowling, which was Originally published in October.
Abby and Brittany rose to fame in the late 1990s after appearing on several daytime television shows. They then told their story in the 2006 documentary JDesigned for lifewhich was broadcast on TLC. The siblings are dicephalic conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso. They share the same bloodstream and all organs below the waist, with Abby controlling their right limbs and Brittany controlling their left limbs. (The girls' parents Mike and Patty Hensel(He decided not to separate them after the birth in 1990 because it was unlikely the duo would survive the procedure.)
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When they turned 16, Abby and Brittany showcased that moment — including how they learned to drive — in a second documentary, released in 2008. By 2012, they were back with the TLC docuseries. Abby and Brittany. After one season, the series ended, and the twins lived a relatively quiet life away from the public eye. Both Abby and Brittany are fifth grade teachers in Brighton, Minnesota.
The sisters have faced widespread criticism over the years, with some trolls questioning their lifestyle, but Abbi and Brittany… She remained unfazed.
“This is a message to all the haters out here,” a deep voice can be heard saying in a March TikTok video shared via the twins' profile. “If you don't like what I do but you watch everything I do, you're still a fan.”
In a separate clip that same month, they shared a set of photos that included several conjoined twin figurines.
“The internet is so loud today,” the duo captioned their post. “We've always been around.”
