Here’s an unusual, exciting, confusing, and romantic story… all wrapped into one:
Abby Hensel is a married woman!
Okay, granted. This may require a bit of explanation as to why we describe development using the adjectives above…
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Abby and Brittany Hensel are Siamese twins.
They achieved some level of prominence in 1996 when they were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In 2012, the siblings starred in the TLC reality show Abby & Brittany, giving viewers at the time a closer look into their lives and their extremely rare condition.
The sisters, who are dicephalic Siamese twins, were born fused at the torso – and remain that way as adults.
They have separate spinal cord, brain, heart and other organs, but share those located below the waist. Brittany controls the left side of her body, while Abby controls the right.
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Truly surprising, right?
Meanwhile, on March 27, The Today Show cited public records to prove that Abby has been married since 2021 to a man named Josh Bowling.
The spouses (and, yes, Brittany) reside in Minnesota, the twins’ homeland; while Josh describes himself as a “father, veteran, nurse” on his Facebook page.
After graduating from Bethel University in 2012, the sisters began working as teachers at an elementary school.
Both Abby and Brittany obtained their own teaching license, although they explained that they said years ago that they split the paycheck for teaching the same classes because, again, they can’t be physically separated.
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“People have been curious about us since we were born, for obvious reasons,” the twins said in the first episode of the eight-part series.
“But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. We were raised to believe we could do anything we wanted.”
This includes dating and, more recently, marriage, although the former reality TV stars have said they do not want to turn their private lives into a public spectacle.
“The whole world doesn’t need to know who we’re dating,” Brittany said in the 2006 documentary Joined for Life: Abby & Brittany Turn 16. “Or what we’re going to do and all that.”
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In the past, the twins have also talked openly about parenthood.
“Yes, we will be mothers,” Brittany said in the aforementioned documentary.
“We haven’t thought about how being a mother will work yet.”