Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel first gained national attention in 1996 when they appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In the 2003 documentary “Joint for Life,” Patty Hensel said her daughters were eager to have children one day.
Abby Hensel, now 34, is from Minnesota. Married nurse and Army veteran Josh Bowling, 33, in 2021According to public records obtained by the newspaper Today.
When Abby and Brittany were born in 1990, their parents, Patty and Mike Hensel, decided not to have a separation surgery because they considered it too risky. At the time, the doctors said that the chances of both surviving the surgery were slim.
In a documentary filmed when the girls were teenagers, their mother said they were interested in having children of their own one day, “and it's probably something that could work because those organs work for them.”
In another interview, Brittany reiterated her desire to have a family of her own: 'We don't need the whole world to know who we're seeing, what we're doing and when we're going to do it. But believe me, we are completely different.
Abby's relationship with father-of-one Josh has flown under the radar until now, as the twins have lived a quiet life in the spotlight for the past 10 years.
They have always shut down speculation about their personal lives and dismissed rumors that Brittany got engaged a decade ago as “a funny joke”. But even when they were teenagers they talked about wanting to have children.
“People have been curious about us since we were born, for obvious reasons,” the twins said in the first episode of their eight-part series, according to ABC News. But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. “We were raised to believe that we could do whatever we wanted.”
A clip showing Abby's wedding day was recently posted on the twins' TikTok account, and A Facebook account titled Brit and Abby also featured a photo of the happy couple.
Only one pair of twins in every 40,000 are linked in some way. Only 1 percent of them survive beyond the first year.