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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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[–] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 178 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I have questions that I should probably keep to myself…

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 88 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, we're curious, but polite.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 61 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't give a shit.

I wanna know how they all fuck.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They’re one downstairs, so they fuck as a couple. But the other twin also gets an orgasm.

[–] Biggles@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What if the other head is not in the mood?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 28 points 7 months ago

Then they wouldn't do it.

It's hard for us to imagine but they have to live in agreement of everything they do.

They have been doing it since birth so imagine they've worked out a lot of ground rules around this sort of thing.

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Which one can see when you will die and which sees how you will die?

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 40 points 7 months ago

The answer is: Yes, Josh can procreate with Brittany in plain Abby's sight, and Abby would never suspect infidelity.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia says one set of reproductive organs, and apparently they're fully functional.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

So 2 orgasms for the price of 1?

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

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

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[–] kn33@lemmy.world 87 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The sisters are both teaching fifth grade in Minnesota

My question is do they get paid double the salary of a single teacher or not?

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I kind of laughed when I read this - it would be really awkward if they weren't both teachers.

Abby: "Good morning class, today we're going around the room to talk about what we did over break."

Brittany: "Stupid little shits, I wanted to be a pilot! We could have taken turns sleeping and been a dynamic duo for international travel 😢 "

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

According to some articles I skimmed, no, since they're doing one job. They're pushing for more though.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

They probably get every benefit once and every bill twice.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Brittney is the third wheel. This can’t end well.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (8 children)

It's gonna be a very messy breakup.

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[–] Waldowal@lemmy.world 84 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean they don't have options for a legal poly marriage or some harem multi-wife practice, and they are registered as two persons in one body, I believe. In reality, yes, he can't marry just one. A weird situation law-wise.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was going to say "marry the one that has the worst health insurance" and then I realized I'm not as smart as I thought I was.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

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."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but they’re school teachers, so they definitely like kids

Oh, you sweet summer child.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The closest anyone says is that they share a single set of reproductive organs and are a single entity "below the waist".

Any obstetrician worth their degree would probably consider it a high risk pregnancy due to all the unknown factors. How would an epidural work, for example? No clue. Pregnancy is a stressful event under normal circumstances, no clue what would happen here.

In the Chang and Eng case, the twins were brothers who impregnated separate sisters, so the pregancies themselves were normal (despite being 21 or 22 of them).

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

They've had really interesting lives, especially in the way they have fiercely asserted their independence. I highly recommend reading more about them.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago

They are bad-ass.

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[–] zerog_bandit@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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?

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

upvoted for having the balls to ask the important questions.

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[–] Syd@lemm.ee 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

One in 200,000 births results in conjoined twins? That seems way higher than I thought.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes but this is muuuch rarer because its a very clean case of it. Most of them pass away in early childhood.

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[–] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“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 …

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's amazing and I'm thrilled to hear that Abby found love.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Wonder how Brittany feels about it.

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And here I am, still single.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm in my early 40s, retired, and never even been engaged. I kinda like it tho. It's pretty chill 🙂

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 21 points 7 months ago

Retired in early 40s? Get out.

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[–] Cheesus@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Not related to the marriage. They work as a 5th grade teacher, do they each get paid or is it one salary?

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Congratulations to them! I hope they find happiness

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