Abby Hensel, Brittany Hensel and Joshua Bowling.
Courtesy of @abbyandbrittanyhensel/TikTokConjoined twins Abby AND Brittany Hensel are looking back at their whirlwind 2024.
The sisters posted a “2024 Replay” video via TikTok on Monday, December 30, to reflect on some important moments from the past year, including Abby’s marriage to husband Joshua Bowling.
The pair married in November 2021, but the milestone wasn’t made public until March, when a video of Abby and Joshua’s first dance went viral. (today was the first to break the news, getting the details of their wedding.)
Other images in the 2024 compilation included Abby and Brittany, both 34, eating ice cream with Bowling and his daughter, Isabella. The sisters also shared a selfie with Bowling, which was originally posted in October.
Abby and Brittany rose to fame in the late 1990s after appearing on various daytime television shows. They later told their story in the 2006 documentary Janointed for Lifewhich aired on TLC. The siblings are conjoined dicephalic twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso. They share the same blood flow and all organs below the waist with Abby controlling their right limbs and Brittany controlling their left. (Girls’ parents, Mike AND Patty Henseldecided against separating them after the birth in 1990 as it was unlikely the pair would survive the procedure.)
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When they turned 16, Abby and Brittany recounted the moment — including how they learned to drive — in a second documentary, released in 2008. In 2012, they returned with the TLC docs Abby & Brittany. After one season, the series ended and the twins lived a relatively low-key life out of the public eye. Both Abby and Brittany are fifth grade teachers in Brighton, Minnesota.
The sisters have faced plenty of criticism over the years, with some trolls questioning their lifestyle, but Abby and Brittany remain undeterred.
“This is a message to all the haters out here,” a deep voice was heard saying in a March TikTok video shared via the twins’ profile. “If you don’t like what I do but watch everything I do, you’re still a fan.”
In a separate clip that same month, they shared a collection of images that included multiple statues of conjoined twins.
“The Internet is very noisy today,” the duo wrote in their post. “We’ve always been around.”
