TWINS HIT BACK
Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel hit out at fake ‘pregnancy’ claims after marriage as they post cryptic video
Their post made some fans think they were actually expecting
CONJOINED twins Abby and Brittany Hensel have left fans confused after using a cryptic TikTok video to hit out at viral pregnancy rumours.
The twins, 34, shared a video announcing their supposed pregnancy on their TikTok account leading some fans to believe they were expecting.
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The 30-second clip, shared with their 303,000 followers, featured the made-up headline "Married and baby on the way".
Rushing to congratulate the pair, one person said: "Congratulations on the upcoming baby announcement!!!"
Another user commented: "Congratulations!"
Someone else wrote: "Congratulations on being pregnant. You will make great moms."
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Abby and Brittany, who were born with a rare condition called dicephalic parapagus, made headlines in 2021 when they announced one of them, Abby, was marrying US Army veteran Josh Bowling.
The video was shared on November 18, with the twins yet to respond or be spotted since.
Just days before their rumoured pregnancy announcement, the twins had shared sweet snaps of life with Abby's husband Josh.
They also took to TikTok to urge their followers to go vote.
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In their caption, the pair wrote: "Don't forget to #vote!"
WEDDING BLISS
Abby and Brittany were forced to hit back at trolls who mocked them for Abby's wedding in 2021.
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The reality TV stars sent out a message to haters after recently releasing more footage from Abby’s big day.
Captioned "We know you think you know us", the twins also used Justine Skye’s 2014 song Collide in the background, with the lyrics: “I know you think that you know me, but you ain’t even seen my dark side.
"It’s reserved for you only so baby do me right, do me right.”
Pictures released by Abby show her and Brittany in a white wedding dress alongside 33-year-old Josh in a grey suit.
In the TikTok post, which was viewed by millions, the couple gushed that they were “happy” and in “love”.
They also shared lots of pictures from their happy day, including showing them during their first dance and posing with a little bridesmaid.
Who are the Hensel twins?
The pair defied doctors when they survived by being born with rare condition dicephalic parapagus on March 7, 1990, at a hospital in the rural Minnesotan town of New Germany in the US.
Each has their own heart, stomach and pair of lungs, but they share a single body from the waist down.
Abby controls their right arm and leg, while Brittany controls the left side.
Parents Patty, a nurse, and Mike, a carpenter, were not even aware they were having twins, let alone conjoined ones, until Patty gave birth.
Patty later said: “From the first time we saw them, we thought they were beautiful.”
The couple opted to limit their exposure to the media to give the girls a chance at a normal life.
To separate the babies would have basically meant cutting them right down the middle.
The twins first burst into the public eye when they were aged six as they appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996.
On the show they explained how they operate the world together despite being permanently attached.
In their early teens, Abby and Brittany became the focus of a hit 2003 documentary named Joined For Life.
But with their young lives being on show the pair quickly encountered dreadful and nasty online trolls who taunted and teased them over their appearance and disability.
This caused the Hensel twins to keep their adult lives quiet including Abby's marriage.
After going through college the pair became fifth grade math teachers at a school in New Brighton, Minnesota.
In a documentary about their lives, the pair said: “People have been curious about us since we were born, for obvious reasons.
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“But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. We were raised to believe we could do anything we wanted to do.
“The most amazing thing about us is we are like everyone else.”
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