Abby Hensel, Brittany Hensel and Joshua Bowling.
Courtesy of @abbyandbrittanyhensel/TikTokSiamese twins Abby and Brittany Hensel look back on their tumultuous 2024
The sisters posted a “2024 Replay” video via TikTok on Monday, December 30 to reflect on some of the highlights of the past year, including Abby’s wedding to husband Joshua Bowling.
The duo tied the knot in November 2021, but the milestone wasn’t announced until March when a video surfaced of Abby and Joshua the first dance went viral. (Today was the first to break the news, receiving the tapes of their wedding.)
Other images in the 2024 roundup. include Abby and Brittany, both 34, eating ice cream with Bowling and his daughter Isabella. The sisters also shared a selfie with Bowling that was originally published in October.
Abby and Brittany rose to fame in the late 1990s after appearing on various daytime television shows. They then told their story in the 2006 documentary. Jmarked for lifeemitted by TLC. The siblings are dicephalic conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso. They share a blood stream and all organs below the waist, with Abby controlling their right limbs and Brittany controlling their left. (The girls’ parents, Mike and Patty Henseldecided not to separate them after the birth in 1990, as it was unlikely the duo would survive the procedure.)
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When they turned 16, Abby and Brittany chronicled the moment — including how they learned to drive — in a second documentary released in 2008. Until 2012 they’re back with the TLC documentaries Abby and Brittany. After one season, the series ended and the twins lived a relatively modest life out of the public eye. Abby and Brittany are both fifth grade teachers in Brighton, Minnesota.
The sisters have faced widespread criticism over the years, with some trolls questioning their lifestyle, but Abby and Brittany have remained undisturbed.
“This is a message to all the haters out here,” a deep voice could be heard in a March TikTok video shared via the twins’ account. “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 featuring multiple statues of conjoined twins.
“The internet is very NOISY today,” the duo captioned their post. “We’ve always been around.”
