Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel share the 2024 recap video
Siamese twins Abbey And Brittany Hensel look back on their whirlwind 2024.
The sisters posted a “2024 Replay” video via TikTok on Monday, December 30, to look back on some key moments from the past year, including Abby’s wedding to her husband. Joshua Bowling.
The duo tied the knot 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 and obtain records of their marriage.)
Other images in the 2024 recap 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 several daytime TV shows. They then told their story in the documentary Jcalled to lifeaired on TLC. The siblings are dicephalic conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso. They share the same bloodstream and all organs below the waist, with Abby having control of their right limbs and Brittany the left. (The girls’ parents, Mike And Patty Henselshe decided not to divorce after the birth in 1990, because it was unlikely that the duo would survive the procedure.)
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When they turned 16, Abby and Brittany showed this moment — including how they learned to drive — in a second documentary, released in 2008. They returned in 2012 with the TLC docuseries Abby and Brittany. After one season, the series came to an end and the twins lived a relatively quiet life out of the public eye. Both Abby and Brittany are fifth grade teachers in Brighton, Minnesota.
The sisters have received a lot of criticism over the years, with some trolls questioning their lifestyle, but Abby and Brittany have not suffered any of it.
“This is a message to all the haters out here,” a deep voice sounded 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 featuring multiple conjoined twin images.
“The internet is extra LOUD today,” the duo captioned their post. “We have always been there.”