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They make sure that they scold the right girl if they ever commit some mistake. That's what we have encouraged them to do, to develop their own individuality as much as possible.� T hey buy two separate cinema tickets, separate meals and two different birthday cakes for them. Patty said �when children ask the girls if they have two heads, they say they don't but that each has their own head. They always treated them as two different individuals and taught the same to them. They just could not bear the fact that one of them might die or get physically handicapped for the rest of her life. The parents never thought of getting their twins separated. Their dresses are made on special order with two different necklines, leggings with different color for each leg and different shoe for each foot to reflect their unique taste. Although the two girls have different liking's and different urge to sleep and eat, they still coordinate among themselves to work as a single body. However, their mother wondered who would get a driving ticket if they ever get caught up for speeding up.īoth Mike and Patty have encouraged the girls to develop their own individuality They have kept the twins and their other two children away from media. They drive easily with each twin controlling the steering wheel with one arm. They also passed their driving test on their 16th birthday. On their 16th birthday, the girls were shot for a documentary for TLC. After that, they started leading a normal, private life with their family until their 16th birthday. At the age of six, they appeared in Oprah Winfrey show and on the cover of Life magazine. The twins attended a private church school. Despite of being operated several times, the twins have remained in good health. They were born with three arms, one arm was removed surgically at the time of birth.
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Still the twins work in a coordinated fashion while typing e-mails, playing piano, or playing their favorite sports like bowling, volleyball, cycling, softball, swimming, etc. Abigail, the right twin can�t feel anything on the left side of body while Brittany, the left twin can�t feel anything on her right side. From their waist down, all organs are shared including the reproductive system, intestines and bladder. They have two hearts, two spines joined at the pelvis, four lungs, two oesophagi, three kidneys, one ribcage, one liver, a partially shared nervous system and a shared circulatory system. The Hensel twins are a result of a fertilized egg that failed to separate inside the womb. But Abby and Brittany proved the doctors� speculations wrong. The doctors warned the parents Patty who is a registered nurse and Mike, a carpenter and landscaper that their daughters would not survive long.
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According to the statistics, one set of twins in every 40,000 is born connected to the other sibling and only 1 percent of such twins survive beyond one year. Their parents consider them as the most special children in the world since these twins are one of the rarest set of dicephalus twins to survive infancy. Image Source: Ībby and Brittany were born on Main Minnesota, US. The show will depict the lives of the Hensel twins. The gorgeous young ladies who share one body will feature in the show called �Abby and Brittany�.
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But proving their fate wrong, the twins have completed 23 years of their lives. Now, the tides have changed in their favor.Īfter birth of the twins, the doctors said that they could not survive long. The Minnesota conjoined twins- Abigail and Brittany Hensel, have struggled long and hard throughout their lives.