Abby Hensel, Brittany Hensel and Joshua Bowling.
By @abbyandbrittanyhensel/TikTokconjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel Looking back on their whirlwind 2024.
On Monday, December 30, the sisters released a “2024 Replay” video via TikTok, looking back at some of the biggest moments from the past year, including Abby’s wedding to her husband Joshua Bowling.
The two tied the knot in November 2021, but the milestone wasn’t made public until March, when footage of Abby and Joshua’s first dance went viral. (today The first person to break the news got their wedding records.
Other photos in the 2024 look back include Abby and Brittany, 34, eating ice cream with Pauline and their daughter Isabella. The sisters also shared a selfie with a bowling ball, which was originally posted in October.
Abby and Brittany rose to fame in the late 1990s by appearing on various daytime television shows. They then told their story in the 2006 documentary Jfight for lifeairing on TLC. The siblings are conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twins with two heads placed side by side on a single torso. They share the same blood and all organs from the waist down, with Abby controlling the right limb and Brittany the left. (The girl’s parents, microphone and Patty Henseldecided not to separate them after the birth in 1990 because both were unlikely to survive the surgery.
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When Abby and Brittany turned 16, the moment was shown in their second documentary released in 2008, including how they learned to drive. Abby and Brittany. After one season, the series ended, with the twins living a relatively low-key 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 remain unfazed.
In a TikTok video shared through the twins’ profiles in March, a deep voice can be heard saying: “This is a message to all the haters out here.” “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 series of images that included multiple statues of conjoined twins.
“The internet is super noisy today,” the pair wrote in their post. “We’re always here.”
