Conjoined twin Abby Hensel is now married - Abby, the left-side conjoined twin, married Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran, in 2021.

Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in a TLC reality series, have transitioned from a duo to a trio.

Abby, the left-side conjoined twin, married Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran, in 2021. They live in Minnesota, where the Hensel twins were born and raised.

Abby and Brittany, 34, have been living private lives since their 8-episode show “Abby & Brittany” aired in 2012. But it’s been a happy life for them in Minnesota, where they were born and raised.

According to the “Today” show, which obtained marriage records for the spouses, the sisters are both fifth-grade teachers in their home state.


Abby Hensel from TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany” married her husband Josh Bowling in 2021. Joshua Bowling / Facebook

Abby and Josh kept their marriage under wraps from the public eye until 2023, when they shared photos of the wedding ceremony on their TikTok, @abbyandbrittanyhensel. A wedding guest’s resurfaced clip revealed an intimate moment from the lovebird’s wedding on Facebook.

Spoiler: Video from TikTok

Spoiler: Video from Facebook

A 20-second clip posted on Heidi Bowling’s Facebook captures the couple dancing and kissing at the wedding reception. Abby and her sister wore an all-white, sleeveless bridal gown and laced-back dress, while Bowling wore a grey suit.

Bowling is seen staring into his blushing bride’s eyes while Brittany supports her sister.


The couple revealed photos of their wedding celebration in 2023. Heidi Bowling / Facebook

Bowling and his bride shared a special dance during their reception. Heidi Bowling / Facebook

Abby and Brittany Hensel, 34, were born as dicephalus conjoined twins. @abbyandbrittanyhensel/TikTok

The duo originally appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1996, explaining their lives as conjoined twins.

They were born as dicephalus conjoined twins, a rare condition when two heads are on a single body with one genital system; two, three or four arms, two hearts and two legs.

The Helsen twins share a bloodstream and all organs below the waist. Abby controls their right arm and leg and Brittany controls the left side.


Hensel’s parents refused separation surgery for the twins because it was too risky that one child wouldn’t survive. TLC

The twins first appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1996 sharing their rare story. TLC

When Abby and Brittany were born in 1990, their parents, Patty and Mike Hensel, opted out of separation surgery because doctors said there was a small chance the girls would survive the operation, “Today” reported.

“How could you pick between the two?” their father Mike said, during a 2001 interview with Time magazine.

Although they battle complications of life as conjoined twins, they haven’t let it slow them down from achieving benchmark goals such as passing their driver’s license test at 16, graduating from college, traveling to Europe and becoming educators.


The Hensel twins work as fifth-grade teachers in Minnesota. Joshua Bowling / Facebook

So far, there’s word if they plan on expanding their family.

In the 2003 documentary “Joined for Life,” Abby and Brittany discuss the possibility of raising children one day.

“Yeah, we’re going to be moms,” Brittany said. “We haven’t thought about how being moms is going to work yet. But we’re just 16 — we don’t need to think about that right now.”

And the couple doesn’t have to rush adding children into their life because Abby’s husband has a child from a prior relationship, according to the Daily Mail.

Bowling’s Facebook page reveals how the blended family embraces each other with family photoshoots, an ice cream outing and celebrating the holidays.

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[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Wonder what would happen if somehow a man wanted to marry the other twin?

That would basically be quasi-cuckoldry, no?

 

[GenociderSyo]

So here's something a bit more interesting they each control one arm and leg. So everything they do have to be coordinated. They also are kindergarten teachers. This is from the documentary showing what they share.


Did a write up on conjoined twins once that has more info on their type of twinning.

 

[ZeCommissar]

Morbid thought. What happens when one of them dies? Do they both pass away due to overlaps in the circulatory system or does the survivor just have to get an emergency surgery while in mourning?
Less-morbid thought. I bet they can rap really well, but I'm not sure how their ribs and lungs work. If separate, they could do some sweet harmonies.

Yes when a conjoined dies the other will follow suit shortly thereafter unless surgically removed. You know how if you have a gangrenous foot you need to remove the dead tissue and perhaps even amputate it so it doesn't spread and kill you? Imagine that except half of "your" body. Also the surviving twin usually goes into shock from the trauma, and from having a bunch of rapidly failing organs in their meat vessel.

However I don't think its really physically possible right now to remove them from each other. Their anatomy is so intertwined, and perhaps with modern medicine you could. But honestly its really dicey and the surviving twin would have to lose an arm and a leg nvm all the other things. If I were them in that situation I would probably just want you to kill me at that point tbh. Far smarter minds than me would have to come up with a good plan if the other twin even wants a chance to survive the surgery.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

What if one sister wants to MAID and the other doesn't? What about pregnancy? Can "they" get pregnant?

So here's something a bit more interesting they each control one arm and leg. So everything they do have to be coordinated. They also are kindergarten teachers. This is from the documentary showing what they share.
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Did a write up on conjoined twins once that has more info on their type of twinning.

I wonder if if the ovaries only come from one, or is it split down the middle? If that's true it could be possible for them to have twins that are half-siblings.

It's amazing that the hearts are able to beat properly since each one is likely connected to one brain and don't coordinate. If they didn't beat properly, it would literally be a fatal condition.

The 1 liver sucks. That is one organ you'd want 2 of. Having 1 liver for all that extra mass likely puts quite a strain on it.

 

[LaxerBRO]

What happens if one of the pair doesn't want to have sex, but the husband fucks them anyway? Is that rape?

We used to have solutions to your question:

 

[Pokemon Conquistador]

The movie Freaks had a subplot about a couple of cojoined twins who were marrying different men. The twins were played by real life cojoined twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton, whose level of cojoinment wasn't nearly as severe as the Hensel twins. In fact, if they had lived today, they probably would have easily been separated as babies. The twins weren't allowed by law to marry, even though they tried, and one of the girls even got pregnant and gave birth to a baby they couldn't keep. After one of them died of the flu, the other just laid there in bed for a few days, not calling for help, just deciding to die. Real sad story.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Does one head spits while the other shallows?

Fucking hell. I choked on my gum.

I like....want to be happy for them but.....then I think oh well then get a husband for the other girl. But for all we know it'll end with the two men together. This is a fucking crazy medical case I'm sorry. Should have had surgery.

Shit makes my skin crawl.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Conjoined twins are a interest of mine I can try to field any questions people have.

However I don't think its really physically possible right now to remove them from each other. Their anatomy is so intertwined, and perhaps with modern medicine you could. But honestly its really dicey and the surviving twin would have to lose an arm and a leg nvm all the other things. If I were them in that situation I would probably just want you to kill me at that point tbh. Far smarter minds than me would have to come up with a good plan if the other twin even wants a chance to survive the surgery.

It was possible the parents had them assessed but since each would have 1 leg and 1 arm it was deemed to be more of a disability.

It also was risky because a similar pair of twins had one die following surgery.

This is a similar pair of twins who were seperated one now has issues with her kidneys but both live good lives. They were conjoined a little lower and had 2 arms each.

What if one sister wants to MAID and the other doesn't? What about pregnancy? Can "they" get pregnant?

It's amazing that the hearts are able to beat properly since each one is likely connected to one brain and don't coordinate. If they didn't beat properly, it would literally be a fatal condition.

As far as documenatires on them have stated they have a fully working reproductive system the issue will be what twin is considered the mother.

So their circulatory systems are interesting the earliest documentary on them mentioned that medication taken by one twin effects the other instead.

 

[gamerweeb1]

absolutely disgusting. not saying they shouldnt find love, but the guy marrying that is a straight up freak.

Isn’t that a contradictory statement?

The ONLY way conjoined twins could find love is to marry someone freaky enough to fuck that.

 

[Kulee Baba]

The fact that these two went out and got a normie career instead of just being permanent government leeches makes me think they have some of the strongest character one could imagine. I would be absolutely fine if they just lived on the government dole and any autist-neet-shutin should look at these two and realize their alleged societal rejection is entirely self imposed.

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

So their circulatory systems are interesting the earliest documentary on them mentioned that medication taken by one twin effects the other instead.

Ah, dimly I recall that. Apparently one has a more sensitive stomach so the other wound up taking the required medicine even though she wasn't the sick one. Still worked, fewer side effects.

 

[Cyclonus]

The threesome thing probably isn't freaky to them, they have absolutely no concept of privacy. They've been together from birth, showering, going to the the toilet, masturbating, menstruating together all this time. For them the idea of being truly alone is as much of a foreign concept as us trying to imagine what it would be like to be one of them.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

" I love anal but my sister hates it"

 

[Fireman Sam]

I'm happy for them. They've lived a unique life and it couldn't have been easy. They deserve happiness. Scrutiny should be on the husband's proclivities if anything, not these twins.

 

[Cyclonus]

Oh for gods sake, who cares if the husband is actually into it? It would probably have to be a guy like that, this isn't exactly something that's easy to ignore. This isn't exactly a "one of her legs is a bit shorter than the other, that's a bit offputting but I'll be able to ignore it because I love her" kind of situation.

Lets face it, he's marrying both of them. He had to pick one to go with officially because it's illegal to have two wives. Maybe they tossed a coin or something. And if everybody loves each other and nobody's taking advantage of anyone then what's the problem? The only alternative would be legally condemning these poor women to a lifetime of celibacy. I hope they all live happily ever after.

 

[Kugelsak Kastengrus 6th]

Due to how conjoined they are, it would have been inhumane to separate them, even upon being born. As a tribute to the human spirit, they made it work. They most likely realized a long time ago that privacy between themselves would never be a thing, so they accepted it. They also took advantage of the fact that they would act as a sounding board for each other and allow themselves the ability to really think through every decision they make. I'm also certain that marriage and sex was definitely something they discussed and came to an agreement upon. Their existence is thanks to their cooperation with each other, and honestly, they are a far better person than most people.

Also, in regards to them being a teacher and how kids would react, kids are far quicker to adapt than adults. It'll seem weird at first, but after a week or so, they simply see the twins as their teacher.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

It'll seem weird at first, but after a week or so, they simply see the twins as their teacher.

They mainly have to get used to a teacher who can literally be looking two ways at the same time.

I mean she must be able to almost cover 300 degrees.

 

[demicolon]

Infinite threesomes heyooo!

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

but I guess the one on the right is just permanent third wheel,

She isn't. He is. Have you seen how these women talk? Their brain is kinda connected. When one of them speaks, the other tends to end the sentence together with her sister. Like they often are both talking at the same time at the end of a sentence. Really weird stuff.

Their mother also said that one of them doesn't like ketchup so when the other one eats it the other one makes a grimace as if she can taste it too.

It's like they are one person but at the same they are two people

Creepy & fascinating at the same time.

 

[Flamin Park]

I'd love to see them in a celebrity boxing match