Abigail and Brittany Hensel

Abigail and Brittany Hensel were born in 1990 in Minnesota. They are conjoined twins who look like a girl with 2 heads. Each of the girls manage one side of their conjoined body. They have 2 spines which join at the pelvis. They have 2 stomachs, three lungs and they had 3 arms when they were born but one arm which was useless was amputated when they were babies. They are very compassionate girls and they have quite different tastes from food to clothes. Even at their birth they were considered to share too many of their bodily functions to be separated (one of the girls would have had to die for sure and the other would have run a very big risk of dying, too) and as of today it looks like it will never be possible to separate them. At age 12 they had to undergo surgery to correct the scoliosis they had developed from having to carry 2 heads on 2 spines that were more like one. The twins' parents buy them clothes which are altered by a seamstress so that they have two separate necklines in order to stress out that they are two individual persons. Abby and Britty can walk perfectly well and they like to perform sports like Volleyball, Basketball, Knickball, swimming, riding a bicycle, riding and other sports. Their bloodstreams are connected, so if one sister takes a medicine both benefit from it and they share the individual nutrients taken in from one or the other of the girls. They know they could never be separated. Britty says: "I'm not going to be separated" and Abby says: "And I don't have two heads".

Web links:

Hensel sisters page with pictures (http://phreeque.tripod.com/hensel_sisters.html)

Hensel sistes additional info (http://members.tripod.com/~midnightwill/twins.html)

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