Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in the TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany,” have a new member of the family.

Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in the TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany,” have a new member of the family.

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel first gained national attention when they appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1996.

Now the sisters have reached a major life milestone: Abby is married.

The Hensels later starred in the feel-good TLC reality series “Abby and Brittany,” which showed them driving, traveling to Europe and even riding a moped. When the show ended after one season, Abby and Brittany had just graduated from college with degrees in education.

A lot has happened in the last decade. Abby, 34, is now married. According to public records, Abby, a teacher, and Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran, tied the knot in 2021. The sisters also shared photos of the wedding on social media. The couple live in Minnesota, where the Hensels were born and raised.

  • @Stovetop
    55•9 months ago

    I’d imagine most are a lot more minor than this. Baby is born with a small growth that turns out to be a malformed limb of an incomplete/reabsorbed twin, doctors remove it quickly after birth, and the baby goes on to live a normal life.

    I’ve heard of there being chimera people as well who go through most of their life assuming they’re perfectly normal until they learn that their DNA in one part of their body doesn’t match their DNA in another part of their body.

    • @[email protected]
      11•9 months ago

      I’m sure it’s been done, but your explanation of a chimera person sounds like a great idea for some kind of detective novel or something.

      • @Stovetop
        19•9 months ago

        My memory is hazy, but I recall there being a story from years back of a mother who ended up in a bit of a legal dispute because her child was DNA tested and determined to not be hers, because part of her reproductive organs were actually those of an unformed sororal twin.

        Edit: found it.

        • @bitchkatEnglish
          6•9 months ago

          I was just talking to my son about that lady yesterday.

      • @[email protected]
        8•9 months ago

        CSI had an episode where they were tracking down all of a suspect’s siblings & it turned out the killer was a chimera.