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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    291·
    8 months ago

    Everything I’ve read or seen about them shows that they unsurprisingly have a lot of ways of coping with each other when they disagree, even when it is a major disagreement. What’s interesting is that they use “I” as a single entity when they agree and consider each other separate entities when they don’t.

    I don’t know what both think about pregnancy, but they’re school teachers, so they definitely like kids. I wonder if pregnancy is even a possibility? Or maybe unwise if their condition is genetic.

    • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
      311·
      8 months ago

      but they’re school teachers, so they definitely like kids

      Oh, you sweet summer child.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        5·
        8 months ago

        I remember my school teachers telling us they don’t have kids because they have enough of kids in their job, which makes perfect sense for me.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 months ago

      The closest anyone says is that they share a single set of reproductive organs and are a single entity “below the waist”.

      Any obstetrician worth their degree would probably consider it a high risk pregnancy due to all the unknown factors. How would an epidural work, for example? No clue. Pregnancy is a stressful event under normal circumstances, no clue what would happen here.

      In the Chang and Eng case, the twins were brothers who impregnated separate sisters, so the pregancies themselves were normal (despite being 21 or 22 of them).

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        61·
        8 months ago

        It may not even be possible for them to get pregnant. Who knows how functional those reproductive organs are?

    • Pretzilla@lemmy.world
      63·
      8 months ago

      Great use case for adoption

      (As should be always considered and promoted anyway since overpopulation is rapidly killing the planet)