Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel looks back on his 2024 whirlwind.
On Monday, Dec. 30, the sisters released the “2024 Replay” video via TikTok to relive some of the highlights of the past year, including Abby's wedding to her husband. Joshua Bowling.
The duo tied the knot in November 2021, but the milestone wasn't made public until March when a video was shot of Abby and Joshua the first dance became widespread. (Today was the first to break the news by obtaining their wedding records.)
Other images in the 2024 recap included Abby and Brittany, both 34, eating ice cream with Bowling and his daughter Isabella. The sisters also shared a selfie with Bowling that was originally published in October.
Abby and Brittany rose to fame in the late 1990s after appearing on various daytime TV shows. They then told their story in the 2006 documentary Joiled for lifewhich aired on TLC. Siblings are dicephalic conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one body. They share the same circulation and all organs below the waist, Abby controls their right limbs and Brittany controls their left. (girls' parents, Mike and Patty HenselIn 1990, it was decided not to separate them at birth, as it was unlikely that the duo would survive the procedure.)
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When they turned 16, Abby and Brittany chronicled the moment, including learning to drive, in a second documentary released in 2008. By 2012, they were back with TLC documentaries. Abby and Brittany. After one season, the series came to an end, and the twins lived relatively low-key lives out of the public eye. Abby and Brittany are both fifth grade teachers in Brighton, Minnesota.
The sisters have faced a lot of criticism over the years, with some trolls questioning their lifestyle, but Abby and Brittany have remained undisturbed.
“This is a message to all the haters,” a deep voice was heard saying in a March TikTok video shared on the twins' profile. “If you don't like what I do but watch everything I do, you're still a fan.”
In a separate clip the same month, they shared a collection of images featuring several conjoined statues of the twins.
“The internet is extra LOUD today,” the duo captioned their post. “We've always been there.”