They are the most famous conjoined twins in the world.
Now, they have attracted new attention after sparking pregnancy rumors by sharing an unusual video on social media.
Abby and Brittany Hensel, who rose to fame after starring in a fly-on-the-wall reality series, shared a 30-second video. clip on tiktok which included a series of “breaking news” headlines. The final headline read: “Married and baby on the way.”
The video, which was shared without a title, left many fans wondering if the twins were expecting, and others congratulated the couple.
‘Congratulations, mom, dad and aunt! How amazing,” one wrote.
‘Congratulations! What a blessing to be a mom. I wish you both a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery,” said another.
But it has also led many to speculate about how, physically, the sisters could have a baby.
Like most conjoined twins, Abby and Brittany, 34, have never spoken publicly about their sex life, despite immense public curiosity.
Abby (right) and Brittany (left) Hensel, who rose to fame on a reality series, have attracted new attention after sparking pregnancy rumors by sharing a rare video on social media. Pictured are the twins with Abby’s husband, Josh Bowling.
The Minnesota twins are one of the few pairs of dicephalic twins in history, meaning they have two heads and two hearts but share a single body from the waist down, including their genitals.
The 30-second clip on TikTok featured a series of ‘breaking news’ headlines. The final headline read: “Married and with a baby on the way.”
The Minnesota twins are one of the few pairs of dicephalic twins in history, meaning they have two heads and two hearts but share a single body from the waist down, including their genitals and reproductive organs.
They both currently teach fourth and fifth grades at a local elementary school, where they share the same salary because they teach the same classes.
Although Brittany (the left twin) cannot feel anything on the right side of her body and Abigail (the right twin) cannot feel anything on the left side, their limbs instinctively move as if they were coordinated by a single person.
This means that they can conceive a child in the conventional way.
However, it is unclear who the legal mother would be and whether there would be complications when having a baby.
In 2021, Charity Lincoln Gutiérrez-Vázquez welcomed a healthy baby girl at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, the same hospital where she and her conjoined twin were born 21 years earlier.
She and her twin sister Kathleen were joined from the sternum to the pelvis when they were born in 2000.
The sisters, each of whom had one leg, shared several internal organs and a fused third leg.
The video, which was shared without a title, left many fans wondering if the twins were expecting, and others congratulated the couple.
They both currently teach fourth and fifth grades at a local elementary school, where they share the same salary because they teach the same classes. Pictured with Abby’s husband, Josh Bowling.
However, when they were seven months old, a team of nearly 30 doctors, nurses and support staff successfully separated them during a dangerous 31-hour surgery.
Only one case of successful pregnancy in conjoined twins not surgically separated has been recorded in the medical literature.
The 2001 report, American doctors from the Atlanta Medical Center in Georgia documented the birth of the Blazek sisters.
Josepha and Rosa Blazek, born in 1878, were monogenital pygopagus twins, meaning they were joined at the base of the spine and pelvis, but had separate vaginas.
The sisters claimed to have had sexual intercourse only once (in July 1909) with Rosa’s vagina, but Josepha claimed that she “also had a libido.”
Rosa’s last period before pregnancy occurred in July 1909.
writing in the American Journal of Obstetrics and GynecologyThe doctors said: ‘The twins recalled that early in their pregnancy, Rosa experienced hyperemesis gravidarum, but Josepha was saved.
“Josepha continued to menstruate from her side of the shared vagina throughout Rosa’s pregnancy and until approximately 32 weeks.”
In 2021, Charity Lincoln Gutiérrez-Vázquez welcomed a healthy baby girl at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, the same hospital where she and her conjoined twin were born 21 years earlier.
In the photo, with her husband Rubén Gutiérrez-Vázquez, after the birth of their daughter Álora.
She and her twin sister Kathleen were joined from the sternum to the pelvis when they were born in 2000. The sisters, who each had one leg, shared several internal organs and a fused third leg.
In April 1910, Rosa welcomed a “healthy” son born vaginally. The baby was also breastfed.
But no first-hand account of the baby’s delivery or additional details of the birth were ever published in the medical literature.
If Abby or Brittany have biological children, they would be the first dicephalic (or fused side by side) twins to do so.
Each woman has a heart and lungs, but all other organs, including the reproductive system, are shared.
Siamese brothers, Chang and Eng Bunker, born in 1811, had 21 children between them.
Abby and Brittany have always been clear that they want to find romance and be mothers.
In interviews during her teenage years, Abby said, “Yes, we will be mothers someday, but we don’t want to talk about how it’s going to work yet.”
Brittany added: ‘We’re going to be great moms.
Only one case of successful pregnancy of conjoined twins has been recorded in the medical literature. The 2001 report, prepared by American doctors at the Atlanta Medical Center in Georgia, documented the birth of the Blazek sisters.
Josepha and Rosa Blazek, born in 1878, were monogenital pygopagus twins, meaning they were joined at the base of the spine and pelvis, but had separate vaginas.
“The whole world doesn’t need to know who we’re seeing, what we’re doing and when we’re going to do it.”
Conjoined twins occur when siblings have fused skin or internal organs, affecting approximately one in every 200,000 live births.
It is caused by a fertilized egg beginning to divide into two embryos a few weeks after conception, but the process stops before completion.
The most common type is twins joined at the chest or abdomen.
Doctors can only know which organs siblings share, and therefore plan surgery, after they are born.
At least one twin survives 75 percent of the time.
Only one set of twins in every 40,000 are born connected in any way to each other and only one percent of them survive beyond the first year.