Wow! Who would’ve thought?
Siamese twins Abby and Brittany Hensel became worldwide news after being born in 1990.
It’s not often you hear about healthy Siamese twins being born. But 22 years later, the twins make an announcement that shocks the world.
Read on to see what the twins are doing.
Back in the limelight
After their birth, the Siamese twins constantly surprised everyone. Because the two are stuck together, they did everything in their own unique way. From daily tasks to other successes. Over two decades after their birth, this shocking news put them back in the spotlight.
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Rare way
Abby and Brittany Hensel were born on March 7th, 1990 in Carver County, Minnesota. When the sisters were born, the doctors discovered that they were attached in an unbelievably rare way. They’re known as dicephalic paragabus twins which means they share one body.
Small chance of survival
The Hensel twins had an extremely low chance of surviving. Siamese twins are of course very rare; about 1 in 189,000 babies is a Siamese twin. And only 11% percent of this already small population is born dicephalic paragabus. The chance of Abby and Brittany being born was extremely small.