Abigail and Brittany Hensel

 
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Headline Tag: Celebrities Rating: Amazing Hits: 696 Comments: 6 Abby and Brittany Hensel: Twins Who Share a Body Abby and Brittany Hensel: Twins Who Share a Body Although they are two completely separate people, these accomplished teens (Abigail and Brittany Hensel) share a body and have just two arms and legs between them. Born in 1990, the girls have been brought up in a small, tightly knit community in Minnesota, almost completely protected from prying eyes and inquisitive stares. To their friends and family, they are distinct people with very different personalities, needs, tastes, and desires. But to the outside world they are sort of a medical mystery, particularly given the fact that they can do virtually all the same things as their friends, including playing the piano, riding a bike, swimming, driving a car, and playing softball. Their personalities make them inspirational, their mother says. They never give up; anything they want to do, they go out and do it. The medical world is keen to find out how two separate brains and nervous systems can work in such a perfectly coordinated way, but the twins and their family have always resisted nonessential medical tests. The family want to treat them as though they are just like everyone else, Joy Westerdahl, the girls' doctor, says. She admits that it is a mystery how their unique physiology functions. As they enter adulthood, the twins are likely to leave the haven of their home town and face the wider world. In preparation for that time, they have taken part in this intimate documentary to show the world what it is like to be joined for life. User: White_Wolf May 26, 2008 3:21 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Ok Hits: 10587 Comments: 22 Abby and Brittany Hensel: The Girl with Two Heads Abby and Brittany Hensel: The Girl with Two Heads Abigail "Abby" Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born 7 March 1990, Carver County, Minnesota, United States), are dicephalic conjoined twins. Brittany is the left twin, and Abigail is the right twin. They have two spines which join at the pelvis. They have two stomachs, three lungs, and two arms. A third, underdeveloped and useless arm between their heads was amputated in infancy. User: Khymera Feb 1, 2007 1:54 PM
 
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