'SO PRETTY' Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany, 34, praised for beach bikini photo after wedding joy
CONJOINED twins Abby and Brittany have been showered with praise after sharing a sweet bikini snap.
The pair, 34, were also seen glowing in new pics of Abby's wedding to husband Josh Bowling revealed last week.
The Hensel twins have their arm around a friend in the holiday snap as they pose on the beach.
Both are grinning widely as they soak up the sun.
Fans rushed to compliment the "beautiful" women, wishing them "love".
One wrote: "Congratulations to the twin who married! May God bless your lives! You are beautiful!“I wish you lots of love, peace and light!"
Someone else told them: "So pretty", and others gushed that they were happy for the pair.
Another mentioned Abby's wedding, saying: “Congrats Abby, good for you for keeping it a secret, I'm looking forward to seeing what married life brings for you!”
Abby posted surprise pictures last week of herself and twin sister Brittany in a white wedding gown next to hubby Josh.In a TikTok post viewed by millions, the couple gushed that they were “happy” and in “love”.
Abby and Brittany defied doctors concerns when they were born with rare condition dicephalic parapagus in 1990.
Both women have their own heart, stomach and pair of lungs, but they share a single body from the waist down.
Abby controls their right arm and leg, while Brittany controls the left side.
Parents Patty, a nurse, and Mike, a carpenter, were not even aware they were having twins, let alone conjoined ones, until Patty gave birth.
Separating the babies medically would have required a hugely invasive and dangerous surgery.
Their parents rejected the idea because of the high risk of further disabilities and the fact both would be wheelchair-bound with one arm and one leg.
The twins captivated the world aged six when they appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996, explaining how they approach life together.
Once they made it to their early teens, Abby and Brittany then featured in 2003 documentary Joined For Life.
With such interest in their incredible lives, the twins have had to navigate vicious online trolls for years.
As a result, Abby had not revealed her marriage to Josh until last week.
After the couple decided to go public with pictures from their 2021 wedding they revealed the hateful comments they'd been subjected to in an online post.
Brittany and Josh wrote: “This is a message to all the haters out there.
“If you don’t like what I do, but you watch everything I’m doing, you’re still a fan.”
Unfortunately for the newlyweds, another public scandal surfaced when Josh was hit with a paternity suit by his ex-wife Annica.According to court records, the pair married in 2010 before splitting in 2019, two years before Josh tied the knot with Abby.
They currently share custody of their eight-year-old daughter Isabella.
What are conjoined twins?
CONJOINED twins are two babies who are born physically connected to each other.
They develop when an early embryo only partially separates to form two individuals.
Although two babies develop from this embryo, they remain physically connected – most often at the chest, abdomen or pelvis.
Dicephalic parapagus is a rare form of partial twinning that involves having two heads on one torso.
The twins have a single body and below the waist, all the organs are shared, including the intestine, genitalia and bladder.
Conjoined twins are very rare and occur on average once every 50,000 to 100,000 births.
Most dicephalic twins are stillborn, or die soon after birth.
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