Abigail Hensel & Brittany Hensel

Born:
Abigail Loraine Hensel
Brittany Lee Hensel
March 7, 1990 (age 24)
Carver County, Minnesota

 

Residence:
St. Paul, Minnesota, US

 

Nationality:
American

 

Education:

Lutheran High School in Mayer, Minnesota
Bethel University

 

Home town:
New Germany, Minnesota, US

 

Parents:
Patty and Mike Hensel

 

Relatives:
Dakota (brother)
Morgan (sister)

Published on Mar 30, 2017

Published on Oct 8, 2012

Abby & Brittany Hensel are two vivacious, funny and outgoing girls on the brink of their 22nd birthday and a quickly approaching college graduation. They're also conjoined twins, which only doubles the energy and fun they exude. The girls are an incredible example of teamwork and compromise, as they differ in so many ways.

 

They are embarking on a huge adventure as each day pushes them closer to graduating college, traveling through Europe and finding their first teaching job to launch them into the "real world."

 

Just like their friends, Abby and Brittany will have to navigate their way through this transitional time of their lives and together grow into their adulthood. From finishing school to exploring new places and people, this is a nerve-wracking but exciting time for the girls as they step into this next phase of life.

Abby and Brittany Hensel: Spring Break!

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Abby & Brittany Hensel are two vivacious, funny and outgoing girls on the brink of their 22nd birthday and a quickly approaching college graduation. They're also conjoined twins, which only doubles the energy and fun they exude. The girls are an incredible example of teamwork and compromise, as they differ in so many ways.

 

They are embarking on a huge adventure as each day pushes them closer to graduating college, traveling through Europe and finding their first teaching job to launch them into the "real world." Just like their friends, Abby and Brittany will have to navigate their way through this transitional time of their lives and together grow into their adulthood. From finishing school to exploring new places and people, this is a nerve-wracking but exciting time for the girls as they step into this next phase of life.

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel just celebrated their 22nd birthday and are graduating from college and embarking on travel and a job search.

Published on Jul 19, 2014

Published on Jul 19, 2014

Published on Oct 12, 2015

Published on Apr 23, 2011

Although they are two completely separate people, these accomplished teens 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 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 and playing softball "Their personalities make them inspirational," says their mother Patty. "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 co-ordinated way, but the twins and their family have always resisted non-essential medical tests. "The family want to treat them as though they are just like everyone else," says Joy Westerdahl, the girls' doctor, who 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.