Abigail & Brittany Hensel - The Twins Who Share a Body

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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel

Comments

1. I wonder what happens when one head becomes alcoholic or drug addicted then she destroys their shared body. Also when they masturbate it is kinda awkward. Is it incest rape if one head wakes up and starts masturbating without the other knowing? Or if one head is lesbian and starts to assualt the other... weird stuff. Also imagine them falling down and one head gets damaged beyond repair. They then have to remove the dead head. And the remaining head cannot control the other side of the body....
2. 38:20 Can they not just tell him to fuck off?
3. they can't keep secrets from each other
4. I wonder what's going to happen when one of them wants to have sex
5. It's so 😰
6. Wait, so if one ate and the other didn't, Would the other be full or not.
7. Wait, so they both control one arm
8. why the music in the begining is so freaky?
9. THE ODDDSSS!!!!!!!! 1 IN 30MILLION ARE U KIDDING OMFG IM BADAZZLED
10. Ewsh. Painful birth
11. I've always thought that these girls are terrific.
12. Dream work makes the team work..... or is it the other way around
13. I don't get impressed easily but wow.. they're amazing, I never knew this was possible, I wish I could met them.
14. They should play Competetive Video Games. One will master strafing, the other masters the quick scope attack
15. I hope to see theme one day
16. it looks like Abby is the head head. her head us straight up while Brittinys head is to the side to make room for Abby
17. What if one dies what happens to the other one?
18. its like a girl with 2 heads but its 2 twins in the same body
19. Would if 1 of them dies from a heart disease does the other 1 die too?
20. The one with longer hair reminds me of lily from hannah montana