

The twins graduated from Mayer Lutheran High School and completed a course at Bethel University in St. Abby and Brittany Hensel’s BioĪbigail Loraine aka “Abby” and Brittany LeeHensel aka “Britt” are twins born on Mato Patty and Mike Hensel. Her mother is a nurse and her father is a carpenter and landscaper. The twins have two younger siblings – a brother Dakota and a sister Morgan Hensel. They were born in Carver County, Minnesota and raised in New Germany, Minnesota. The survival rate of conjoined twins male or femaleIt is said that after giving birth to 400,000 people, the female is 1 to 1 short and slender. This makes the case of Abby and Brittany one of the rarest events, occurring in 1 in 4,000 births. However, it is also believed that female twins have a higher survival rate than their male counterparts, with a 70% chance of life after birth.Ībby and Brittany Hensel are the world’s longest surviving, most famous conjoined twins. They have one body, two limbs, two heads, two pairs of eyes, two necks with separate vital organs such as two hearts, three kidneys, two spines connected at the pelvis, and four lungs, but share the thoracic, circulatory, nervous, and reproductive systems. They have learned over years to coordinate and synchronize their separate and shared activities such as walking, running, clapping, etc.

Abby and Brittany Hensel’s arrival came as a surprise to their parents and the doctors who attended their mother’s study because their prenatal scan showed only one child, not two. Abby and Brittany Hensel were born Cube Halic Parapagus ( twins) and their parents were given two choices separate them and risk losing one or both, or let them grow up together.
