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The sense of touch of each is restricted to her body half this shades off at the midsagittal plane such that there is a small amount of overlap at the midline. Įach of the twins manages one side of their conjoined body. At age 12, they underwent surgery at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare to correct scoliosis and to expand their chest cavity to prevent future difficulties with breathing. The arm was removed, leaving the shoulder blade.Ībigail's head tilts laterally outward about 5 degrees to the right while Brittany's head tilts laterally at about 15 degrees to the left, causing Brittany to appear shorter. At birth they had a rudimentary arm attached to a shoulder blade at the back. The Hensel twins have a single body with separate heads and necks, a chest that is wider than normal, two arms and two legs. They were raised in New Germany and attended Lutheran High School in Mayer, Minnesota. The twins have a younger brother named Dakota, or Koty for short, a younger sister named Morgan, and a dog named Sadie.
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At the age of 16, they gave an interview on The Learning Channel on December 17, 2006, in which they discussed aspects of their daily lives and plans for the future.Ībigail and Brittany Hensel were born in Carver County, Minnesota, the daughters of Patty, a registered nurse, and Mike Hensel, a carpenter and landscaper. Other activities as diverse as brushing hair and driving a car require that each twin perform a sequence of quite separate actions that coordinate with the other.ĭespite the curiosity that their condition has generated, the Hensel twins have managed to live private lives with relatively little press attention. While each is able to eat and write separately and simultaneously, activities such as running and swimming must be coordinated and alternate symmetrically. This means that as infants, the initial learning of physical processes that required bodily coordination, such as clapping, crawling, and walking required the cooperation of both children. In fact, several vital organs are doubled up, each twin having a separate heart, stomach, spine and spinal cord.Įach twin controls her half of their body, operating one of the arms and one of the legs. They are highly symmetric, giving the appearance of having just a single body with little variation from normal proportion. Abigail "Abby" Loraine Hensel and Brittany "Britty" Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are dicephalic parapagus twins, meaning that they are conjoined twins of whom each has a separate head, but whose bodies are joined.