Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hense have been spotted with a newborn baby, more than a year after news of Abby’s secret marriage.
The 34-year-old sisters, who starred in their own TLC reality series, were seen on Thursday in Arden Hills, Minnesota, carrying an infant in a car seat and placing it into the back of a black Tesla.
While the Hensels have not confirmed whether the child is theirs, the sighting has fueled widespread speculation.
Interest in the conjoined twins’ private lives spiked when it emerged that Abby had quietly married Josh Bowling in 2021.
The marriage was confirmed through official records obtained by TMZ revealed that Abby is now a stepmother to Bowling’s daughter from a previous relationship.
Bowling also updated his Facebook profile photo to include both Abby and Brittany, presenting a united family image.
Though their wedding drew curiosity and even criticism online, the sisters were quick to address the noise. In a TikTok posted shortly after the news broke, they responded directly: “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.”
They followed up with more clips from Abby and Bowling’s wedding, including their first dance to a remix of Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep.’
Another video of the sisters was captioned: “We know you think you know us,” set to Justine Skye’s ‘Collide.’
Questions about the twins’ future, particularly around motherhood, have followed them since their teens.
In the 2003 documentary Joined for Life, they said: “Yeah, we’re going to be moms. We haven’t thought about how being moms is going to work yet,” according to E! News.
That speculation has only grown with time as Abby and Brittany are dicephalic conjoined twins, meaning they have two heads but share one body, including vital organs and a reproductive system.
While they control opposite sides of their body, Abby the right, Brittany the left, they share everything below the waist.
Medical ethicists have weighed in on the implications of this. Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University, told The Atlantic: “If twins share one set of genitals, they’re both going to feel any touching down there.”
Whether both are considered to be “having sex” depends on one’s definition, she said, adding that intimacy for conjoined twins involves a complex interplay of nerve responses, hormones, and emotional dynamics.
“They already have their ‘soulmate’ attached to them,” Dreger noted, suggesting that conjoined twins may feel less need to seek outside partners.
Still, the Hensels have maintained a firm line on their privacy. “The whole world doesn’t need to know who we are seeing, what we are doing and when we are going to do it,” Brittany said in a rare statement.
