What happened next to famous conjoined twins?
Most recently, two one-year-old twin girls who were joined together were finally able to see each other for the first time, after a successful 12-hour operation to separate them.
Conjoined twins are extremely rare – the condition is thought to affect one in every 200,000 births – so this is only the 20th time such an operation has been performed.
Here we take a look at some other famous conjoined siblings and find out what they did next…
‘We always knew we were different’
When 19-year-old sisters Sanchia and Eman Mowatt were just three months old, they endured a 16-hour procedure at Birmingham Children’s Hospital to separate them.
Miraculously, the separation of their spines and internal organs was a complete success, and meant that the couple went on to live normal lives, even despite all the difficulties of learning to walk.
The couple had to endure continued hospital treatment, but were able to pursue different interests.
With the odds stacked against them, there’s sadly heartache for a lot of conjoined twins and their families.
TikTok star Gabby Garcia, now 22, was separated from her twin Michaela when the pair were eight months old, but sadly Michaela lost her life from an ɪɴғᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ 13 years later.
The couple have shared a pair of legs, kidneys, bladder and intestines, and Gabby now tells their story on social media to raise awareness of their condition.
Despite difficulties and missing her sibling every day, Gabby refuses to focus on any negativity.
She says she believes the saying: “It’ll all be OK in the end, and if it’s not OK, then it’s not the end.”
‘We run and do sports’
Not all conjoined twins who have lived happily ever after have been separated, and there are 12 adult conjoined twins around the world.
Despite their different personalities and fashion sense, Abby and Brittany Hensel, 31, share the same set of arms and legs, and an incredibly strong bond.
The sisters starred in their own reality series, and have worked together since birth to successfully navigate everything from driving, to swimming, to now part-time classroom teachers 5.
Too risky to separate
The life expectancy for conjoined twins at birth can be low, but despite being given just days to live, Carmen and Lupita Andrade have celebrated their 18th birthday.
Born in Mexico in 2002, they are conjoined from the chest to the pelvis, and have two arms and one leg each, with Carmen controlling the right and Lupita controlling the left.
The sisters, who starred in recent documentary Two Sisters, One Body, each have their own hearts, lungs and stomachs.
However they share a liver, circulatory, reproductive and digestive system which meant it was too risky to separate them.
Source:thesun.co.uk
