Abigail and Brittany Hensel twins were born on March 7, 1990 in Minnesota (USA) with a strange "anomaly" known as Policefalia (Polycephaly), both are identical twins, female, but they share the uniqueness of one body, having two spines, two hearts, three kidneys, two stomachs and three lungs ...
The shared information about their bodies is :
- 2 heads
- 2 arms - at birth had 3 arms, but a deformed arm amputee was in its infancy.
- 2 spinal cords and backbones that are combined in the pelvis
- 3 lungs
- 2 hearts in a shared circulatory system
- 1 liver
- 2 stomachs
- 3 kidneys
- 1 large intestine
- 1 small intestine
- 1 reproductive system
- 2 legs
His parents say that when the twins were born they decided not to separate them, because they share many functions and body organs, which would have been very risky intervention.
During his life the twins have had surgery, among which the amputation of one arm-no-developed (third), who was at the center of their heads, surgery to correct scoliosis and to expand other his chest cavity in order to prevent future problems with breathing.
The girls have learned to adapt and coordinate their bodies (handles each side of your body and write each with his own hand), their nervous systems are connected and partially shared allowing certain activities.
Such as walking and playing sports such as volleyball, basketball , kickball, biking, swimming and even enjoy singing and playing the piano.
Despite sharing a single body the girls have different tastes regarding food and how to dress.
Abigail and Brittany are now 22ears old and in the documentary tells how their daily lives are both in school, social, and problems like any teenager, to go for a ride in his car, with his newly acquired license driving.
Ad above all these girls give us a great example of drive and strength to get by with the "adversity".
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