

The girls' new series, Abby and Brittany, will debut on TLC on Tuesday, August 28 at 10 p.m. The girls are best known from a series of documentary specials-one shot when they were 11, one shot when they were 16-that aired on the Discovery Channel and TLC, and are still re-run pretty frequently, especially during the dead zone between Christmas and New Years, when people have run out of things to say to their families. In the language of TV specials, they are "Joined for Life," "Twins Who Share a Body," or maybe 2 Girls 2 Cups 1 Body.

This primer will answer some basic questions about conjoined twins Abby & Brittany and, in so doing, inspire you to come up with many, many more of your own.Ībigail "Abby" Hensel and Brittany "Brittany" Hensel are 22-year-old conjoined twins from Minnesota. When it was announced earlier this month that the Hensel Twins, Abby & Brittany, had been given their own TLC series (premiering tonight) people who watch TV all the time were like, "FINALLY" and people who occasionally make time for other pursuits were like, "WHAT IS HAPPENING?" Internet-Famous Conjoined Twins Finally Getting Their Own TLC TV ShowĪbigail and Brittany Hensel, the most famous conjoined twins on the Internet and arguably in…
