Conjoined twins, Abby and Brittany Hensel, have hit back at comments on social media after Abby’s 2021 wedding went viral.

The US twins, who have been joined since birth, have hit the headlines recently after pictures from Abby’s wedding to US Army veteran, Josh Bowling, were made public.

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They rose to fame after they first made an appearance on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996 when they were just six-years-old. Their fame continued as they landed their own reality TV show on TLC titled Abby & Brittany, detailing how they live their lives through study, travelling from the US to Europe and navigating relationships.

The pair have always showed a determined attitude and found ways to adapt to their conjoined status, whilst still living life to the full and that included Abby and Josh’s big day in 2021.

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As videos from the nuptials were made public and shared widely including on Today, the twins have been inundated with questions asking everything from the legalities of being married as conjoined twins to how their sex life works.

Now, the twins have hit back with three TikTok videos as they addressed the questions and comments across social media.

One video features a photo of the three of them together as it had a stark message across reading: “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.”

In another, the pair shared a video detailing the history of conjoined twins as they told fans: “The internet is extra LOUD today. We have always been around”.

The messages and curiosity around Abby and Brittany has been heightened after the wedding pictures were shared.

Josh and Abby have also been asked a typical question for a happily married couple with fans asking if the couple will ever welcome children.

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Many assume because of they are conjoined, neither of the twins will be able to have children, but that is not the case.

Abby and Brittany have both made it clear they want to welcome children in their future.

In a previous documentary, both Brittany and Abby spoke of their desire to have families of their own in the past, with Brittany previously saying: “The whole world doesn’t need to know who we are seeing, what we are doing and when we are going to do it. But believe me, we are totally different people.”

Abby added: “Yeah, we are going to be moms one day, but we don’t want to talk about how it’s going to work yet.”

Abby Hensel, who entered the spotlight in TV appearances with her conjoined twin Brittany, is now married.

Abby and Brittany first gained the attention of the public when they appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996, when they were around six years old.

When they reached their 20s, the sisters became the subject of the TLC reality show Abby & Brittany, which documented the lives of the twins as they graduated college and set out into the real world.

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Fast forward another decade, and Abby is now married to nurse and US Army veteran Josh Bowling.

The couple are pictured along with Brittany in what appears to be a wedding photo on the Hensels’ joint Facebook page, where the twins can be seen wearing a white dress while Bowling is dressed in a white suit.

Though news of the wedding has only just come to light, public records obtained by Today revealed that the pair actually tied the knot in 2021.

Three years on, the couple look happy in images of them travelling, hiking and generally enjoying life together.

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Brittany, Abby and Josh live in Minnesota, where the sisters grew up, and the twins are now said to be working as fifth grade teachers.

Josh’s X account describes him as a ‘Christian, Father, Husband, Veteran, and occasional gamer’.

As dicephalus conjoined twins, Abby and Brittany share a bloodstream and all organs below the waist. Abby controls their right arm and leg, while Brittany controls the limbs on the left.

In the first episode of their reality TV show, the twins said people had been ‘curious’ about them since they were born.

“But our parents never let us use that as an excuse. We were raised to believe we could do anything we wanted to do,” they said.

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Abby and Brittany’s parents, Patty and Mike, were given the option to separate the twins at birth, but ultimately decided against the procedure after being told there was little chance that both twins could survive.

In 2003, Abby and Brittany featured in a documentary titled Joined For Life in which Patty confirmed her children were interested in becoming moms themselves one day.

“That is probably something that could work because those organs do work for them,” she said.

Brittany confirmed their hopes for the future at the time, saying: “Yeah, we’re going to be moms. We haven’t thought about how being moms is going to work yet.

“But we’re just 16 — we don’t need to think about that right now.”