23-year-old conjoined twin sisters Lupita and Carmen Andrade asked people to stop using them as a reference when asking questions about Abby and Brittany Hensel, which comes as a result of the Hensel sisters making headlines with Abby’s recent marriage announcement.
Taking to their TikTok page on March 29, Lupita and Carmen shared a video in response to a separate TikToker who was answering questions about the Hensel twins, using the Andrade twins as a reference.
Highlights
- Conjoined twins Lupita and Carmen Andrade requested not to be compared to Abby and Brittany Hensel.
- Lupita and Carmen highlighted differences in living conditions and medical aspects compared to the Hensels.
- The Andrade twins shared their personal experiences, including daily life and medical details, in an FAQs video.
Lupita and Carmen, who have previously replied to the Internet’s burning questions regarding their lives as conjoined twins, did not approve of the use of their own experiences to explain Abby and Brittany’s way of living and medical conditions.
“We share a bloodstream, they may not,” Carmen exclaimed, as one of many examples to show that they should not be quoted to explain the Hensel twins’ different lives.
Lupita and Carmen, conjoined twin sisters, urged people to refrain from using them as a reference for questions about Abby and Brittany Hensel
Image credits: Carmen and Lupita
“Those references of those videos are for us, we’re only speaking about ourselves, nobody else,” Carmen emphasized.
Lupita and Carmen moved to the United States from Mexico when they were babies and have since become influencers, sharing their lives on social media.
According to an interview for Today, published last year, Carmen is in college studying to be a veterinary nurse, while Lupita hopes to work in the same field as a technician.
In a frequently asked questions video shared on their TikTok page in 2022, Lupita and Carmen clarified that they both had two separate brains and, therefore, one could be awake while the other sister could be asleep.
They went on to reveal that in the case of the death of one of them, the other one would likely die shortly after due to sepsis setting in their shared body.
Image credits: Carmen and Lupita
The sisters said they could not control each other’s limbs or “halves,” and they had no idea what would happen if one of them were to commit a crime and go to jail.
In the video, which was subsequently used by another TikToker as the main reference to answer questions about Abby and Brittany, Carmen said that she was in control of the right foot and could, therefore, drive.
“We cannot read each other’s minds,” the sisters humorously said.
They further explained that they shared one reproductive system but that Carmen had one detached uterus.
Carmen has a boyfriend, while Lupita is asexual and doesn't want to date anyone
Image credits: Carmen and Lupita
Moreover, as a result of the shared reproductive system, they both felt the same pain while enduring endometriosis, a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus, causing extreme discomfort.
Carmen went on to ask viewers to “do the math” about weird and inappropriate questions about their sex lives that they have been often subjected to on social media.
The sisters continued to list the uniqueness of their anatomy, saying they live with two different stomachs connected to one digestive system, which means they feel full at two different rates.
Additionally, they said they have two separate hearts, two separate lungs, one kidney each, and one arm and leg each, meaning they had to do physical therapy to learn how to walk.
Due to their shared bloodstream, the twins revealed that if one of them drank alcohol, both of them could feel the effect and, therefore, not be sober.
Lupita and Carmen said they couldn’t have children and did not want to have any children anyway, adding that Carmen has a boyfriend, while Lupita, who identifies as asexual, does not want to date anyone.
Asexual is a term used to describe someone who does not experience sexual attraction toward individuals of any gender.
You can watch their 2022 FAQ video below:
Just like the Andrade sisters, Abby and Brittany are dicephalus-conjoined twins, a rare form of partial twinning, with two heads side by side on one torso.
The Hensel twins have become internet sensations in recent days, particularly following Abby’s secret wedding to Josh Bowling.
The 34-year-old Minnesota twins work as fifth-grade teachers in their home state. They first shared their story in 1996 on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
However, it was on the TLC reality show “Abby & Brittany” that the public got to know more details about their daily lives.
Many readers admitted to being curious
