Media Appearances
They appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 8 and April 29, 1996. In April 1996, the twins were featured on the cover of Life under the caption "One Body, Two Souls", and their daily lifestyle was depicted in the corresponding article entitled "The Hensels' Summer". Life followed up with another story in September 1998. In 2002, they appeared in Joined for Life, a TV documentary by Advanced Medical Productions, distributed on the Discovery Health Channel and a 2003 follow-up, Joined at Birth. In 2003, an updated story of them at age 11 (filmed in 2001) was published in Time and again in Life. In 2006, Advanced Medical made another documentary, Joined for Life: Abby & Brittany turn 16, that discusses the girls' adolescence, school and social life and activities such as getting their driver's licenses. The twins currently star in the reality TV show Abby & Brittany that started in August 2012.
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