A pair of twins named Ballenie and Bellanie … sound complicated enough? Well, of course, they were born as conjoined twins, dovetailed together at their lower back. (Couldn’t you guess? No?) What became of them? Read on to hear their story.
Conjoined twins were formerly nicknamed “Siamese twins” in English, before the general population began to worry about political correctness. (The term “Siamese twins” became synonymous with “conjoined twins” due to Chang and Eng Bunker of the 19th century, the most famous pair of conjoined twins in history, whose livers were fused and surrounded by skin and cartilage. They could easily have been surgically separated today.
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