A pair of Siamese twins have lifted the lid on their incredibly unique lifestyle, revealing what it really means to inhabit the same body – while hitting back at strangers who bombard them with vile questions about their lives.
As conjoined twins, Carmen and Lupita Andrade, 23, are as close as two sisters can be, and they recently opened up about that bond during a candid Q&A video shared on their social media accounts .
The twins, who moved to the United States from Mexico when they were two and now live in Connecticut, rrevealed the questions they are most frequently asked in a video posted on TikTok.
“We’re going to do an FAQ, because some of you can’t shut up,” Lupita said in the clip, which has been viewed more than 9.8 million times.
The women, who share organs and limbs below the waist, then answer questions their curious followers desperately want to know.
Conjoined twins Carmen (right) and Lupita Andrade, 23, are as close as two sisters can be – and now share their honest answers to frequently asked questions about their lives.
The twins, who moved to the United States from Mexico when they were two and now live in Connecticut, revealed the questions they are frequently asked in a video posted to TikTok.
When they were born, doctors told their parents they would likely only live a few days – but they defied the odds and are now thriving – but share some unusual effects from sharing body parts.
“If one of us is tired, we don’t both need to be tired because we have two separate brains,” Carmen begins the FAQ.
“Yes, one of us can be awake and the other can be asleep because, again, brains are different. We are two distinct people,” she stressed.
Lupita also dispels any theories that they could control each other’s limbs.
“No, we can’t control everyone’s limbs or halves,” she said.
“Yes, I can drive,” Carmen cut in. “I have a right foot so I drive.”
They added that they share a bloodstream, so getting drunk affects them both, but they feel full at different rates because they have two stomachs.
“We are still two different people,” Carmen reminded her followers. “So we have two separate IDs, ID numbers, Social Security numbers and everything else.”
Carmen then discusses some of the more confrontational and brutal messages they receive, including what will happen if one of them dies.
The women, who share organs and limbs below the waist, then answer questions their curious followers desperately want to know.
Carmen has been dating her boyfriend Daniel for three years and reminded her followers that he only dates her, not Lupita as well.
Carmen said Daniel and Lupita, who is asexual, are good friends, revealing that they often stay up late at night chatting after she goes to bed.
“We share a common bloodstream, so eventually sepsis will occur and obviously within a few hours or a few days the other will die,” she explained. “But we’re not dead, so why always ask us that?”
Another question they are also frequently asked concerns the legal consequences if one of the women commits a crime.
“I’ve never gone through this process, so how could we have this kind of knowledge? » Carmen answered the dark question.
Carmen also touched on an oft-discussed topic: relationships and sex, as she and Lupita share a reproductive system.
For example, she explained that they both have endometriosis and experience pelvic pain.
“So you do the math on your weird and inappropriate questions about sex,” she joked.
Carmen has been dating her boyfriend Daniel for three years and reminded his followers that he only dates Carmen, not Luptia as well.
She previously revealed to Today that she met him on the dating app Hinge in 2020.
“I never tried to hide the fact that I’m a conjoined twin, which means I got a lot of messages from guys with fetishes,” Carmen explained, adding that she knew “right away” that Daniel was different from the other men she had had. talk to.
“He didn’t ask about my condition,” she said. “I suffer from social anxiety and ended up canceling appointments at the last minute, but I felt calm along the way.”
The twins are very open about their history on social media, and although they sometimes receive “nasty comments”, Carmen insisted that it hasn’t brought them down.
When they were born, doctors told their parents they would likely only live a few days, but they defied the odds and are now thriving.
She also added that Daniel and Lupita, who is asexual, are good friends.
“It’s funny because I stay up later than Lupita, but when Daniel sleeps, I fall asleep quickly – and he stays up to talk with her,” Carmen explained.
The twins also talked about the possibility of starting a family one day, revealing that they couldn’t have children.
“We can’t have children, we don’t want children and my partner feels the same way,” Carmen explained.
They also told the outlet that because they “share” so many “internal structures,” separation surgery is far too risky for them — but don’t get tired of each other, even though they’re together every second of the day.
“Sometimes at the end of the day we’re just exhausted and we don’t want to talk. That’s when we will use different devices and do our own work,” she said.
“I have my laptop to do my homework, and Lupita puts on headphones and listens to music or uses her phone. We’ve been Siamese all our lives, so it’s not like we lack our independence. That’s all we’ve ever known, isn’t it?
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