Official records from Ramsey County, Minnesota, confirm that when Abigail Lauren Hensel married Joshua Bowling on November 13, 2021, at the Jerome Event Center in Delano, her conjoined twin sister Brittany Hensel was not listed among the legal witnesses on the marriage certificate. The document, first made public through reporting by TMZ in early April 2024 after the marriage itself had already been confirmed by Today in late March of that year, lists only two witnesses: the twins’ sister Morgan Hensel and an individual recorded as Cosmo Naut. The latter name has been widely discussed as either a playful family reference or possibly a pet, rather than a conventional human attendee. Reverend Sid A.

Veenstra officiated the private ceremony. Following the wedding, Abby legally changed her surname from Hensel to Bowling, becoming Abigail Lauren Bowling on subsequent records. Although Brittany was physically present at the ceremony, as she must be given the sisters’ dicephalic parapagus anatomy in which they share a single torso, bloodstream, and all organs below the waist, Minnesota law requires only that a marriage be solemnized in the presence of at least two witnesses who are sixteen years of age or older. The certificate therefore needed only the signatures of those two designated witnesses, and the couple and their family chose Morgan and Cosmo Naut rather than Brittany.

The wedding had remained largely private until public marriage records surfaced in March 2024, at which point social media users located pH๏τos and videos, including a first dance set to Matt Simons’ “Lose Control.” Abby and Brittany responded at the time with a short TikTok noting that the internet was extra loud that day and that they had always been around. Josh Bowling, a former U.S. Army health specialist who served deployments in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan before becoming a nurse, has a daughter, Isabella, from a prior marriage that ended in divorce.

The twins continue to work as fifth-grade teachers in Minnesota and have maintained a low public profile since their 2012 TLC series ended. In the years after the marriage became known, limited pH๏τos from the wedding day were shared, showing the sisters in a white lace gown beside Bowling. By mid-to-late 2025, sightings of the twins with a newborn baby in Minnesota prompted renewed speculation, but Bowling stated that certain TikTok accounts claiming to represent the family were not authentic and that no official confirmation regarding a baby had been issued. The omission of Brittany’s name from the witness list has remained one of the most discussed details of the certificate, highlighting both the legal formality of the marriage and the practical realities of the sisters’ shared physical existence.