They forced Chang and Eng to have separate households: ultimately leading to the brothers splitting their time between their estranged wive-sisters. Our voyeuristic instincts and obsession with oddities left little to the imagination on how the four of them procreated but they certainly had it down, fathering a few shy of two dozen children between them. Chang and Eng got along quite well, but unfortunately, the sisters they married did not. They otherwise had all their own parts and lived relatively normal lives… all things considered.Ĭhang and Eng went on to marry a pair of physically normal sisters, Adelaide and Sarah Yates, respectively. Notwithstanding the obvious challenges of being joined at the hip, almost quite literally-technically they were joined at the sternum-they also shared inoperable, connected livers. and eventually became slave-owners (gulp). Many might remember the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese twins born in 1811 who hailed from Siam but moved to the U.S.
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