This is the life of 22-year-old Mexican conjoined twins: Carmen and Lupita tell what their daily lives are like, strapped to the torso, one has a boyfriend and the other sister declares herself asexual

Carmen and Lupita Andrade are conjoined twins who were born 22 years ago in Mexico. Today they live in Connecticut, United States. They try to carry out their professional studies, work and live their lives like most people, despite their condition.

Carmen is the most outgoing; Lupita, the funniest. The first has a boyfriend named Daniel. The young women, united in the torso, share the pelvis, reproductive system, liver, bloodstream and many internal structures, El Tiempo reported.

Outside the medical field, they are also united by a love of movies, the same clothes and exercises.

The operations to separate them were rejected due to the degree of complexity and risk they represented for them. The dream of a surgical procedure led his parents 21 years ago to move to American countries.

Over the years, finding coordination and balance with one leg (each) was a major challenge that they managed to overcome over time, La Vanguardia reported.

The day to day of the conjoined twins

The Colombian publication shared that “Carmen is studying at university to become a vet assistant and Lupita hopes to work in the same field as a technician.”

Lupita harbors the idea of ​​becoming a comedy writer. “I almost always talk, but she’s very funny,” Carmen said.

They analyze and describe: “At the end of the day, we are exhausted and do not want to talk.”

“We’ve been together all our lives, so it’s not like we lack our independence. It’s all we’ve ever known, isn’t it?” Carmen commented.

We’re not just conjoined twins, we’re human.

Carmen Andrade today

love knocked on the door

Carmen fell in love with Daniel, a boy she said, “I knew from the start that I was different from the others because it didn’t start with a question about my condition.”

Lupita, on the other hand, openly declared herself asexual (a sexual orientation in which a person experiences little or no sexual attraction to another person), explains El Tiempo.

She does not interfere in her sister’s relationship with Daniel. “I know that’s important to her,” he said.

Both have faced comments, ridicule, and even fetish references.

Carmen met Daniel in October 2020 through Hinge, a dating app. For Today, he described their relationship as “stable, understanding and long-lasting.”

boundaries in the relationship

Contrary to what some people may think, that relationship is not three.

“We’re not that intimate and he (Daniel) is fine with that,” Carmen told the Ask Me Anything YouTube channel.

Semana pointed out that Carmen and Lupita have made the decision not to have sexual relations in their relationship so as not to affect Lupita’s life.

“Of course I wanted to be transparent about everything. It was a learning process for everyone. We had to have a discussion about which limits are okay and which aren’t.”

Carmen said that all three of them get along well.

“Sometimes I feel bad because I want to spend a lot of time with Daniel. So we try to compromise. Like (Lupita) choosing where to eat or what activity to do,” concluded Carmen.

According to what was reported to ‘Today’, Lupita and Daniel have a very good relationship, “so much so that when Carmen falls asleep, he keeps talking to his sister-in-law until dawn”.

Mexican conjoined twins also have a hormone blocker that prevents them from menstruating, El Tiempo published.

Their experiences take them to social networks, especially TikTok. La Vanguardia explained that the bond between these girls goes beyond the physical: “I can sense when Carmen is anxious or about to cry. It’s that same knot in the stomach,’ Lupita said.