The Twins That Were Cut In Half | BORN DIFFERENT

when people first see our story they'd like to ask a lot of questions right the most common asked question was do you remember being joined [Music] to get around we do different things for different places I think we adapted fully because we didn't ever have two legs yeah so we don't have anything to run off of we feel like we're we're the same as everybody else there's just a few things that are a little different the best thing about having one leg it just like we only have to paint lines out of toenails so that's really nice yeah mostly little kids stare but when adults stare at us we kind of like or like it's strange because they should and they should they should know not to stare it's rare to be a conjoined twin the doctor said that we weren't gonna live past 24 hours but after we passed that they said that we would wouldn't live past eight sharing one kidney for the both of us so that's why we got separated the feeling of being attached to someone else is weird mii-chan Gigi's there's no media she has an NJ to because she doesn't eat very well [Music] it wasn't always just cut and dried that we were gonna separate them and that's all that there was to it there's so much that goes into a huge decision like that you have to make sure that it's the right thing for that we went to a lot of different doctors psychologists anything that I could take them to just to make sure that they were ready and it wouldn't harm them we just called it cut a part day we didn't like understand really know what it meant [Music] when we got separated Kendra got the kidney and then I went on dialysis for nine months until my mom donated her kidney and then ten years after I got that kidney it rejected and I went on to house she was on dialysis for two and a half years and so she would go three hours three times a day so it ended up being about four hours three times a week she just took it in stride she had friends on dialysis that had passed away and she had to deal with the loss of her friends which was really hard I'm just amazed at how well she she did it I don't think I could do it when I get up in the morning I get ready for school and then we get picked up by our friend then we'd go to school high school has been good so far like people are really nice it's just harder if classes are far apart but other than that it's fun Kendra's more outgoing if you can already tell yeah I'm Way more outgoing than she is we don't think we look like yeah I don't even though we're identical twins we've never been bullied at school or anything we're lucky yeah we're lucky some people aren't aren't as lucky with that they came in fairly timid fairly weak in some areas but they told me that their goal is to be able to walk on crutches in the school by the end of the year gonna go out we're gonna go try to go up his up the stairs and down the stairs okay and then we're gonna come back and get you last week Kendra for the first time walked on her crutches here at school she just was beaming a few weeks before that Malia walked up the stairs for the first time here at school on her crutches so they're just getting stronger all the time they're so determined 26 27 28 29 30 excellent I think that they've just taught me so much about going through trials and accepting trials with grace and bravery and I don't know that I could ever go through what they've gone through I've had the chance to get to know them and I'm so proud of all that they've accomplished Emily and I make dinner every night so we switch off so one of us will make dinner and then other one do like homework or like whatever if we don't have homework we like to film YouTube videos with this camera we just got it we just set up down here and we put this couch here and then we put our camera on a stand and then so on our YouTube channel we just do like different funny videos and like we did a video of our story we were only three months when my parents talked to us about separating less and I don't think we really understood what it meant well we understood what it meant but we did understand the risks of it because we were so young we didn't know what dying was we like doing fun stuff too we like making the videos just like to make people positive I guess we like making them because we're weird do we like sharing our weirdness I think social media has helped improve their confidence give something to drive them something that they're really interested in and they love coming to show us mom look what this person said and they were so excited that we responded to them and I'm so glad that they had that in their life the self-esteem that they have blows me away lots of people could learn a lot of things from them we are happy that our parents chose to

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Id: vfyMRx2nNJ8

Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2019