Carmen Andrade, a conjoined twin, has married her boyfriend, Daniel McCormack.
“We eloped in October with our families,” Carmen tells TODAY.com.
The couple, who met on the dating app Hinge in 2020, shared the news quietly at the end of a YouTube video titled “Overdue Update!”
Carmen Andrade, a conjoined twin, married her boyfriend, Daniel McCormack in October 2024.Courtesy Karen Muira
“We should probably also address something else pretty big,” Carmen, 25, said, smiling as she held up her left hand to the camera, the wedding ring clearly visible. “I did get married.”
“I did not,” Lupita, Carmen’s conjoined twin, noted, just to clear up any confusion.
McCormack, 28, then reintroduced himself to viewers with a new title: “The husband.”
“I got an upgrade,” he said, proudly.
Carmen tells TODAY they exchanged vows in front of close relatives on Lover’s Leap Bridge in New Milford, Connecticut.
The bride wore a floor-length emerald green gown to the autumn nuptials, while the groom looked dapper in a dark suit and a matching green bowtie.
“I did not wear white. Don’t regret it,” Carmen said. “I don’t like white.”
She then made an important point, anticipating questions once the news spread.
“Before anybody gets it twisted: We got married,” she said, pointing to herself and McCormack. Then, gesturing to herself, McCormack, and her conjoined twin sister, Lupita, she added, “but we did not get married.”
To this, Lupita quipped, “I don’t want to get married.”
When TODAY.com interviewed the women in 2023, Lupita revealed that she is asexual and experiences little or no sexual attraction to others.
“But I want Carmen to settle down,” she told TODAY.com. “I know that’s important to her.”
Carmen described feeling instantly at ease with McCormack. He was different from the other men who reached out to her on Hinge.
“I got a lot of messages from guys with fetishes. I knew right off the bat that Daniel was different from the others, because he didn’t lead with a question about my condition,” she said. “I have social anxiety, and I’ve ended up canceling dates at the last minute, but I felt calm on the way there.”
Carmen and Lupita are connected at the torso, sharing a pelvis and reproductive system. Each has two arms but only one leg between them.
While Carmen and McCormack love kids, they said don’t want any of their own, preferring instead to be dog parents.
“Lupita and I can’t get pregnant, we have endometriosis and we’re also on a hormone blocker that prevents us from menstruating,” Carmen explained.
The Andrade sisters use YouTube and other social media platforms to share their experiences and raise awareness about life as conjoined twins and the stigma they face.
“We do get some nasty comments. A lot of people aren’t used to people with disabilities setting boundaries or creating boundaries when it comes to their disability,” Carmen said. “We get a lot of questions about sex, and how we go to the bathroom and stuff like that. But you have to remember: We’re not just conjoined twins, we’re people.”
Conjoined twins are extremely rare, according to the Mayo Clinic, and conjoined twin marriages are not widely reported.
In 2021, TODAY.com was first to report that conjoined twin Abby Hensel married Josh Bowling, a nurse and United States Army veteran.
Abby and her sister Brittany starred in the TLC reality series “Abby and Brittany.”
