Against all odds: conjoined twins turn 50

The world's oldest living conjoined twins reached their 50th birthday today.

According to The Sun (https://bit.ly/nhVjvk), George and Lori Schappell, who are joined at the head, are celebrating their special day with a landmark trip to London.

Remarkably, the twins are able to live very different and separate lives, with Lori having had relationships and George, who was born Dori and later changed her name to Reba — deciding to live life as a man.

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According to The Sun, while Lori, who is 5 feet, 1 inch, was born able-bodied, 4-foot-4-inch George suffers from spina bifida, which has caused severe mobility problems.

As George cannot walk, he sits in a wheelchair-type stool which Lori pushes so the two can move together.

The twins, from Pennsylvania, were born sharing 30 percent of their frontal lobe brain tissue and critical blood vessels, meaning they cannot be separated.

Although the pair are both single, Lori has dated men.

Throughout the 1990s, George had a successful music career as singer Reba Schappell and won an LA Music Award for Best New Country Artist.

The famous pair have been the subject of television documentaries, appeared on talk shows and even made a cameo appearance on the TV drama series “Nip/Tuck.”

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