New marriage alert!
Carmen Andrade, known for her viral videos about life as a conjoined twin, revealed that she quietly married her longtime boyfriend, Daniel McCormack, during an intimate ceremony in Connecticut.
“We eloped in October with our families,” Carmen told TODAY on Thursday.
The couple confessed that they had a small ceremony on the historic Lover’s Leap Bridge over the Housatonic River in New Milford, Conn.
Carmen, the right-sided conjoined twin of her sister Lupita, doesn’t “regret” wearing a formal emerald green dress with sparkly sequins for the nuptials, which occurred in the same month of their fifth anniversary.
“I did not wear white,” Carmen said. “Don’t regret it. I don’t like white. That’s not my thing.”
McCormack, 28, wore a dark suit, an emerald green bow tie and a sunflower boutonniere to match Carmen’s colorful bouquet.
Carmen also shared her life update last month in a YouTube video titled, “Overdue Update!”
“We should probably also address something else pretty big,” Carmen shared at the end of the YouTube video. “I did get married.”
Carmen flashed her left hand, which featured a wedding ring, at the camera.
“I did not,” Lupita immediately quipped afterward.
The influencer joked that her husband only married her, not Lupita, who identifies as asexual and aromantic.
“I don’t want to get married,” Lupita explained during the announcement video.
The couple met on the dating app Hinge in October 2020 after she received “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 told the outlet. “I have social anxiety, and I’ve ended up canceling dates at the last minute, but I felt calm on the way there.”
Carmen said they were not sexually intimate with each other and have a bond that’s more of a “close friendship,” according to a 2022 interview with Jubilee.
The 23-year-old twins, who were born in Mexico but grew up in Connecticut, share a pelvis, a reproductive system, a liver and a bloodstream.
The sisters do not have the same heart or stomach, despite sharing other parts of their digestive system, per their Jubilee interview.
Each twin controls one leg, which took “17 years” to learn how to coordinate.
The sisters appeared on the TLC show, “Conjoined Twins: Inseparable,” which aired in 2020. The episode followed the young twins’ fight for their independence as they prepared for college.
In the YouTube video, Carmen shared that she is no longer pursuing a career as a veterinary technician and will not be “getting a degree.”
The conjoined twins said they plan to focus on their YouTube channel, including posting sketches that Lupita writes.
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