By Mohamed Conjoined twin Carmen Andrade is tired of people asking questions about her sex life — or how it affects her sister, Lupita.
The twins, 25, have taken multiple opportunities to answer questions from curious fans about how they operate as two separate people despite sharing a circulatory, digestive and reproductive system. But Carmen sees no need for the questions to get too personal.
“I don’t understand why people need to know about my private parts in order [to] humanize us,” she told People in a story published Thursday, September 18.
She added that people often assume her marriage to husband Daniel McCormack is “fragile,” explaining that some insist he must be “cheating on me on the side” or that he is “just kind of here for the bag.” (“I’ve got no money,” she joked.)
The questions bother Lupita as well, especially when it comes to her relationship with Daniel.
“I don’t like being asked if I am ever going to love [Daniel],” she said. “I love him as a brother. That’s about it.”
Daniel, 28, isn’t immune from the prying questions, either.
“People are obsessed with sex, you know?” he said. “And it is just like, frankly, it’s none of your f***ing business.”
Daniel and Carmen met on the dating app Hinge in 2020 and married in a small ceremony with just their two families four years later on Lover’s Leap Bridge in New Milford, Connecticut.
“It was pretty. It was autumn, which made it even prettier,” she recalled in a YouTube video posted in July. “I did not wear white [and] I don’t regret it. I don’t like white, but that’s just my thing.”
She opened up in a 2023 story for Today.com about what attracted her to her now-husband.
“I never tried to hide the fact that I’m a conjoined twin, which meant 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.”
She also elaborated on the dynamic between her, Lupita and Daniel.
“It’s funny because I stay up later than Lupita, but when Daniel sleeps over, I fall asleep quickly — and he stays up talking with her,” she said. “Sometimes I feel bad because I want to spend so much time with Daniel. So we try to come up with compromises. Like, [Lupita] will choose where we go out to dinner, or what activity we’re going to do.”
