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The Untold Truth Of The Conjoined Hilton Sisters

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We don't do sideshows anymore, because we have the internet now. One of the saddest cases of a circus sideshow act was that of the Hilton sisters - conjoined twins who were beautiful, talented, exploited, and eventually forgotten. This is the untold truth of the conjoined Hilton sisters.

Daisy and Violet Hilton were pygopagus twins, which means they were back-to-back. The sisters shared a circulatory system, but otherwise had their own separate internal organs. Still, doctors elected not to try and separate them.

Daisy and Violet's biological mother viewed them as punishment for her out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and she gave them to her employer, Mary Hilton, in exchange for money. As far as Hilton was concerned, she owned the twins from that moment forward. Hilton put them on display in the back room of her tavern, collecting admission fees and selling postcards with their picture as souvenirs.

In 1915 Hilton tried to bring them to the United States. At first, U.S. officials were reluctant to admit them, but Hilton managed to work up the local media to the point where authorities felt pressured to let the girls in the country. They eventually ended up in San Francisco, where they became the wards of Hilton's biological daughter Edith and her partner, a balloon salesman with the ridiculous name Myer Myers.

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Their mother sold them | 0:19
They were talented performers | 1:19
They never saw their paychecks | 1:43
Legal troubles lead to freedom | 2:49
On to Hollywood | 4:02
Their love lives weren't great | 4:44
Trying to make it work | 5:37
The End | 6:34

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