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Yvette and Yvonne McCarther

Yvette and Yvonne McCarther

Yvette and Yvonne McCarther were conjoined twins and singers.

Medical condition

The sisters were craniopagus twins, joined at the head. They had separate personalities, brains and other organs, but shared a circulatory system.

Life

When Yvonne and Yvette McCarther were born in 1949, the doctors said they would probably never walk, they would probably be mentally retarded, and they probably ought to be institutionalized. They were wrong; the girls weren't slow, mentally or physically. They did learn to walk, side by side, their bowed heads forming an ungainly arch, but that did not stop them from keeping up a fast pace

As children they spent two years as a circus attraction to help pay hospital bills. In the 1970's they sang with gospel music groups. In 1987, they enrolled in the nursing program at Compton Community College and were scheduled to graduate in the spring of 1993. They never got their diplomas. The sisters were found dead in their home in January that year, apparently victims of heart failure.