After establishing a prosperous showbiz career and being a part of the cult movie Freaks in 1932, the conjoined twins tragically passed away. As per medical reports, Conjoined twin live births are uncommon. In the UK, they occur on average once in 500,000 births.

As per Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, conjoined twin births may account for 1 out of every 30,000 to 200,000 live births globally. Two offspring linked in utero are known as conjoined twins. This can happen when two embryos fuse together in the early stages of development or when a single fertilized egg is only partially divided.

The National Institutes of Health reports that the overall survival rate for conjoined twins is only 7.5 percent, which is a dismal mortality rate. Nevertheless, 1908-born Daisy and Violet Hilton survived until 1969 in spite of the odds.

The two were taken in by a woman named Mary Hilton after their mother disowned them shortly after they were born in Brighton, connected at the hip. From the age of three, Mary took the girls on tour and gave them her last name. In an effort to earn some money, she allegedly would also show photos of the conjoined twins to customers at the bar she ran.

After Mary passed away, Daisy and Violet were bequeathed to her daughter Edith, who made sure the twins learned to dance and play instruments and kept all of their earnings.

Thankfully, they eventually managed to break the “contract” and regain control over their own life. The Hilton sisters acted in the film Chained for Life in 1952. Harry L. Fraser directed the exploitation movie, which combined elements of the twins’ actual lives with a number of vaudeville performances.

Took a detour to visit the grave of Daisy and Violet Hilton, British-born conjoined twins who rose to dizzying heights as world-famous performers, were swindled out of their earnings, and spent their twilight years working at a grocery store in Charlotte, North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/asAr6UllWs

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However, their manager left them in 1961, ending their time in the spotlight. The siblings worked in a neighborhood shop after their final public appearance at a drive-in in Charlotte, North Carolina, where they had little money.

Tragically, the sisters contracted the flu eight years later. Violet, who was compelled to stay close to her deceased sister until her own death at the age of 60, died two to four days after Daisy, who died shortly after becoming unwell.

Born #OnThisDay 1908, Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins. They toured the world and appeared in the 1932 film Freaks, directed by Tod Browning. pic.twitter.com/eVAOW5FM3Z

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Local historian Dirk Allman told WRAL: “One of them got the flu. One of them died and the other one may have lingered for three days. “Maybe one could have saved the other but they said, ‘We’ve been through so much, it’s time to go.'”

Doctors offered to separate them as modern medicine developed during their lifetimes, but Violet and Daisy refused the procedure. “Even back then, they could have been separated,” Charles Reid, their grocery store supervisor, told The Charlotte Observer. They told me, “Mr. Reid, we’ve been together our entire lives,” but they didn’t want to. We wish to avoid separation at all costs.

Take a glimpse at Daisy and Violet Hilton;