If you had been under a literal and figurative microscope your whole life, it’d be easy to understand why conjoined twins Carmen and Lupita Andrade kept Carmen’s marriage to longtime boyfriend Daniel McCormack, under wraps for as long as possible.
In an exclusive interview with People, the couple and sister confirmed that a ceremony happened in 2024. The pair met on dating app Hinge in 2020 after Lupita encouraged her sister to go for him.
“She’s not really good at choosing guys, and I was like, ‘You should choose that guy. He seems harmless,’” she playfully recalled. “Now they’ve been together for almost five years.”
Why him above all others? “He asked about our dog,” Lupita simply stated. Carmen added, “Honestly, it was the fact that he asked about my dog, more than anything.”
For Daniel, it was pretty simple, too. “Just being a genuine person, having a funny personality. And I mean, look at her, she’s adorable. I love my wife,” he said of falling for Carmen. “We definitely shared that deep connection of loving animals.”
Keeping Some Things Private
While the three of them are fairly candid about their lives and interconnected relationships, the one boundary they have is they will not discuss their sex lives.
“I don’t understand why people need to know about my private parts in order [to] humanize us,” Carmen said.
“People are obsessed with sex, you know? And it is just like, frankly, it’s none of your f—ing business,” added Daniel.
While Lupita said in the interview that she does wear headphones and looks at her phone to give the couple privacy for intimate conversations, according to Today, she hates it when people question her relationship with her brother-in-law. “I don’t like being asked if I am ever going to love [Daniel],” she says. “I love him as a brother. That’s about it.”
That isn’t to say Daniel and Carmen do not do their best to respect Lupita’s privacy and individuality, too. If her sister isn’t OK with affection or anything, the couple simply just respect it.
“I think there’s a certain societal expectation that there needs to be affection the entire time within a relationship,” Carmen noted. “All we do is joke around a lot of the time.”
Though the twins suffer from some medical issues — they both have endometriosis that is tough to take care of due to their conjoining situation — for the most part, they are functioning well and are healthy. In fact, they’ve surpassed every doctor’s life expectancy limitations.
“We’ve always been underestimated,” Carmen told People.
