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Katie Holton (24 August 1988 – 4 April 1992) and Eilish Holton (born 24 August 1988) were a pair of dicephalic parapagus twins. In other words, the two were conjoined twins, each of whom had a separate head, but whose bodies were joined.

Biography
Born joined at the hip and the leg, both girls initially seemed healthy, but complications with Katie's heart led to the need for separation. They gained international prominence after an operation to separate them, performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital on 1 April 1992, was successful, but further complications resulted in Katie's death four days later. Both during and after the operation, documentaries were filmed about the two, spurring debate and examination over the practice, as well as feminist thought regarding metaphysics and materialism.

Eilish, however, recovered, with difficulty perhaps attributable to the loss of Katie, and later met with Abby and Brittany Hensel, another pair of conjoined twins.