Hilton siamese twins biography of rory

ByBecki Robins

We don't do sideshows anymore. No, we have the internet now, where we can gawk at things in the privacy of our own homes, so no one will ever know how depraved and insensitive we actually are.

But not so very long ago, people who were visibly different not only got gawked at in person, they were often put in circus tents so people could charge money for other people to come gawk at them. And the saddest truth about circus sideshow acts is that oftentimes, that was their only real prospect.

People who were visibly different were otherwise unemployable, and if they wanted to eat, sometimes joining a circus was the best option they had.

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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 Hilton sisters' tragic lives.