{"id":35458,"date":"2025-11-04T23:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:26:17","slug":"formerly-conjoined-twin-sisters-ximena-and-scarlett-in-corpus-christi-defy-odds-compete-in-texas-cheerleading-competition-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/35458\/","title":{"rendered":"Formerly conjoined twin sisters Ximena and Scarlett in Corpus Christi defy odds, compete in Texas cheerleading competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Two sisters once given only a slim chance to walk after birth are now thriving with the help of some amazing doctors and some very generous people in their community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Since birth, Ximena and Scarlett have defied the odds. In 2016, they were born conjoined at the pelvis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Their separation required a groundbreaking 12-hour separation surgery at a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Doctors said they may never walk again. Now, nearly ten years later, the girls are doing a lot more than walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The sisters are cheerleading in a statewide competition.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sisters once given a slim chance to walk after birth are now thriving in Texas.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/18111854_110425-wls-conjoined-twins-n1-vid.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sisters once given a slim chance to walk after birth are now thriving in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Their routine tells the story of their lives, from the music to the final pose, a reference to their very beginnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After the surgery, the family lived at a Ronald McDonald house for more than a year as the girls recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to forget this. The people here were always with us. When we cried, they cried with us. We never felt alone,&#8221; mother Sylvia Hernandez said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/18111954_conjoined-twins-CLEAN-TN-img.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two sisters once given only a slim chance to walk after birth are now thriving with the help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22011,155,157,156],"class_list":["post-35458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-22011","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}