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Lucy and Anna are so obsessed with being identical that they track their food intake, too. “We’ve been eating the exact same thing, the same size quantity of our foods for about 10 years now,” says Anna.
“I want my body to look like hers, she wants her body to look like mine,” explains Lucy. “We don’t want to weigh differently.”
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It doesn’t stop there. They share a job, car, Facebook account, phones, and even a boyfriend.
Um…is that healthy?
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Nope. “It is not healthy to want to be someone else—even if you are genetically identical,” says licensed clinical psychologist Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D. “A differentiated identity and sense of self is a healthy benchmark.”
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The obsession with sameness may be the result of their upbringing, says Durvasula. Some twins may come from families where they are treated too alike, leaving each twin desperately wanting to be his or her own person; others may feel super close to their twin and want to celebrate those similarities, she says.
But Durvasula stresses that it’s pretty unusual for twins to want to be the exact same person. “Just knowing what we know about human identity development, it is uncommon for them to want to be the same person—but they may end up being quite similar by dint of their genetics,” she says.
So yeah, it’s pretty weird.