Their sibling kinship brings the meaning of sisterhood to a whole other level!"
Take, for example, sisters Christina Manning and Jessica Dunagan.
Labeled the “Psychic Sisters” of “Extreme Sisters,“this duo is anything but ordinary.
But how did they learn they were different?
How deep does their connection go?
Jessica:I’ll go first.
So we actually were scouted from Bodega, the production company.
And so they contacted us.
Christina:We had a few videos.
Jessica:The one that they liked though…
So we’re spiritual and we’re psychics.
So we use energy to basically create our lives.
And we were really ill and we discovered that Reiki-charging our food actually gave us good health.
And then you’re putting that energy into the food before you consume it.
But it’s all about vibrations.
They liked the fact that we were spiritual.
There’s something different about them.
There’s something unique.”
And they reached out to us and then here we are.
I thought she was just a client.
Christina:So she had to really find us.
Christina:Well, it’s been our career since we were gosh, 18, 19 years old.
We grew up, our mom was a psychic.
And so we grew up in that world.
She had a shop.
And we were not about it.
We were like, “No, we’re not going to go down that same road.”
And the universe said, “No, yes you are.
Yes, you are.”
And so with our abilities, we’re actually intuitive together so we can feel each other’s energy.
So it’s like telepathy for each other, but then we also can see other people’s futures.
Jessica:And each other’s.
Christina:… And each other’s.
We like to butt into each other’s business a lot with our psychic abilities.
Jessica:She predicted my divorce.
I said, “No, you’re going to divorce next year.”
Jessica:And I was like, “No, no, I don’t want to know.
Don’t tell me that.”
So she predicted my divorce.
We predicted the outcomes of our relationships with other people.
We predicted our mom’s death.
I did predict my mom being sick with cancer.
She came into the house and was like, “Mom’s going to die of cancer soon.”
I’m like, “Okay.”
So it’s a unique gift that we’re blessed with and we love it.
Well, it’s a blessing and a curse.
Christina:Try being single and dating.
It makes it hard.
It makes it hard because I feel things.
Christina:So we help each other out.
Jessica:We have match-made people as well.
We can use our psychic [abilities] … We have done it.
We have success stories.
Christina:We have a lot of close friends that we’ve match-made.
Jessica:Gosh, I honestly think we were meant for this.
We forgot that the cameras were even there.
And they were just there to capture that.
Christina:So I definitely loved it.
They came at a very interesting time.
I will say that, as far as our sisterhood and our personal journey that we were in.
So it was fun.
Can you speak about that “interesting time”?
Jessica:Obviously she gets a new boyfriend.
So we get to experience that.
So we were always married at the same time and single at the same time.
This is the first time in our life where she’s remained single while I’ve had a relationship.
Jessica:The first time.
Christina:So we’re navigating it.
We’re navigating this all together.
We’re figuring it out all together.
Jessica:For the first time.
Christina:We’ve always been married at the same time.
Jessica:So our lives have always been the same.
Divorced at the same time, pregnant at the same time.
This is the first time I’ve been single without my sister.
Has that brought up any challenges?
Christina:So she wants to butt into my relationship.
And that created a lot of challenges.
And I had to share my time with my boyfriend and my sister.
So that created some challenges.
Plus my boyfriend, it was a new experience for him.
He had never dated a twin.
I was his first relationship.
Plus it’s with a twin and you guys are this close.
Jessica:Our divorces.
I would say our divorces.
Christina:We were almost kind of naive to it.
We didn’t know any different.
People always ask what it’s like to be a twin or be so close.
And we don’t know any [different].
Everyone told us how extreme we were.
“This isn’t normal, you guys.”
Christina:You just don’t understand us.
Jessica:But it’s our normal.
So to me, it’s normal.
That’s when I thought, “We need to make a new strategy.”
Jessica:She wanted to make new strategies.
What are the things that make you guys different?
And do those differences ever create tension or interesting moments in your relationship?
It’s always been the twins, the twins, us, us, us.
I’m trying to create who [I am] without her.
And that’s where we’re different because she is opposite of me.
She thinks we should really embrace this and be the same all the time.
And if you haven’t noticed, I have my hair longer.
I would love to cut my hair short.
I think short hair is adorable, but I don’t want to look just like her.
There she goes, “Why not?”
Jessica:It’s cool.
Jessica:Well, I think that it’s a blessing to be a twin.
It’s a unique experience that I think people envy, to be honest.
Not everybody, but I want to embrace it.
I want to embrace it and take it for all it is.
I have someone that shares the same DNA as me.
How cool is that?
Let’s look alike, let’s dress alike.
She won’t dress alike.
She won’t do it.
We did for so many years.
Christina:We should have been triplets and then they could have done their own thing.
Christina:Oh my gosh, everybody.
Jessica:Our own mother found it hard.
It’s just you two, you guys are each other’s everything.
And it’s like, how do people get into that and become a part of that?”
So that’ll be interesting to see that dynamic as well in the show.
I think it’s different.
People just don’t get it.
Our own mom, she thought it was hard.
So our brother, everybody.
What’s your favorite memory together, a twin moment?
For me, that’s my favorite, doing that together.
Christina:I think just doing the show has been a huge memory for me.
Even doing our meditation in the woods, just little things like that.
Is there anything that you regret about your relationship?
Things you had to give up?
Moments you wish you could take back?
And we just get through it, we pick up.
You know what it is.
It’s having somebody in your life that you are 150% raw, real, and open with.
She knows every single thing about me.
Is they’re like, “No, no, no, no.
I need to be that person.
I need to be that person that you share all those intimate details with.”
Jessica:I also don’t have any regrets.
Christina:I thought you would have regrets.
Jessica:No, I don’t live in regrets.
I don’t live in regrets.
And so as long as I’m of love.
Now, do I regret how I’ve handled some situations.
Jessica:So I have a 5 and a 6-year-old.
They’re only 11 months apart.
Christina:And then I have a 5-year-old.
So we’ve both been pregnant two times.
I had a miscarriage with my first pregnancy.
So we would both have two children.
So I have one boy, who’s 5.
She’s got the girl who’s 5 and then she’s got the older boy.
Did you guys plan to get pregnant together or did it just happen?
Christina:It happened.
Jessica:No, we did not plan.
Christina:There’s nothing in our thoughts.
I don’t want to go through a pregnancy without her now.
I’ve gotten to used to having someone to complain with.
And eat fast food with.
How are your children in regards to your relationship?
Do they realize that their moms have a special relationship?
Jessica:They’re used to it.
They don’t know any different.
Christina:They’re best friends too.
They always want to play.
So they’re always together.
They’re best friends.
I don’t think they know any different.
Christina:I think … they think they have more love and it’s like they have two mommies.
Do you know if they share those same hopes that they’ll stay close with their cousins forever?
Christina:I think so.
All of our vacations we take together with the kids.
We’re planning a trip to Disneyland, we’ll take the kids.
So they’re just going to have all those memories as children together.
Christina:So there are times where I feel guilty that I only have one child.
He’s an only child, and I’m like, oh my gosh.
So he has a brother and sister.
I find it actually very liberating and free.
It’s very freeing to me because, even our psychic ability, we hid it.
We hid it from people.
So just opening it up and saying, “Hey, this is us.”
And I love that I was so raw and vulnerable because I feel like it’ll be relatable.
If I can help somebody understand.
You mentioned that your mother passed away.
How did she pass?
How have you been since then?
Jessica:Actually, it just became three years ago.
It was her three-year anniversary at the beginning of April.
And she had cancer.
She was told she only had weeks to live in that moment.
And she ended up living for three months.
So she’s a fighter.
And I’ve sucked that strength in, and I just remember that because she had cancer everywhere.
She wasn’t supposed to live even three months.
So we took care of her.
So she stayed with us and we took care of her.
So there was a lot of healing in it too that was done.
Jessica:That no matter what, when you have a sister bond, it’s unbreakable.
You get through everything together, the good and the bad.
I believe hopefully it will bring us closer.
I feel like it’s brought us closer in some ways.
So I don’t know.
We’re still on the journey.
Jessica:We’re still on the journey.
Christina:But we’re here.
We still made it through it.
Jessica:We made it through.
Christina:Some of it will be hard for us to watch, I’m sure.
But we made it through it, so.
What inspired you to write it?
Jessica:We’re big on manifesting.
It’s like our dreams have all came true through our mind.
And Reiki-charging our food is what changed our lives.
And we just wanted to share that with others.
And it completely changed our lives.
Christina:We just published it on the 1st of April.
So it just came out.
