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Clements twins
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Ava Marie and Leah Rose Clements

(2010-07-07) July 7, 2010 (age 13)
Website www.theclementstwins.com

Ava Marie Clements and Leah Rose Clements [1] (born July 7, 2010), known as the Clements twins, are American models and social media personalities who are identical twins. When the twins were seven years old, their parents signed with two modelling agencies. [2] Several news outlets have referred to them as "the most beautiful twins in the world", [3] By May 2023, they had amassed nearly 2 million followers on Instagram. [4]

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Personal lives

Ava Marie and Leah Rose Clements were born on July 7, 2010 [5] to Kevin Clements, a school swim coach, and Jaqi Clements. They have one sibling. [3] They are from Orange County, California. [6]

Kevin was diagnosed with cancer in 2019. The twins used their Instagram account to help raise funds and find a donor for his bone marrow transplant. [3] [6]

Career

Kevin and Jaqi wanted to start the twins in modeling when the twins were six months old, but held off on this plan due to the amount of time needed to make this commitment, [1] until the twins turned seven. At the time, the Clements' neighbor wanted models to help advertise a newly opened children's boutique. The twins posed for pictures together, and Jaqi sent the images to contacts she had collected from her first attempt to get the twins a modeling career. She met with various modeling agencies, and eventually signed contracts with two agencies: one in Orange County, California and another in Los Angeles. [7] A year after starting their modeling careers, the twins had gained more than half a million followers on Instagram. [8] The number grew to 1.5 million by December 2019, [1] and nearly 2 million by August 2023. [4]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation</span> Medical procedure to replace blood or immune stem cells

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cell therapy</span> Therapy in which cellular material is injected into a patient

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Stem-cell therapy uses stem cells to treat or prevent a disease or condition. As of 2016, the only established therapy using stem cells is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This usually takes the form of a bone marrow transplantation, but the cells can also be derived from umbilical cord blood. Research is underway to develop various sources for stem cells as well as to apply stem-cell treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.

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Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei, abbreviated as DKMS, is an international nonprofit bone marrow donor center based in Tübingen, Germany, with entities in Chile, India, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. DKMS works in the areas of blood cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and raises awareness of the need for donors for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation which people with blood cancers need for treatment as well as helping people sign up to their national bone marrow registries. Over the years, DKMS has expanded beyond Germany.

The World Transplant Games (WTG) are an international multi-sport event, occurring every two years, organized by the World Transplant Games Federation (WTGF). The Games promote amateur sport amongst organ transplant recipients, living donors and donor families.

Amal Bishara is an Israeli Arab doctor, and the director of Bone Marrow Registry Outreach, Hadassah Medical Center, which is associated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. There she runs the only bone marrow transplant registry in the world for unrelated Arab donors. Dr. Amal has published and presented internationally on her research into immunogenetics. She serves on the Accreditation Committee of the European Federation for Immunogenetics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">DATRI</span> Nonprofit organization for blood stem cell donation in India

DATRI is a not-for-profit organization registered in 2009 as a Section 8 company under Government of India. DATRI is one of the largest unrelated blood stem cell donors registry in India, that helps patients with blood cancer and other fatal blood disorders to find a HLA matched Blood Stem Cell donor. Blood stem cell transplant is a chance of cure for patients with blood cancer and other severe blood disorders. As of January 2023, DATRI has more than 5 lakhs voluntary donors registered and it has facilitated 1074 plus transplants worldwide. DATRI operates across India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shimon Slavin</span> Israeli professor of medicine

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  1. 1 2 3 "Meet the Clements twins -- the 'most beautiful twins in the world'". Yahoo! Finance . December 24, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Most Beautiful Twins in the World. Then & Now". What's Good?. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Keating, Caitlin (December 24, 2019). "9-Year-Old Instagram Stars Ask Fans to Help Find Bone Marrow Transplant to Save Their Dad's Life". People . Archived from the original on August 12, 2023. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  4. 1 2 Adeaga, Favour; Wangare, Jackline (May 16, 2023). "Meet the most beautiful twins in the world: Ava Marie and Leah Rose Clements". Yen.com.gh. Archived from the original on August 12, 2023. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  5. ↑ Clements twins [@clementstwins] (July 7, 2021). "11 today 🎉🎂" . Retrieved June 26, 2022– via Instagram.
  6. 1 2 "Clements Twins Search on Social Media for Dad's Bone Marrow Donor as He Battles Cancer". Inside Edition . December 11, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  7. ↑ Clements, Jaqi (October 10, 2017). "The CrAzY, FUN, not always easy but at least we have each other... Journey of The Clements Twins". TheClementsTwins.com. Archived from the original on December 31, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  8. ↑ Armstrong, Harriet (June 22, 2018). "'The most beautiful girls in the world' strike again". 9Honey . Retrieved August 12, 2023.
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