Billy Corgan has revealed a really weird coincidence: the latest female bassist to join Smashing Pumpkins may have a history with the band -- she says she was one of the two young girls featured on the cover of the group's 1993 album "Siamese Dream." Nicole Fiorentino evidently just broke the news to the singer/guitarist, and he tweeted it to fans last night. "She said she didn't want us to know because she thought maybe we wouldn't let her be in the band," he wrote.

This revelation is especially curious since in 2007 Corgan was actively looking for the pair of kids who played Siamese twins on the cover: "In a bit of a fun story, The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for the young girls that adorned the album cover of their record, SIAMESE DREAM. They have most definitely aged to their teens at this point, and are no longer conjoined. If anyone has any information on how to find the girls, please email web@smashingpumpkins.com." Corgan even sought info on the duo on...sage board.

So did Billy's '07 search really turn up nil, was he hoarding the info for just the right moment, or is this a fun long weekend publicity stunt? We'll have to vote for option C. If Fiorentino was one of the girls in the photo, it had to have been a pretty vintage shot -- since she's 31 years old now (she turns 32 in April), she was 14 when "Dream" was released in July '93. Check out the photos and judge for yourself!

Update: Because so many readers appear to be confused, we'll point out that the girls on the cover weren't really conjoined twins -- a shot on the album's back cover shows them separated, standing next to each other. Melodie McDaniel is credited as the album's photographer in its liner notes, and one of her assistants tells Rolling Stone he's fairly certain the photograph was shot specifically for the cover. McDaniel earned her photography degree in 1992, so it's not likely she took this photo seven years prior to that, when Fiorentino would have been around seven years old.