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Sanrio Insists Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat
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Hello Kitty turns 50 soon - but did you know she’s not a cat?
According to the Director of Retail Business Development at Sanrio, Hello Kitty’s flagship company, “Hello Kitty is not a cat. She has a mom and dad, and a twin sister Mimmy who’s also her bestfriend. She enjoys baking cookies and making new friends!”
Fact #1 is Hello Kitty Is NOT a cat, but a little girl originally from London! 🎀 pic.twitter.com/YF7LOvLjKC
- TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 18, 2024
She weighs three apples and she’s five apples tall. She has a boyfriend, Dear Daniel, and hundreds of other friends!
In a shocking new to many, Hello Kitty isn’t even her real name! Though her name has been ubiquitous for five decades, the Hello Kitty character remains something of a enigma. For example, did you know her full name is actually Kitty White? And that she was born in London, England? “She’s actually a little girl born and raised in the suburbs of London.”, says Sanrio’s figurehead.
In 2015, Hello Kitty became the subject of a North American museum exhibition for the first time when a retrospective called “Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty,” premiered at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit made headlines and caused a few online meltdowns after its curator, Christine R. Yano, revealed that the Hello Kitty character was, in fact, a little girl and not a cat.
Yano, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii told the Los Angeles Times that the Sanrio company “very firmly” corrected her on the matter just before the exhibit opened.
“That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat,” said Yano. “She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”
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Hello Kitty turns 50 soon - but did you know she’s not a cat?
According to the Director of Retail Business Development at Sanrio, Hello Kitty’s flagship company, “Hello Kitty is not a cat. She has a mom and dad, and a twin sister Mimmy who’s also her bestfriend. She enjoys baking cookies and making new friends!”
Fact #1 is Hello Kitty Is NOT a cat, but a little girl originally from London! 🎀 pic.twitter.com/YF7LOvLjKC
- TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 18, 2024
She weighs three apples and she’s five apples tall. She has a boyfriend, Dear Daniel, and hundreds of other friends!
In a shocking new to many, Hello Kitty isn’t even her real name! Though her name has been ubiquitous for five decades, the Hello Kitty character remains something of a enigma. For example, did you know her full name is actually Kitty White? And that she was born in London, England? “She’s actually a little girl born and raised in the suburbs of London.”, says Sanrio’s figurehead.
In 2015, Hello Kitty became the subject of a North American museum exhibition for the first time when a retrospective called “Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty,” premiered at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit made headlines and caused a few online meltdowns after its curator, Christine R. Yano, revealed that the Hello Kitty character was, in fact, a little girl and not a cat.
Yano, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii told the Los Angeles Times that the Sanrio company “very firmly” corrected her on the matter just before the exhibit opened.
“That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat,” said Yano. “She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”
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