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Apparently Hello Kitty isn’t a cat and fans are utterly baffled

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Hello Kitty isn’t what we thought… (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

If someone asked you to describe Hello Kitty, you’d likely tell them she was a cat.

She’s got whiskers, ears, and the clue is right there in the name… or is it?

Apparently not, because according to the people behind the cute character, she’s not a feline.

A video has been doing the rounds on TikTok which shows NBC journalist Savannah Sellers interviewing Jill Cook, an executive at Sanrio — the company behind the Japanese brand.

In the clip, Jill claims that Hello Kitty is not a cat, but a little girl who was ‘born and raised in the suburbs of London’.

She says: ‘She has a mum and dad and a twin sister Mimmy, who’s also her best friend. She enjoys baking cookies and making new friends.’

Jill adds that the little girl ‘weighs three apples and is five apples tall’. Hmmm…

The Sanrio website also confirms this to be the case and gives you some more info about the iconic character, including that her parents are called George and Mary, and she’s a Scorpio and has blood type A.

Hello Kitty also has her own pet cat — see there was a cat involved in this somewhere — Charmmy Kitty, who was a gift from her pops. Cute.

What a wild, wild world we live in.

Hello Kitty is actually a ‘little girl’ and she’s not from Japan. (Picture: Getty Images)

Naturally, social media users have been left feeling completely and utterly baffled by this discovery. 

One TikToker, @speechprof, asked fellow users: ‘Is Hello Kitty trying to gaslight us? She has whiskers and cat ears. She’s a cat. Am I in a fever dream right now?’

People in the comments shared similar sentiments, with @crazykittlady1074 saying: ‘She is a cat. I don’t care if Hello Kitty herself tells me she is not a cat. My inner child from the 80s says SHE IS A CAT.’

@ayamaoi wrote: ‘What is this woman trippin on, it’s a cat and it won’t change.’

While @chanasya._.marriott had other concerns, posting: ‘I thought Hello Kitty was Japanese, since when was London part of this?!’

And @pauneu.cgn added: ‘Five apples tall, but only weighs three apples? Even Hello Kitty is proposing unrealistic beauty standards to children.’

There’s a lot to take in here. We’re going to need some time to process…

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