日本三麗鷗公司透漏,“Hello Kitty這個從點綴午餐盒和烤面包機到T恤和內衣的形象,一向被以為是只可愛的貓，但事實上卻不是如此，聽清楚了Hello Kitty并不是一只貓”。
那么究竟凱蒂是什么?
“粉紅全球化:Hello Kitty徒步穿越太平洋的作者克里斯汀·r·矢野對《洛杉磯時報》說所謂的凱蒂貓其實是一個人類的女孩(英國)。
“凱蒂貓不是貓，她是一個卡通人物，一個小女孩，一個我們的朋友，但她不是一只貓。她并沒有被刻畫成一個用四條腿走路的形象，而是像我們人類一樣”矢野解釋說。
稍微動下腦筋你就會知道,Hello Kitty其實是凱蒂·懷特——一位天蝎座喜歡蘋果派的女孩,喬治和瑪麗·懷特的女兒。 Sanrio has revealed Hello Kitty -- the supposedly adorable feline character that adorns everything from lunch boxes and toasters to t-shirts and lingerie -- is, in fact, not a cat. We repeat NOT A CAT.

Just what is Hello Kitty, you're asking?

Hello Kitty is a human girl (and a British one at that), Christine R. Yano, the author of "Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific," told The Los Angeles Times.

"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. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature," Yano explained to the Times.

And if you are ready for your mind to be just a little more blown, the character we all know as Hello Kitty is actually Kitty White -- a Scorpio who loves apple pie, and is the daughter of George and Mary White.

"She has a twin sister. She's a perpetual third-grader. She lives outside of London. I could go on. A lot of people don't know the story and a lot don't care," Yano told the paper.