Before we toast Kitty White’s 50th, let’s take a minute to ... 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.” ...

Hello Kitty’s real name is Kitty White and she was born in England. She isn’t a cat. Instead she’s an eight-year-old girl and she has her own pet cat of her own called Charmmy Kitty.

According to Koch, Hello Kitty, who "weighs three apples" and is five apples tall, grew up in the London suburbs with her twin sister, Mimmy, their parents, and the family's pet cat, Charmmy Kitty.