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After countless failed diets, numerous ridiculous shoe purchases, and thousands of misunderstandings with Irving, the very last Cathy comic strip announced that Cathy is expecting a daughter.
Think about it. Because it's the last Cathy strip, Cathy Guiswite spared her readers countless "acks" about morning sickness, maternity clothes shopping, labor pains, sleepless nights, and the rest of the usual "comic" pregnancy events.
And after 35 years of Cathy's negative body image, we didn't think we could take Cathy-pigging-out-because-she's-pregnant or Cathy-trying-to-lose-the-baby-weight.
Thank you, Cathy Guisewite.
Also, unlike a real celebrity's child, Cathy and Irving's kid won't get picked up for drunk driving or be part of a gruesome custody battle.
Cathy won't annoy us by dropping her baby weight in three weeks.
Irving won't get drunk and call up his daughter and abuse her.
He also won't call weekly press conferences about his daughter's drug addiction.
It's pretty sad when real life celebrities act stupider than people in the funny papers. Or, as Cathy would have said, Ack!
I used to love Cathy, I quit reading it a year or so after the wedding... same thing over and over and freaking over. It was WAY past time for it to end, and yes, definitely nice that readers were spared more of the same, only difference being from the pregnancy standpoint.