Update: Ben Walsh at the Huffington Post reports that Tabatha Bundesen has denied the $100 million reported by the Daily Express. My colleague Megan Garber has more here.

Grumpy Cat is a fur bundle with a lovably cantankerous punim and a mouth like an isosceles triangle where the bottom has come detached. Since appearing on Reddit in 2012, it (née "Tardar Sauce") has become "Internet famous," which is becoming a less useful term now that billions of people around the world are practically breathing the Internet all day long. (Does anybody say, "she's just primetime cable-TV famous"?) Indeed, Grumpy Cat is famous, period, and its owner has licensed her pet's very real and enormous fame to make a great sum of money, as she should.

The Daily Express reports that Grumpy Cat has made $100 million in the last two years. That means its owner, the former waitress Tabatha Bundesen, is making more money than all but a handful of actors and athletes in the world, even when you include their endorsements, licenses, and filmed appearances. (Indeed, endorsements, licenses, and filmed appearances is exactly how Grumpy Cat makes its money, too.)

Average Annual Earnings, in Millions of Dollars

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As surprising as the number behind the dollar sign was to me, I was even more surprised to open Twitter this morning and find people downright hostile to the idea that it's reasonable to make $100 million from an insanely famous cat's mildly deformed face.

The fact that this woman made $100 million because her stupid cat looks bummed out fills me with unspeakable rage. http://t.co/BLOdmtkQmV — Ben White (@morningmoneyben) December 8, 2014

@charlescwcooke @morningmoneyben Even conservatives should be uncomfortable with so much wealth being determined by lottery. — Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) December 8, 2014

Ben and Joe are smart journalists, but they don't know what they're talking about. People make money—obscene amounts of it—from their looks, or equally randomly advantages, all the time. Gisele Bundchen is worth $290 million, and I can't think of any way that her height, place of birth, skin tone, or bone structure is any less a natural lottery than Grumpy Cat's perfect caret mouth. Gisele works hard, but licensing deals worth tens of millions of dollars don't fall out of the sky, either. Both fortunes are earned.