In an age of television makeovers, it is perhaps inevitable that eventually Martha Washington's turn would come.

A team of historians, curators and forensic anthropologists have concluded that the first first lady - imagined by Americans for more than 200 years to be a dowdy, double-chinned and dowager-capped matron - may have actually been hot.

A computerised age-regression portrait was commissioned to peel away the age and wrinkles and reveal the slim and lively brown-haired woman in her 20s who captivated a future revolutionary hero and president.

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