We cannot tell a lie – it turns out that Martha Washington was a real babe.

Forget the view of our first first lady as an old frump with a double chin, and think first knockout!

The surprising peek into the past comes courtesy of forensic anthropologists who, using a miniature portrait of a middle-aged Martha, did a computerized age-regression portrait that shows what she would have looked like at 25.

“We always see Martha with a withered face in her old age. But she was quite a beautiful woman in her younger years, and Washington loved her deeply,” Edward Lengel, senior editor at the Papers of George Washington project at the University of Virginia, told The Washington Post.

George and Martha got hitched 250 years ago last month, and her flattering new portrait now hangs at George Washington’s Historic Mount Vernon.