Martha Washington Foxy Lady?

washingtonpost.com:

This just in: Martha Washington was hot. Or at least hotter than we thought.

Our image of the mother of our country, vague and insubstantial as it is, is drawn from portraits painted after her death showing a frumpy, dumpy, plump old lady, a fussy jumble of needlework in her lap, wearing what could pass for a shower cap with pink sponge rollers rolled too tight underneath.

Read the whole story: washingtonpost.com

Comments

[newdreams]

04:25 PM on 02/04/2009

Looks like a cross between Helen Hunt and Gloria Estefan.

[goldnchyl]

10:41 AM on 02/03/2009

'Looks a bit like Rachel Maddow

[truestarr]

10:07 AM on 02/03/2009

She looks just like Kate Middleton, the girlfriend of Prince William!

http://www.gossipgirls.com/kate-middleton?type=story&usg=__229Ptq1ahUuLfrt7PD2FwZ3efd4=

[ominous]

09:43 AM on 02/03/2009

if she looked anything like that portrait, then NO.

[sherifffruitfly]

07:48 AM on 02/03/2009

Well George was rich, so I assume she was hawt.

[robivecchi]

06:13 PM on 02/04/2009

She was far wealthier than him so who knows.

[retrocozayshin]

03:04 AM on 02/03/2009

Oh cool, historical revisionism. What's next on the list?

[skippypicasso]

09:05 PM on 02/03/2009

For you, I assume it's learning what 'historical revisionism' is.

[bltmn]

02:14 AM on 02/03/2009

Martha was nice, but I've always had the hots for Abigail Adams.

[riskybusiness]

01:11 AM on 02/03/2009

Cokie Roberts wrote a truly wonderful book named "Our Founding Mothers". If you haven't read it, you need to. IMHO George would have fell on his face without Martha.

[TXfemmom]

11:50 PM on 02/02/2009

I don't know if she was hot. I refuse to sign up for the Washington Post site. Huff should stop putting things on there, if we have to sign up to read them.

[karinova]

12:54 AM on 02/03/2009

??

I didn't have to sign up to read it...

[harriettubman]

11:23 PM on 02/02/2009

All reports always describe Lincoln's wife as "crazy." Having lost most of her kids to death, I believe she cracked up.

[NoblesseOblige]

12:22 AM on 02/03/2009

That may be so, but, this story is about Martha Washington--not Mrs. Lincoln.

[repugnicansfearme]

11:14 PM on 02/02/2009

Man, and George with those wooden dentures. Hmmmm

[karinova]

09:38 PM on 02/02/2009

I wasn't too impressed by the "computerized age-regressed portrait" commissioned by a bunch of historians "seeking to revamp the former first lady's fusty image." I was like, "Eh. That doesn't necessarily tell me what she was like."

Then I saw those shoes.

Yowza!!!

[MarionWatts]

08:00 PM on 02/02/2009

I feel deprived. Charles Carter was my ancestor. Oh well, he lost.

[Pdubya]

07:52 PM on 02/02/2009

the original 420 girl.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

07:26 PM on 02/02/2009

Martha: we hardly knew ye!!