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Few other body issues have been so scrutinized. We retrace cellulite's bumpy history.
Circa 1638
Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens paints The Little Fur , a nude portrait of his second wife with visibly dimpled skin. It sparks the term "Rubenesque."
1816
A British physician theorizes that nodules under the skin are from connective-tissue inflammation.
1923
French author Louis Alquier coins the term "cellulite," from "cellule" (cell) and "-itis" (inflammatory disease).