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Its beauty is based on the perfection and harmony of the design. What is furthermore fascinating about the Venus of Willendorf is the astonishingly detailed, naturalistic image of an obese woman. The very detailed representation shows that there must have been fat people at the time. The curves are rendered so naturalistically that they could not have been invented. Skeleton finds of the time imply that sufficient food, combined with increased settledness, could obviously lead to this kind of appearance. Physicians will see in the Venus of Willendorf a middle-aged obese woman; an aspect gaining particular importance when we think about the possible purpose of the statuette.