I always thought that Ms Liberty was kinda cute.

As you all know, the copper statue of the goddess of Liberty was a present by France, as a centennial gift to the U.S. and a sign of friendship between the two nations.

French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture

Bartholdi had an authentic American model, it appears: the good-looking, recently widowed Isabella Eugenie Boyer, the wife of Isaac Singer, the sewing-machine industrialist.

She was, from the beginning of her career in Paris, a well-known figure.
As the good-looking French widow of an American industrialist she was called upon to be Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty.