The Statue Of Liberty has welcomed immigrants for 130 years, but a new report claims Lady Liberty is actually a man in a dress.

On Discovery Channel's Secrets of America’s Favorite Places,” airing tonight at 6pm, historians delve into some of the statue's secrets, including who was the real model for the iconic landmark.

The accepted theory is that French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi chose his mother, Charlotte, as the inspiration for the statue’s face, but historian Elizabeth Mitchell has a different theory.

“As I was looking at it more carefully, the structure of the face isn’t really the same. [His mother] has a more arched eyebrow, has a thinner nose, has thinner lips, even in her youth," Mitchell, author of Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure To Build the Statue of Liberty, told the New York Post.

"And he was a bust-maker... known for his accuracy."

Mitchell believes the face actually belongs to Bartholdi's brother, Jean-Charles.

“Going through photos he had in his files of his brother, I started to look at the face more carefully, and it really did look to be like Liberty," she said. "His brother in his adult years had actually gone mad, and it was Bartholdi’s task to go once a week to visit, sometimes [spending] hours just staring at his brother, who was not speaking.”