Inflammation is the body's way of alerting the immune system to heal and repair damaged tissue or start to fight viruses and bacteria. So, it is a very helpful process, but if it persists and becomes chronic, it can be a problem for the body. Kligman even found inflammatory cells in cellulite skin samples, which might mean that the chronic inflammation resulted in fat breakdown and death of skin cells in the layer beneath the skin, which then caused the dimples of cellulite.