Frida Kahlo had a hard life when she was small. Her and her sister, Christina, did not get along, and fought about her father's health. I think she has a fascinating story, and I would like to tell you it.
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, Mexico, and passed away July 13, 1954. Her mother was named Matilde Calderon Y Gonzalez and died when Frida was in her 20s. Kahlo’s father's name was Guillermo Kahlo. He died of an old age.
When Frida was six, she contracted polio. Somehow on her left leg the muscle became thinner, so her left leg was shorter than her right leg. She got bullied and people called her “Peg Leg” and “One legged Frida.”
Once she was old enough, she started to paint to make money for her family. When she was 12, she started middle school. At the middle school, they were supposed to wear uniforms (long skirts, long sleeve button up shirts), but she broke the rules and wore short sleeve shirts. In high school, she got bullied for having a unibrow and a faint mustache, but she didn’t care, she simply embraced it!
On September 17, 1925, she was on a wooden bus on her way home from school. The bus collided with a streetcar. One of the metal poles went through her ribs and came out her pubic area. She suffered several injuries including, a broken spinal column, a broken collarbone, broken ribs, a broken pelvis, 11 fractures in her right leg, and a crushed right foot. After that, she could no longer have kids.
When she was in her full body cast, her boyfriend came in and told her that he was moving to Italy. She said ok and asked him when. He said by the next week or so. She started to draw a butterfly on her cast and said, “I want you to leave before I finish this butterfly.” Then, she never saw him again.
In 1929, she married Diego Rivera, in the town hall of Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico. Frida wore a long skirt and flowers in her hair. Diego wore a plain grey suit. In 1939, they divorced. After they divorced, she chopped all her hair off. Then again in 1940, they remarried. Frida lived in a blue house, and right next door lived Diego in a bright pink house.
In her last years, she spent most of her time in the hospital, because she was passing away from heart disease, and respiratory failure. She passed away, July 13, 1954, with Diego by her side in Mexico City, Mexico.
Frida showed that she cannot only do good without a man, but better. Throughout her years of anger and disappointment, she realized something, be YOURSELF! When she was getting bullied for having a mustache and unibrow, she didn’t care, she embraced it. Despite what matter, what, always be you.
SOURCES:
-“Frida Kahlo.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 Apr. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo.
-“World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia.” World Book, worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar293750&st=frida%2Bkahlo#tab=homepage.
-Milner, Frank, and Frida Kahlo. Frida Kahlo. PRC Publishing Ltd., 2001.
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