Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907,
in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. She changed the spelling later
to Frida and would claim she was born in 1910 to link herself
with the Mexican Revolution. Kahlo's art reflects her life which
was filled with sickness, injury and chronic pain. At age six,
Kahlo contracted polio and had to spend 9 months confined to her
bedroom. She created an imaginary friend who would later be
reflected in a painting called "The Two Fridas." She wrote in
her diary, "I experienced intensely an imaginary friendship with
a little girl more or less the same age as me . I followed her
in all her movements and while she danced, I told her my secret
problems." She did recover from the illness, but she limped when
she walked because the disease had damaged her right leg and
foot. In 1925, Kahlo was injured badly when the school bus she
was on collided with a streetcar. A metal pole pierced into her
body breaking her spine. During a long recuperation period,
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