Frida Kahlo was a famous woman painter. Frida was born in Mexico City on July 6 of 1907. During her childhood she obtained polio and at the age of 18 she suffered a terrible accident in a bus. During the accident Frida broke her pelvis and her right leg. Frida Kahlo met a famous muralist named Diego Rivera around her twenties. After that she married him in 1929. Frida's Husband Diego Rivera was contracted to make a mural in the United States and they were traveling from New York and Detroit. Frida and Diego had other affairs with other people and many times even shared the same women. Wen Frida's mother was agonising, Frida returned to Mexico. Frida Kahlo new about her husband's affairs wth other women, but could no longer take it when she found her sister with her husband. From there on, she began to paint her tormented life or how she felt towards it. She seperated from her husband but they did not divorce. She later was imprisoned because she was the wife of a communist. While she was in jail, her physical condition worsened. After that she had to use an iron corset. She then made a self-portrait of herself that she called "La Columna Rota" ( "The Broken Column"). Most of her paintings revelaed the suffering that she lived. She became famous and had exhibitions in New York City and Paris, but her main dream was to be able to see her exhibition in Mexico City. By that time she had already divorced her husbad Diego Rivera. They were legally divorced a long time when Diego Rivera looked for her again, and they married again. Frida's physical condition was becoming worse and her right leg was amputated. The last time she was seen in public was when she had an exhibiton in Mexico City, and since it was prohibited for her to get out of bed, she went to the exposition in bed. 
The life of Frida Kahlo is very similar to the people that travel from the United Stated to Mexico to successful in life and be recongnized for her talent.
