“Me pinto a mí misma, porque soy a quien mejor conozco”. “I paint myself because I know who I am best”. Her complete birth name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón. Her artistic name is Frida Kahlo and she is well known to also be a feminist icon who is admired. Frida lived to be 47 years old. Her father was a Jew of Hungarian-German descent and her mother was a native born Mexican of Spanish/Indian descent.
Religious Beliefs
Kahlo’s father was a Jewish German immigrant, and her mother was a devout Roman Catholic. However, there is a book about Kahlo claiming that her father was a descendent of German Lutherans. Kahlo did not believe in either of these faiths. Although Frida wasn’t …show more content…
The result of this crash, Kahlo ended up being impaled by a steel handrail, which went into her hip and arrived the other side. She suffered several injuries that were very severe, including fractures in her back and pelvis. The accident left in so much pain that she spent three months recovering in a full body cast. Although she ended up recuperating from her injuries, Frida was able to walk again, and she remembered the pain of what she had endured. Often she was told to stay on bed rest for long periods at a time because of the pain and the damage that her body was trying to fix. She had about 35 operations as a result of the accident, mainly on her back, her right leg, and her right foot. Sadly, she had complications and permanent damage that prevented her from having children; though she conceived three times, unfortunately she had three miscarriages due to her health and her injury.
Health Status
Her health issues worsened in 1950. Frida was diagnosed with gangrene in her foot. She had to stay nine months in the hospital and the doctors did several operations to her. She did not stop painting regardless of her low ability to move around kept helping governmental issues as much as possible. In 1953, Frida had her first exhibition, even though she was not allowed to get up from bed she still attended why laying in her bed and arrived by ambulance. She spent her time talking and enjoying the event with the people who attended her exhibition pf paintings from the bed she laid on.
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