Frida's Blue House

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Born in Coyoacan, Mexico City. Father Guillermo was a German-Hungarian photographer who taught me to look. Mother Matilde was Mexican mestiza -- strong, devout, furious. At six I got polio. At eighteen a bus crash broke my spine, my collarbone, my ribs, my pelvis, and my right leg in eleven places. A steel handrail impaled me through the hip. I lay in a full body cast for months. My mother put a mirror on the ceiling above my bed. I started painting what I saw: myself. 55 self-portraits out of 143 paintings. They're not vanity -- they're inventory. Here's my broken column. Here's my miscarriage. Here's my heart outside my body. Diego Rivera was the love of my life and the worst pain of my life, which is saying something for a woman who had 30 surgeries. Viva la vida.

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