Kahlo was innate Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón inside her parents' home within Coyoacán, which at the period was the settlement on the fringe of Mexico City. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a painter & lensman of German-Jewish background, whose family originated from either Oradea, Romania. the immature Frida suffered a bout of polio at age six, which left her best leg shopping very much thinly than a more. However, sustaining a feisty & cheeky personality that she saved throughout her life, she overcame her impairment.

Around 1925, the tramcar hit the bus Kahlo was riding; an cast-iron banister impaled her, broke her spine, & exited across her vagina. She survived her injuries & yet regained her ability to hike, however she would own relapses of extreme pain which would plague her for life. Fallowing the accident, Kahlo turned her attention from either a medical career to painting. Drawing in her household experiences, her works come typically shocking in their stark portrayal of trouble & a coarse lives of women. Fifty-5 of her 143 paintings come self-portraits that incorporate private symbolism complete by having graphic anatomical information. She was likewise influenced by autochthonous Mexican culture, aspects of which she portrayed within brightly colors, by owning the mixture of realism & symbolism.

Her paintings attracted a attention of the creative person Diego Rivera, whom she later married, divorced, & re-married. A few's marriage was super unstable & hard. Rivera was said to use battered Kahlo inside fits of rage. While it 1st married, he was 42, Hexad foot I inside. (Unity.86 m) tall, & 300 pounds (136 kilogram); she was Twenty-two, Quintuplet'Tercet", and 98 pounds. Kahlo once stated, "I personally suffered 2 grave accidents within our life. the single required a bus... a more accident is Diego."

An active Communist supporter, Kahlo allegedly had an affair with Leon Trotsky, who was assassinated at his home in Mexico City by agents of Stalin in 1940. Sometime after Trotsky's death, Frida denounced her former friend and praised the Soviet Union under Stalin. She spoke favorably of Mao, calling China "the newly socialist hope". Her home was decorated with socialist art, including portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Stalin, and Mao Zedong.

Although Kahlo's work is sometimes classified as surrealist and she did exhibit several times with European surrealists, she disputed the label. Her preoccupation with female themes and the figurative candor with which she expressed them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th century.

Kahlo died on July 13, 1954, of a pulmonary embolism. She had been ill throughout the previous year, and had a leg amputated due to gangrene. Her ashes were placed in a pre-Columbian urn which is on display in her former home La Casa Azul in Coyoacán, which has been turned into a museum containing a number of her works.

A biographical documentary containing archival footage, entitled Frida Kahlo, was released in 1982, in Germany. In 1984 director Paul Le Duc released the film Frida, naturaleza viva, which stars Ofelia Medina as Frida Kahlo. In 2002, Miramax released a motion picture titled Frida, starring Salma Hayek in the title role.

Kahlo was noted for her unconventional appearance, including pronounced eyebrows (a unibrow) and a thin moustache which she did not remove.