Frida Kahlo: A Biography

Herrera describes how, even when she was encased in a plaster cast around her torso for months on end, she still continued to paint, rigging easels and holding herself up by bedrails.

A few months later, to Frida's great relief, they returned to Mexico

In 1933, Diego was commissioned by the wealthy American industrialist John D. Rockefeller and his father, Nelson Rockefeller, to create a huge mural in the lobby of the new RCA building in New York's Rockefeller Cente

Diego and Frida became instant celebrities when they came to the United States in 1930

Frida's "Wedding Portrait" which she completed in 1931

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were married in 1929

Now, she remembered Rivera, and in 1927, she boldly approached him as he was painting a mural in the Ministry of Education building.

six years old, little Frida was struck by polio

She was also a gifted scholar, and was accepted to study at one of Mexico's finest schools, the Preparatoria

At one point, she wrote in her diary, "I keep on waiting to kill myself."