Photos of a Very Young Frida Kahlo, Taken by Her Dad — openculture.com

Long before the tumultuous marriage to Diego Rivera and the mortifications of the flesh occasioned by a horrific bus accident, and longer still before the avalanche of Frida-centric kitsch and tchotchkes and the Julie Taymor biopic starring Salma Hayek, there was a cherubic little girl named Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón. Would this angel grow up to inscribe her diary thusly: I cannot relieve my frustrations with sex.  I don’t give a shit what the world thinks.  I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked.  But I was happy in my way.

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