There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

During this period Kahlo also witnessed violent armed struggles in the streets of Mexico City as the Mexican Revolution continued. "
Her mother had a special easel made for her so Frida Kahlo could paint in bed and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some bruFrida Kahlos. Kahlo joined a clique at the school and became enamored of the strongest personality of it Alejandro Gómez Arias.

She suffered lifelong health problems. She gave her birth date as July 7 1910 but her birth certificate shows July 6 1907. Her work has also been described as "surrealist" and in 1938 André Breton principal initiator of the surrealist movement described Kahlo's art as a "ribbon around a bomb".