Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico, and her mother, Matilde Calderón y Gonzáles, was of Spanish and Indigenous Mexican descent. Due to a childhood bout of polio that left her right leg thinner than her left, Kahlo walked with a limp for the rest of her life. As a teenager, Kahlo was intellectually gifted and attended the prestigious National Preparatory School in Mexico...