Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon, as her name appears on her birth

certificate was born on July 6, 1907 in the house of her parents, known as La Casa
Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacan.

Her father, Guillermo Kahlo (1872-1941), was born in Pforzheim, Germany. Frida
acknowledged and asserted her German heritage by spelling her name, Frieda (an
allusion to "Frieden", which means "peace" in German). Frida's mother, Matilde
Calderon y Gonzalez, was a devout Catholic of primarily indigenous, as well as
Spanish descent. Guillermo and Matilde had four daughters, with Frida being the
third. She had two older half-sisters.

The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 when Kahlo was three years old. Later,
however, Kahlo claimed that she was born in 1910 so people would directly
associate her with the revolution. Kahlo contracted polio at age six, which left her
right leg thinner than the left, which Kahlo disguised by wearing long skirts.

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