Frida Kahlo lived 47 years marked by physical agony and emotional turbulence. A childhood bus accident shattered her body. A passionate, painful marriage to Diego Rivera broke and mended her heart repeatedly. She endured over 30 surgeries, multiple miscarriages, and chronic pain that never left. So she painted. Not to escape reality but to confront it with brutal honesty. Her self-portraits weren't narcissism. They were documentation. Proof that she existed. That her pain mattered. That Mexican