Coco Channeling Frida Kahlo

Well, what can I say. I like this picture of Coco Rocha Conran. and Frida.
Coco is the BEST supermodel ever. Her pictures are so energetic, expressive, magnificent, breath- taking and everything. Words can't describe her. She is just so fantastic and I bloody like her so much. She is also a very good runway model, and also performing well in editorials. Furthermore, she's also a very good dancer.

And about Frida. Or Ms. Kahlo.
She's the lady printed in Coco's tank top. She was an amazing painter. Famous for her self- portrait paintings. So, this is her biography (If you're interested because I am)

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyaocan, Mexico in 1907. However, she claimed her birthdate as 1910, th eyear of the Mexican Revolution, saying that she and modern Mexico had been born together.

When she was six years old she contracted polio and spent nine months confined to her room. As a result, her right leg was very thin and made her walk in a strange way. When she returned to school, the children teased her. From then on, she always concealed her right leg.

When she was eighteen, she was seriously injured in an accident between a streetcar and a bus: a metal handrail pierced her body. Over the years she underwent  thirty-two major operations and suffered enermous pain for the rest of her life.

She was her father's fave daughter, and he called her his dove.

She married a famous muralist, Diego Rivera, when she was twenty. He was forty-two and had been married twice before.

She told a journalist, 'When I was seventeen Diego began to fall in love with me. My father didn't like him because he was a communist and because they said it was like an elephant marrying a dove.'

They had a stormy relationship. Kahlo and Rivera both had irritable temperaments and numerous extramarital affairs. The bisexual Kahlo had affairs with both men and women, including Isamu Noguchi, Josephine Baker, and Russian leader Leon Trotsky; Rivera knew of and tolerated her relationships with women, but her relationships with men made him jealous. For her part, Kahlo was furious when she learned that Rivera had an affair with her younger sister, Cristina. The couple divorced in November 1939. Frida was devastated and for a while stopped wearing the traditional Mexican dresses that Diego loved so much. Ironically, she painted some of her most powerful works during her seperation from Diego. The couple remarried in December 1940. Their second marriage was as troubled as the first. Their living quarters were often separate, although sometimes adjacent. On that year, she also travelled to Paris where she met Picasso. The Louvre purchased one of her self- portraits.

In 1946 she had surgery on her spine, and in 1953 her right leg was amputated below the knee.

Frida was never able to have children. She said: 'My painting carries within it the message of pain.' And when asked why she painted herself so often, she replied 'Because I'm all alone.'

She died in 1954 at the age of forty seven, barely two weeks after taking part in a communist demonstration.