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Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo rose to prominence in the early to mid-1900s and still retains her popularity today. Kahlo is an icon within the Mexican American community, the feminist movement, and also within the LGBTQ community. She suffered through a horrible bus accident when she was 18 years old. Several people were killed and Kahlo was impaled in the pelvis area. She continued to struggle with pain from the incident for the rest of her life. Her painting was also largely influenced by the horrible accident. After suffering immensely in her later life, even enduring a leg amputation, Frida died at age 47 years old. It is believed that she took a deliberate overdose of pain medication although the official cause of death was “pulmonary embolism”