Frida Kahlo was diagnosed with polio at the age of six. She was still alive when polio epidemics were around. This made her right leg skinnier and shorter than her left leg. Her art was influinced by indigenous Mexican culture. Frequlently she would put a monkey in her paintings, in mexican mytholigy she monkey symbolizes lust. When frida was 18 she was almost killed on a bus ride, she dislocated her hip and shoulder, and broke her spinal column, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, and right leg in 11 places. She died on July 13, 1954 at the age of 47.