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How did polio affect Frida Kahlo during childhood?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

In 1913, when Frida Kahlo was a child, she contracted polio. This illness left her with a slight limp, a physical impairment she endured throughout the rest of her life.12