This Frida Kahlo self-portrait depicts the artist holding husband Diego Rivera like a mother and her baby. In fact, Rivera was older than Kahlo. What was the age difference of the notoriously tempestuous couple?

The couple's incongruity also extended to their physical appearances: Frida was just 5' 3" and 100 pounds, while Diego was 6' tall and nearly 300 pounds. But their connection was deep, as Frida expressed exquisitely in her adoring love letters. “Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light."

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