“I have suffered two serious accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar ran over me…. The other accident is Diego.” This is what Frida Kahlo is quoted saying after the divorce with her husband, Diego Rivera, in 1939 after their messy, inevitable divorce. They first met properly in 1928, after Diego had reviewed some of her botany illustrations. He saw extreme talent in Frida and admired her fiery personality, which may have led to him pursuing her despite the twenty-year age gap between the two. Diego also had a very strong personality and great artistic ability. When Frida’s parents were first told of the impending wedding, they were astounded. They compared the couple to an elephant marrying a dove. Frida’s and Diego’s marriage lasted ten years until 1929. Both Frida and Diego had multiple affairs throughout the ten-year span of their first marriage. Frida had numerous affairs with both men and women, while Diego had affairs with multiple women, one of the women being Fridas own sister. Shortly after the divorce, Frida completed the painting, The Two Fridas, in 1939. The painting represented the loneliness and desperation she felt from the separation with Diego. It also represented what she felt were her two personalities, one traditional and one modern, holding each other together and keeping the other one alive despite the depiction of one bleeding out, which may be the representation of her desperation at the time. Despite the affairs, the age gap, and the clashing of their two strong personalities, the two had great love for each other. The two eventually remarried in 1940 and would remain married until Frida died in 1954.