- Her painting "Self Portrait With Monkey" is now owned by Madonna, who is a big fan of her work. In fact Madonna campaigned for the role of Frida, in Frida (2002) as did Jennifer Lopez, and tried to get a film made for numerous years. The film was eventually made with Salma Hayek in the title role. 'Madonna (I)' loaned the painting for the first time in over a decade to the Tate Modern Exhibition (the biggest exhibition of surreal art shown in the UK for two decades) in September 2001.
- Changed her birth year to 1910 in order to affiliate herself further with being a product of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910.
- Her father, Guillermo Kahlo (born Carl Wilhelm Kahlo in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg), was a German who immigrated to Mexico; he was from a Lutheran family. Her mother, Matilde Calderón y González, was a Mexican with Indigenous and Spanish ancestry, and was from a Catholic family.
- In Mexico, Kahlo is known as "la heroina del dolor" (the heroine of pain).
- Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2017 in the category Music & Arts.
- The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in June 2001 to honor Kahlo.
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