What illness did the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo suffer from as a child?

Martha, actually some people do get better but may have after effects. My college friend walked with a slight limp because of it. She had polio as a child.

TRUE CANADIAN Laurel women did have thick eyebrows in her day. most women did, they plucked them to make them thin.

I feel this is badly worded - pretty sure Polio doesn't "get better" and if she suffered from it as a child she would continue to do so as an adult.

She was travelling on a tram when the accident happened and a long piece of metal (possibly the hand rail) went through her body. I went to visit her ‘Blue House’ in Mexico City and Diego Rivera’s is built next to hers and linked by a walkway bridge.

Next to being a fascinating artist, she was the lover of Trotsky