The network is popular with a motivational quote attributed to the famous Mexican artist. We checked whether Kalo wrote something like that.

The quote completely looks like this: “I used to think that I was the most strange person in the world, but then it occurred to me that there are so many people in the world and there is probably the second bizarre as I am.”

A quote signed by Frida Kalo can be read on entertainment sites (Ivona, Womo, "Lifehaker","Picabu"), On the pages educational institutions, in the network meetings aphorisms, as well as in large numbers in Facebook, Instagram And "VKontakte".

The Mexican artist Frida Kalo (1907–1954) left a noticeable mark in painting, and her bright and difficult life still remains for many a source of inspiration. Biographical movie 2002, who received two Oscars, provided a long wave of interest in a woman who called icon of feminism. In the West, its quotes are actively distributed, and in English, the statement of our own oddity that interests us can also be found in the biography of the artist "Frida forever»Authorship of the American writer Katie Canyo-Murillo, and in set other books published in the 2010–2020s. There is a quote for site Denver Art Museum, one of the largest in the West of the United States, as well as on a popular (but unofficial) site Fridakahlo.org.

The only authorized resources associated with the name of the famous Mexican, are sites Museum of Frida Kalo in Mexico City and the company's rights to the company's trademark of the company Frida Kahlo Corporation - Do not contain traces of the desired phrase. And if in the English -language segment of the network she began diverge In the summer of 2010 (much earlier than the earliest Russian -speaking examples), then to the Spanish, the artist’s native language, the queue came, oddly enough, only In the fall 2011. At the same time, no reputable sources are talking about any authoritative sources, these are simply notes of ordinary bloggers.

If in the earliest English -speaking publication with the phrase (2010), go to the link posted there Tumblr, then after another click you can get to the next picture.

In addition to the phrase under consideration, there is such a continuation: “I imagine it and imagine that she also thinks about me somewhere there. I hope that if you are somewhere there, then you read it and you know that yes, this is true, I am here and I am as strange as you. ” From this part there is a feeling that the text is written for publication on the Internet. Frida Kalo’s name is not mentioned under him, but a fragment of her portrait was used in the design. The edges of the picture contain traces of wear, as if it is a scanned postcard.

Since 2005, an art project has been in the USA since 2005 PostSecret - A site through which everyone can anonymously share with others one of their secrets, sending a postcard with him to a certain address in California. There are no restrictions on the topic of secrets - they just should be truthful and not known to anyone except the author of the postcard. Each postcard is a kind of work of art in the author’s design, and the social mission of the project is to help cope with psychological pressure: people talk about the sexual harassment, their criminal activity, or simply about secret desires. As of the first quarter of 2008, the site Entered The top ten most popular among American students.

Just in March 2008, 17-year-old Canadian Rebecca Martin Sent On PostSecret, a card with a mentioned reflection cited above, having made it out of Frida Kalo, torn from the magazine. On March 16, the postcard was Published The first in the next selection on PostSecret and caused a wide response of readers. “Many commentators wrote that they feel the same. It was just very pleasant, it made me happy, ” - Recognized Later Martin.

Seven years later, flipping the Facebook tape, Canadian I met The words familiar to her, but in the publication they were attributed to Frida Kalo. Martin wrote to the author of the post that this is actually her quote. The girl who began to realize the scale of error began to torment the question: “How will I ever correct this situation?” By her own admission, Rebecca had to not so much tell the world about his authorship, but to convince people that Frida Kalo did not say this.

After that, Martin discovered that the Australian cartoonist Gavin aun Tan Used Her words as a basis for one of the issues of her comic book Zen Pencils, dedicated to inspirational quotes. The heroine of the comic book is a girl very similar to Frida Kalo, who is trying with all his might to fit into society.

Received from Martin Australian I could not To independently determine the origin of the statement and, on the advice of readers, turned to the Quote Investigator project, which specializes in the attribution of disputed quotes. It soon came out investigation The project, which confirmed the authorship of Rebecca Martin thanks to the publishing in PostSecret, preserved in the Internet archive.

However, by that time, the quote attributed to Frida Kalo had already spread too much so that this trend could stop some separate publications with refutations. The new surge in popularity happened in 2021, when the phrase, along with one of the self -portraits of Frida Kalo Published On Twitter, the New York Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMA).

As a result, the phrase under the authorship of Frida Kalo, actually owned by Rebecca Martin, is actively spreading today. “I think people really like to believe that Frida Kalo said it because she is such a strong personality.” speaks Real author.

After the acquaintances of Martin in the comments on the virus post indicated this author, the museum representatives limited themselves to a short message about the incorrect attribution of the quote from the Mexican artist, but did not delete or correct the post.