Email: How Salma suffered for Frida's art.(Features)

From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: February 16, 2003 | Copyright information

SEXY Salma Hayek says she was born to play the part of a one-eyebrowed, moustachioed, Mexican revolutionary artist, which led to her Oscar nomination last week.

Frida Kahlo, a bi-sexual whose many lovers included Russian Revolution leader Leon Trotsky, also had bad teeth and one leg shorter than the other.

Gorgeous, successful Salma fought an ...

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