Guadalupe Marín
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Guadalupe Marín (d. 1983) was a model and novelist born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The second wife of muralist Diego Rivera and mother of his two youngest daughters, Ruth and Guadalupe Rivera.
She was the subject of portrait paintings by Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Juan Soriano. She is featured in the Rivera mural Creation where she modeled as Justice, Song, and Woman. She also modeled nude for Rivera's Chapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant.
In 1938 Marín's semi-autobiographical novel La Única was published. In 2003 the novel and Marín were cited by author Salvador A. Oropesa in his book The Contemporáneos Group as being a feminist component of a counterculture writers' movement in post-revolution Mexico.
She was portrayed by Valeria Golino in the 2002 film Frida.
