Guadalupe Marín

Guadalupe "Lupe" Marín (October 16, 1895 – September 16, 1983), born María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, was a Mexican model and novelist.

Biography Marín was born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico. When aged eight, Marín moved with her family to Guadalajara. In 1922, she became the second wife of muralist Diego Rivera. She was the mother of Rivera's two youngest daughters, Ruth and Guadalupe Rivera Marín. Marín was married to Rivera for six years, ending in 1928.

She was married to the poet Jorge Cuesta on November 9, 1928; they divorced on April 13, 1933. She had one son from her second marriage, Lucio Antonio Cuesta-Marín, born in 1930. She is featured in the Rivera mural Creation, for which she modeled as Strength, Song, and Woman, and modeled nude as Earth for Rivera's Chapingo chapel mural while several months pregnant. She also modeled for photographer Edward Weston. Of the 1924 portrait, Weston wrote "I am finishing the portrait of Lupe. It is a heroic head, the best I have done in Mexico."

In 1938, Marín's semi-autobiographical novel La Única (The Unique Woman) was published. Her book La Única was banned in Mexico for many years owing to its erotic nature.

She was portrayed by Valeria Golino in the 2002 film Frida.