Background
Campobello was born as one of six children of Rafaela Luna.
choreographer writer ballet dancer
Campobello was born as one of six children of Rafaela Luna.
Her older half-sister Francisca was a well-known writer and dancer, known as Nellie Campobello. Her name at birth was probably Soledad instead of Gloria, and probably her year of birth was 1911. Some sources mention, that Nellie and Gloria had the same father, but Nellie"s father died in 1914.
After 1943 she had an affair with José Clemente Orozco, who left his family in 1946, and moved with her to New York City, where Gloria abandoned him.