This is Sarah Blakely, the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world due to her lady undergarment creation known as Spanx:
This is Phoebe from friends explaining her mothers death:
Blakely saw her best friend get run over by a car at 16 and got a sense of her mortality and used it as a motivating factor in her life. When she was 29 she had only $5,000 in savings and now owns 100% of her billion dollar company today. Her husband says she’s “50% Lucille Ball, 50% Einstein” and Forbes details some of her more eccentric qualities.
She was a contestant on that Richard Branson reality competition show in 2004 that I never saw but whose commercials stuck with me.
In 2008, she married Jesse Itzler. In 2009, she gave birth to their son, but before I say his name, remember that her maiden name + her married name is Sarah Blakley Itzler. Ookay, now: her sons name is Lazer Blake Itzler.
Her husband also owns a part of the Zico coconut water I am constantly guzzling as well as the Sheets caffeine versions of those Listerine strips.
These are, i guess, a kind of Spanx…
These are evidently the rules of Spanx
