Spanx began when Sara Blakely cut the feet off her pantyhose.
She had never worked in fashion or manufacturing. She spent $5,000 in savings, wrote her own patent, and drove to North Carolina hunting for a mill to make her prototype. Every mill said no. Then one owner called back after his three daughters talked him into it. By 2012 she was the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
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