This Woman Turned Her $5,000 of Savings into a Fashion Empire

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Similar to how the word Band-Aid transformed from a brand name to the word we use to refer to any bandage, Sara Treleaven Blakely created the company, Spanx, which replaced “shapewear” in the cultural zeitgeist. #1 Early Life Sara Treleaven Blakely was born in 1971 in Clearwater, Florida. She attended Clearwater High School and earned […]

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