How I Built This How I Built This

Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)

2017-07-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·29m 28s ·by Guy Raz / NPR
Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)
How I Built This
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About this episode

We’re hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Spanx. At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she came up with Spanx — hosiery that eliminates panty lines — and set to work building her business. PLUS