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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!” One of Blakely’s all-time favorite encounters was when a fan recognized her at the airport.

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