Spanx founder Sara Blakely a billionaire

Spanx is word that most women are familiar with. It's a type of shapewear that helps to smooth away lumps and bumps and also leaves no trace of a panty line. The creator of this product, Sara Blakely has been inducted to this

Sara Blakely was just 27-years-old when she decided to create smoothing undergarments that would flatter a females figure, since that time Spanx has become.

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By Nedra Rhone Spanx Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, is the youngest person on Forbes magazine's World Billionaire's list. On Wednesday, Forbes magazine announced that Blakely, 41, is the youngest person on its World Billionaire's list worth ten

Thanks to her ingenious idea to combine insecurity, enormous underpants, and elastic sausage casings, Sara Blakely, the forty-one-year-old inventor of Spanx, is now the world's youngest female self-made billionaire.