Women With A Billion Dollar Net Worth: Sara Blakely

Meet Sara Blakely, one of the richest women in the United States.

Blakely is a 44 year old entrepreneur currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She is responsible for Spanx, a hosiery business that shapes a women’s curves to make them look and feel good about themselves.

Sara Blakey’s life really began when denied from law school because of failing her entry test. From there, she decided to take on a job with Walt Disney but quickly left there to start her new position with Danka selling fax machines door to door.

Although that may not seem like the ideal job out of college, Sara became good at her job and quickly was promoted to National Sales trainer by the age of 25. Now satisfied with her job, she couldn’t help but to despise the requirements of all women having to wear pantyhose in order to be conservative and appropriate while at work.

This inspired the young woman at the time to come up with another way of tucking away a women’s revealing body parts but still feeling comfortable while looking good.