I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

Embrace what you don`t know