My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.