Sara Blakely

ABOUT SARA BLAKELY

Businesswoman and founder of Spanx, the wildly successful undergarment company. She was one of the world's youngest self-made female billionaires.

She sold fax machines door-to-door for Danka after graduating from Florida State University.

Her company grew to be worth more than $1 billion in 12 years.

She married Jesse Itzler in 2008; they had a son named Lazer Blake Itzler in 2009.

She and another famous Florida-born entrepreneur, Melinda Gates , were contemporaries.