Spanx Founder Sara Blakeley: How She Turned $5,000 Into A Billion
![](https://d.ibtimes.com/en/full/107648/sara-blakely-spanx.jpg)
Spanx founder Sara Blakeley recently made it onto the Forbes World
Spanx founder Sara Blakeley recently made it onto the Forbes World's Billionaires 2012 list, following the success of her company's line of shapewear clothing products. In an on-camera interview with
![](https://www.dailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OCR-Z-SPANX-BLACKSTONE.jpg?w=1024)
From $5,000 to $1.2 billion: Spanx lands investment deal with Blackstone – Daily News
![](https://mms.businesswire.com/media/20211020005757/en/918446/5/SPANX_Founder_Sara_Blakely_Photographer_Credit_Paul_Thatcher.jpg)
Blackstone Buys Majority Stake in SPANX, Inc.
![](https://images.inc.com/uploaded_files/image/1024x576/sara-blakely-ws_pano_13232_83337.jpg)
How Spanx Founder Sara Blakely Turned $5,000 Into a Billion-Dollar Undergarment Business
![](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/121203031432-sara-blakely-gillian-segal.jpg?q=w_3344,h_5016,x_0,y_0,c_fill)
Spanx's Sara Blakely: Turning $5,000 into $1 billion with panties
![](https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BIL.0122.Sara-Blakely-Outside-horizontal.jpg)
Female founders are crashing the billionaire club: Sara Blakely, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Anne Wojcicki
![](https://imageio.forbes.com/images-forbes/media/2012/03/06/0306_billionaire-sara-blakely-seamless_400x600.jpg?height=400&width=711&fit=bounds)
How Sara Blakely of Spanx Turned $5,000 into $1 billion
![](https://d.ibtimes.com/en/full/107648/sara-blakely-spanx.jpg?w=1600&h=900&l=50&t=30&q=88&f=d5ff950c55bc97d599ac95ddbac99b24)
Spanx Founder Sara Blakeley: How She Turned $5,000 Into A Billion [VIDEO]
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7a6wGw_9lk8/maxresdefault.jpg)
Spanx Creator Sara Blakely Turns $5,000 Into A Billion
![](https://d.ibtimes.com/en/full/107648/sara-blakely-spanx.jpg)
Spanx Founder Sara Blakeley: How She Turned $5,000 Into A Billion [VIDEO]
![](https://cdn.britannica.com/21/232021-050-2E82C491/American-inventor-and-entrepreneur-Sara-Blakely-2019.jpg)
Sara Blakely, Biography, Spanx, & Facts