Thongs--once the badge of exotic dancers and girls from Ipanema--have become so mainstream that 19 million North American women are wearing them and Kmart bins are overflowing with the skimpy undies.

A sassy hairdo isn't the only thing getting Petrica Cheatum noticed. "Every week she was losing more and more weight and I'd be saying, 'Petrica what are you doing?'" said her friend. It's more like ...

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Sara Blakely was able to change the women’s undergarment industry because she was an outsider. The founder of Spanx Inc. says not knowing the way things had been done, she questioned each step of the ...