Sara Blakely
Entrepreneur
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 their Florida-born entrepreneur, Melinda Gates, were contemporaries.