Sara Treleaven Blakely was born on February 27, 1971.
As a young lady, her father always challenges her to go and fail.
Blakely's father would always ask her, "What have you failed at this week?"
And because of this training, the young Sara Blakely embraced failures as part of life.

As a young lady, she wanted to become a trial Attorney but when she sat for the Law School Admission Test, she failed.

She worked at Disney but quit.
Blakely later got a job at a local company selling fax machines door-to-door.
For seven long years, she was involved in cold-calling, getting the door slammed on her face, being chased away from houses with policemen, and then one day while selling fax machines, Blakely realized that the undergarment she needed didn't exist.
So, she cut out holes at the feet of her pantyhose, which sparked the idea of a new product.
She ended up shopping her idea to several manufacturers – who thought her idea was crazy.
They refused to create her product.

But Blakely kept searching until one day, her luck shone.