Everything In Our Society Is So Purposeful.

My Husband Is Such A Healthy Eater. Except When It Comes To Sweets. He Never Consumes Anything Except Fruit Until Noon. And Then From Noon On He Might Have Some Brown Rice And Some Tofu, And Then, Come Eight Or Nine At Night, He Orders Three Mud-pie Double-chocolate Pieces Of Cake And Eats All Three Of Them.

When I Was A Child, My Father Used To Encourage My Brother And Me To Fail. At The Dinner Table, Instead Of Asking About The Best Part Of Our Day, He Would Ask Us What We Failed At That Week. If We Didn't Have Something To Tell Him, He Would Be Disappointed. When We Shared Whatever Failure We'd Endured, He'd High-five Us And Say, 'way To Go!' The Gift My Father Gave Us By Doing This Was Redefining What Failure Truly Meant.

I Shopped For Body Shapers For The First Time In My Life And I Was Horrified. They Were Thick - It Was Like Wearing Workout Clothes And They All Had A Leg Band On One Side That Showed Through The Pants.

I Have This System Where If I Buy Three Or Four New Things, I Give Away Three Or Four Things. Sometimes, It's A Very Painful System, But Shopping Is Even Better When You Know That Someone Else Who Needs It Will Be Getting. Keep The Clothing Karma Going, I Say.

I Got A Call From The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Had Chosen Spanx As One Of Her Favorite Products In 2000. I Had Boxes Of Product In My Apartment And I Had Two Weeks Notice That She Was Going To Say She Loved It On Tv And I Had No Shipping Department.