# @sarablakely on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGUQVHqxgsg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32123176-sarablakely-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0b0a68ff98.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-02-21T01:30:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sara Blakely (@sarablakely) — https://gondola.cc/sarablakely

## Caption

My first baby spanx will turn 25 this year. To celebrate, the Spanx team put up these billboards in LA… how cool! I will never forget the first time a celebrity flashed spanx on the red carpet. It was 2004, and I had spent the last 4 years working 24/7 to build Spanx. I took a break to film a reality TV show called Rebel Billionaire with richardbranson and I didn’t have access to my phone because I was a contestant on the show and I had limited outside interaction. But Richard saw on the news a celebrity had flashed their Spanx on the Red Carpet in LA! Omg. I started screaming and freaking out. I had to know who it was. I later found out it was gwynethpaltrow …pinch me!!! That was the first time a celebrity had talked about what they were wearing under their clothes instead of just what they were wearing on the outside. Turns out it was the first of thousands of #SpanxFlash moments and a movement that would change the way women got dressed. Do you have a Spanx story? ❤️ #spanx

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## Tags

spanx, spanxflash

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