"I've lived my life from breast to breast."
Ruth Handler
“Since I was a little girl I have always known I would help women. In my wildest dreams I never thought I would have started with their butts.”Sara Blakely entrepreneur
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In 1976, the mother of Barbie ~ the doll who debuted a famously ample {+ controversial} bosom ~ announced she was going back into the "breast business." This time, Ruth set out to make prosthetic breasts for breast cancer patients + mastectomees like herself.
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In 1976, Ruth decided it was time revolutionize the prosthetic breast industry. And, who better to do it than someone who had been through the experience of breast cancer + a mastectomy herself? So, the longtime entrepreneur set out to create protheses that felt + looked right. Ruth sold her mastectomy products company to Spenco Medical Corporation in 1991. Today, the company is still a leader in prosthetic breasts.
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