Spanx billionaire learns not to use this word in UK
October 16, 2013 at 10:10 AM EDT
Sitting next to Warren Buffett for a live interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box," Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx and founder of the women's undergarment company that's made her a billionaire, recounts an embarrassing BBC interview in which she used a word that has a very different meaning in England than it has in the U.S.