This is the success story of the spirited and indomitable woman who founded Mary Kay Cosmetics with a $5000 investment and turned it into a multi-million dollar business. Sharing her feelings, philosophies, disappointments, joys and hopes, Mary Kay revealed how she developed a tiny store front business into a company whose products are sold around the world by over 100,000 saleswomen. She tells the story of her childhood, her struggles to support her three children after she was widowed; and how she invested her life savings in Mary Kay Cosmetics, against the advice of her accountant and attorney. But her gamble paid off and she became a living legend to her army of independent representatives.