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English citations of Spanx

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(a brand of) shaping underwear or leggings which make wearers appear thinner
  • 2014, Sara Barron, The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race, Three Rivers Press (CA), →ISBN, page 125:
    I took off my pants before doing so, however, for I had Spanx on underneath, and I figured sliding down a slide in Spanx would facilitate a swifter and more adventurous descent. The only problem with my plan was that I was now a 
  • 2015 March 3, Judah Smith, Life Is _____.: God's Illogical Love Will Change Your Existence, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 41:
    I'd look in the mirror, not remembering that I was wearing Spanx, and I would be like, “Well helloooo, good-looking! Guess who's eating whatever they want tonight?” Then I'd take off the Spanx, and be like, “I don't know this man!”
  • 2015 October 6, Geralyn Lucas, Then Came Life: Living with Courage, Spirit, and Gratitude After Breast Cancer, Penguin, →ISBN, page 23:
    My husband, Tyler, knew I was wearing Spanx, so wasn't it really a bit disingenuous? Would someone like my book better because of the Spanx? I hurt a finger on my right hand, my signing hand, getting into that Spanx.
  • 2015 October 12, Emma Hart, Dirty Lies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
    “Are you wearing Spanx right now?” “Excuse me?” I smirk at her squeak and glance at her, a grin threatening when I see her jaw go slack and her eyes widen. “Are you wearing Spanx right now?” “What does that have to do with you taking me 
  • 2016 May 3, Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, PublicAffairs, →ISBN:
    On one episode of 30 Rock, Liz Lemon bemoaned the fact that, with three weddings to attend in one day, “I'll be in Spanx for 12 hours.” However, Lemon's creator, Tina Fey, told a redcarpet interviewer that the shapewear was “my dream 
  • 2016 May 23, Lisa Hetfield, Dana M. Britton, Junctures in Women's Leadership: Business, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
    ... uncomfortable, and embarrassing girdles, but she has always focused on making modern women feel good about their bodies and be unabashed about wearing Spanx. In this way, Blakely has reinvented girdles and foundation garments into 
  • 2017 May 1, Kasey Edwards, Guilt Trip: My Quest to Leave the Baggage Behind, Nero, →ISBN:
    And it surely has nothing to do with reports of links between wearing Spanx products and nerve damage. Call me a hater who's gonna hate, but I just have one question: how can a clothing item that's designed to compress women be feminist 
  • 2019 May 21, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, The Last Snowfall, Lyrical Press, →ISBN:
    She felt even better in it now. She liked what Cheri had done with her hair and makeup, and she wasn't wearing Spanx. After she and Caroline had selected the dress, Caroline had asked her if she would feel more comfortable wearing Spanx 
  • 2019 September 10, Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak, Back in Bliss, DLZ Entertainment, →ISBN:
    Could he spank her in Spanx? He probably couldn't do the pussy eating thing while she was in Spanx. Although it did have a convenient hole in the crotch. Maybe he could put his tongue through there and then he wouldn't have to see her 
  • 2020 May 14, Sara B. Marcketti, Elena E. Karpova, The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 164:
    ... manipulation procedures, the products can assist you in reaching this goal. The prevalence and acceptance of these types of body shaping garments was illustrated when in 2014, then First Lady Michelle Obama admitted to wearing Spanx 
  • 2020 August 20, Laura Belbin, Knee Deep in Life: Wife, Mother, Realist... and why we’re already enough, Random House, →ISBN:
    I'd just placed my phone on the cabinet in my hallway, hit record and then got stuck in Spanx. What the fuck??? I expected a response like a couple new followers and some extra laughs. I guess that sums up me as a person.