I was really frustrated and I, and one day we just said, okay, not working. Why don't you stay and be the face?

And I'm like, I don't want to do that. I want to, I want to be everything.

Welcome to No Limits. I'm Rebecca Jarvis. Each week, we're talking to women playing at the top of their game.

So, how are they doing it? Whether you're looking for

answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place. With me today is a woman

whose name is synonymous with beauty. The makeup artist in Chicago Native officially launched her

beauty company in 1991 when she started

selling 10 brown-based lipsticks out of her house and mailing them or even hand-delivering

them. And might I remind you, these were not the days of the internet. So probably not as easy

to do as it would be today. Four years later, her brand had become so popular that Estee Lauder acquired it.

I want to get into the boat you bought after that acquisition.

And now all these years later, you've seen her everywhere on TV.

She was the original how-to in magazines as editor-in-chief of Yahoo Beauty.

Plus, she is a New York Times best-selling author

with her ninth book, Beauty from the Inside Out due out this spring. Bobby Brown, welcome to No

Limits. Thank you. So happy to see you again. It's been a while. I know. It's been a while,

and I'm thrilled to see you, and I'm really excited to get into more details of your story because usually when we talk,

it's about beauty tips. And we might get to some of those, but there's so much to how you built this beauty business that I also want to get to. Sure. So you grew up in Chicago. I did.

In college, you went to a handful of different universities. I did. I went to, the first college

I went to is where my boyfriend was going.

So I went there for six months. And then I went, were all my friends. Did you break up?

No, then we all, the friends, the whole gang of Chicago suburb and kids went to University of

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