Joy Mangano

[UPSyours2]

My best friend Kristel works w/Joys Mangano's Mom Terry...She's talking to me on her cell phone on her lunch break & says to me to take a guess which tv stars Mom works w/her. I'm like ok as I watch many tv shows I've got no clue She found out because they were talking about the show on USA. She said her grand-daughter was going to be on it also. Now she had to go home to find the NEWSDAY article in the paper which she thinks she just threw the papers out the day before for recycling.

I told her to find it online
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment...ostemailedlink


It's the house that Huggable Hangers built. Sprawled on 10 acres of prime Nissequogue landscape off Stony Brook Harbor, this 40,000-square-foot French country mansion - you read that right, 40 thousand - has wings jutting here and wings jutting there and an enormous indoor pool fed by water-spitting swan statues. It seems plenty big enough to hold all 70 million of the felt-flocked no-slip hangers that owner Joy Mangano has sold at about a dollar a pop through home-shopping TV.


Millions have. Thanks to HSN's 89-million-home reach, shoppers have taken a onetime struggling single mom from an office in her dad's Deer Park body shop to this estate. This inventor turned supreme on-air seller and company president is a self-made multimillionaire.

You see this house, and you know why Mangano says during an interview, "I am living my own personal American dream story." She practically pops with pride in recalling how a contractor, hired to enlarge the living room when she moved in four years ago, was so impressed with the scope of the place that he kept asking about the owner - "What does this guy DO for a living?"

Another reason for her success?

"I run my business like an Italian family," Mangano says. Many employees have been there for years - one reason Mangano remains based on Long Island, although HSN is headquartered in Florida. Along with daughter Christie on staff, Mangano's ex-husband Tony Morinne is her executive vice president of sales. Daughter Jackie, 21, has modeled for mom, and with son Bobby, 22, in law school at Fordham, who knows where he'll end up working?

Even her kids illustrate what a tornado Mangano can be when she puts her mind to it. "I had them all a year apart," says their mom. "I guess that exemplifies when I do things; I throw myself into it."

Which is probably why the one thing she hasn't sold is herself on getting married again. She laughs at the thought. "Who would marry somebody who works seven days a week, 24 hours a day?"

Well. Look at that house.

The pic was in the newspaper...I never saw it. I guess that's why Kristel wants the original NEWSDAY article.

It's funny because I always bought her stuff on QVC

~ Piatto bakery box~
~ Tuck-it bucket~
~ the roll-up case you use instead of a junk drawer~

Now she's on HSN & I usually don't buy stuff from there.

I thought about getting the hugable hangers when it was a TS but they sold out.

Now they have a show on USA called Made in the USA about new inventions
"Made in the USA" (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. on USA). Over the next six weeks, everyday citizen-inventors compete to realize their own American dream with the grand prize of a year's contract with Home Shopping Network.


http://www.usanetwork.com/series/mad...files/mangano/



~ANDREA~

[SHOPGIRL]

Buy the huggable hangers. They are by far, her best invention. I try to buy them when they are a ts or have free shipping. Yes, they may cost a $1, but they do work. Your closet will look better, and best of all, your clothes won't fall of the hangers.

Thanks for sharing.