30 Parents Who Made it Big

10. Brandi Temple

Brandi Temple got married in her 20’s, had her first son, and got a divorce. Soon after, she got married again, and had two daughters with her second husband. She jokes that all she ever wanted was to be a “trophy wife”, and really only had goals of being the best mom and wife she could be. She took her family to church every Sunday, and she wanted her daughters to have age-appropriate dresses that fit correctly and that she could monogram. However, buying a dress in the store and taking it to a tailor every time she wanted something done would cost a fortune. So she started sewing these dream dresses from scratch.

She had a lot of leftover fabric, and she didn’t want it to go to waste. So she posted a photo of her daughter’s dress on eBay, and offered to custom-make an identical dress for someone else, after they provided their daughter’s measurements. They started to sell, and and she opened up a brand on Facebook under the name Lolly Wolly Doodle. Now, the company has a huge team of women sewing in Lexington, North Carolina, and brings in roughly $20 million per year.