Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

After working at the William Morris Agency Music Corporation of America and Jaffe talent agencies Helen Gurley Brown went to work for Foote Cone & Belding advertising agency as a secretary. In 1937 Brown her sister Mary and their mother moved to Los Angeles California. Bad girls go everywhere.

She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.