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I had a distaste for this company from the get-go, because the marketing was all about female empowerment, but the product was the opposite of ethical or sustainable: cheap, synthetic leggings that came with zero information about where or how they were made. When I dug deeper, the story got much more sinister. The leggings were so cheaply made they would fall apart after one or two wears. Even worse, women who joined this direct sales company found themselves going into debt, losing friends, getting divorced, losing their homes, and going bankrupt. They were promised financial freedom. What actually happened...