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Jinger Lee Heath Jinger Heath was born Jinger Lee Marples on December 25, 1953. She was raised in Dumas, Texas, by homemaker Wyanelle, and her father, a wholesale care dealer and alcoholic who drifted in and out of her family's life. As a teenager, Jinger moved with her family to Michigan, where she was editor of her high school yearbook. Jinger won the high school best-dressed award because she never wore the same outfit twice.

In 1971 at age nineteen, Jinger met Richard "Dick" Heath, a divorced father of two boys, on a skip trip in Aspen, Colorado. They married a year later, and became parents to a son and daughter.

Dick grew up in Illinois and began working in high school following the death of his alcoholic father. Dick married at 19, selling pots and pans door-to-door to support his family. He worked as an executive for Florida-based Tupperware, then for a cosmetic company Tri-Chem, where he rose to senior vice president. In 1980, Dick used his life savings to purchase his own direct-sales cosmetic company, BeautiControl, whose annual sales were $761,000. Jinger Heath agreed to join BeautiControl as a 50% owner. She took on the overhaul of the company's outdated product line and urged significant changes to the business model.

Initially resisting Jinger's ideas, Dick agreed to promote her head-to-toe image program, Color Analyis, when the company couldn't pay its business loan in 1982. Within one year, 1983 to 1984, the sales force tripled and sales grew to $7,950,000.

In 1986, the Heaths took the company public.