Skimpies Is Coming to Shark Tank: The Original Leggings Liner™ Hits the Tank This Wednesday

LOS ANGELES — Skimpies, the women’s essentials brand behind The Original Leggings Liner™, is officially headed to the Tank.

This Wednesday, September 30th, Skimpies founder and inventor Bette Bentley will appear on the series premiere of Shark Tank, bringing her unconventional approach to women’s everyday essentials to the most famous entrepreneurial stage in America.

What started as a simple idea born out of Bentley’s own experience has grown into a rapidly expanding brand with a passionate community of women known as the Skimpies Sisters.

Skimpies was created to solve a problem many women know all too well: what to wear under leggings, pants and other bottoms when they want to skip traditional underwear without actually going completely commando. The result is The Original Leggings Liner™ — a soft, organic cotton liner designed to be placed directly inside clothing, eliminating waistbands, sides and the bunching that can come with traditional panty liners.

But for Bentley, Skimpies has always been about more than a product.

The former actor and comedy writer turned entrepreneur built the company largely through direct connection with customers, using TikTok LIVE to demonstrate the product, answer questions and build a community around something women had rarely talked about publicly.

That grassroots approach helped Skimpies grow from its earliest days into a brand with over 100 million organic social media views.

Now, Bentley is taking that story to the Sharks.

The Shark Tank appearance marks a major milestone for a company that has built its following without relying on the traditional playbook. Skimpies has continued expanding its product line and retail ambitions, with new women’s essentials in development and a growing presence beyond its direct-to-consumer business.

For Bentley, stepping onto the Tank represents the culmination of years of inventing, selling, listening to customers and relentlessly building the brand one customer at a time. And, naturally, she plans to bring the same energy to the Tank that made Skimpies a social-commerce phenomenon in the first place.

The Skimpies Sisters will finally get to watch their founder make the pitch they've been waiting for.

Skimpies will appear on the series premiere of Shark Tank this Wednesday.

Tune in to see Bette Bentley enter the Tank and find out what happens when Skimpies™ meets the Sharks.

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