After holding several jobs, she took some savings and traveled through Tahiti, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Australia and on to Johannesburg her last stop. She was expelled from South Africa after going to a jazz club on black night, violating apartheid laws. When she returned to England she met Gordon Roddick and the two were married in 1971, while she was pregnant with their second child. The couple owned and ran a restaurant and eight-room hotel and before long they felt overworked and needed a change of direction. With her approval, Gordon went off to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York City and Anita was left to support herself and her two children.
Men only have conversations or memories about their first shave.
But women will always use the body as a canvas, a playground. Even when they were taken to the gallows, women would always want to put some makeup on. The shop was thriving and by the time her husband returned from his 10-month trek, she had opened a second store and customers were asking if they could start their own Body Shop branches. The Roddicks set up a system of franchises. The Body Shop has developed a reputation for supporting social and environmental causes, but Roddick bristles at the notion that The Body Shop is a cause marketer.