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Suzanne Somers was the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a medical secretary. She grew up living in constant fear of being hurt or even killed at the hands of her verbally and physically abusive, alcoholic father. She was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was young, and was a poor student. She excelled, however, in the arts and was active in her school's theater program. She won a music scholarship to college, but became pregnant after six months. She married the baby's father, Bruce Somers, and her only child, Bruce Somers, was born in November 1965. She was unhappy in her marriage and began an affair with her former drama teacher. Her husband found out about it and the marriage ended after just two years, in 1967. A single mom, she turned to modeling in San Francisco to support herself and her son. She also distanced herself from her family because her older brother and sister by then were also alcoholics.

In 1968, she won a job as a prize model on a game show hosted by her future husband, Alan Hamel, who was married at the time. The two began dating, and she became pregnant while Hamel was still married. They came to the conclusion that Suzanne should have an abortion, from which she suffered severe complications for several days.

In 1971, her son Bruce was severely injured when he was hit by a car, and the therapist counseling him only charged the financially struggling Somers $1 per week. She underwent therapy herself to overcome the problems of her dysfunctional childhood. In the early 1970s, she landed minor roles in film and TV, and finally won a role on the series Three's Company (1976). She married Hamel in 1977. She was fired from the series after she asked for a raise at the beginning of the fifth season.

She then headed to Las Vegas, where she performed extensively in the mid-1980s. In 1986, she began writing her autobiography, "Keeping Secrets", which was later made into a TV movie. In 1991, she landed the role of "Carol Foster", opposite Patrick Duffy, on the TV series Step by Step (1991). After the end of that show, she began co-hosting Candid Camera (1992).

My goal in life is to become the person my dog thinks I am.

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health, rather than disease care.

[posing nude on Instagram] We were walking on the hillside road on our property and I think it was like June. It was hot and dry. I said, &#39;Oh my god, the foliage here is the same color as my hair.&#39; Because, by that time, all the weeds and bushes had turned yellow. So I got down and said, &#39;Take a picture of me. The weeds will look like my hair&#39; I took my top down because I was with my husband, and he took that great picture.

[would she pose for Playboy again] That would be really cool. I would like to have Annie Leibovitz shoot me nude for Playboy for my 75th birthday.

[on being fired from the Three&#39;s Company TV series] What was it unfair what happened to me at ABC? Yep. It was unfair, but life isn&#39;t fair and you have to get over things and move forward.

I understood something way back when I was on &#39;Three&#39;s Company.&#39; When I got the part I was flat broke, I was so happy to get the part but I kept thinking, ugh dumb blondes are so irritating, how do I make her likable? I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

I was grateful that I was with her when she left us, and it was very peaceful and it was beautiful, and she was beautiful.

I was dubbed &#39;Queen of the Jiggle&#39; on &quot;Three&#39;s Company&quot;, and I would see in the script when I come in on Monday &#39;And Chrissy jumps for joy&#39;. So they would write things where Chrissy would get so excited &#39;cuz she was a girl woman, that she&#39;d jump up and down, and that&#39;s when boobs were real, and they&#39;d bounce back and forth and that seemed to get good ratings, and they kept writing &#39;And Chrissy jumps for joy&#39;.

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