Many people remember Suzanne Somers from her role as Chrissy Snow in the top-rated '70s comedy "Three's Company."
Suzanne Somers is the third of 4 children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a homemaker. In her youth she was diagnosed with dyslexia. Suzanne excelled in the arts and was active in her school's theater program. She won a music scholarship to college, but became pregnant after 6 months. She married the baby's father, Bruce Somers, and her only child, Bruce Jr., was born in November 1965. Her marriage subsequently ended after just 2 years, in 1967.
As a single mother, Suzanne 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, Suzanne won a job as a prize model on a game show hosted by her future husband, Alan Hamel.
In 1971, Suzannes' son Bruce was severely injured when he was hit by a car, and the therapist counseling him only charged the struggling Suzanne $1 per week. Suzanne herself also underwent therapy 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, where she modeled her character after Dick Clark's wife. She married Hamel in 1977. She was fired from Three's Company 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, Suzanne landed the role of Carol Foster, opposite Patrick Duffy, on the TV series Step by Step. Since the end of SBS, she has begun co-hosting the series Candid Camera.
She has devoted a lot of energy in the Suzanne Somers Institute for the Effects of Addictions on the Family, for which she is founder and director. In 1991 she lecture before a U.S. Senate Committee on the subject. Since then she has lecture a lot through the U.S. She has been awarded Humanitarian Award from the National Counsil on Alcoholism, Mother of the Year Award, and the President's Award from the National Association of American Drug Counselors.
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