Somers said she worked hard to bring dimension to her bubbly blonde character in a 2012 interview. “I feel very fortunate that I got in at that moment in time.” 1 show in the country, there was a collective consciousness because about half of everybody watching television on Tuesday nights were watching Three’s company,” she said in 2015 during a CNN interview. The sitcom was a huge success and catapulted Somers into stardom. Starring alongside the late John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt, Somers played the buoyant typing receptionist for five seasons between 19. Throughout the early ’70s, Somers appeared in various TV shows including “One Day at a Time,” “The Love Boat” and “Starsky and Hutch” before landing her breakout role as Snow. In 1973, she earned her first on-screen credit as “blonde in a T-Bird” in George Lucas’s Oscar nominated film “American Graffiti.” Somers began acting in the early 1960s with a series of uncredited film roles. She went on to author multiple books, including Bestsellers “Sexy Forever,” “Knockout” and “Ageless.” She also hosted her own talk show and became a wellness entrepreneur, built largely off the success of her famous partnership with ThighMaster, which turned her into something of a fitness icon.
Hulton Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images Somers’ multifaceted career spanned decades, but she was best known for her role as Chrissy Snow on the hit ABC sitcom “Three’s Company” that ran through the late ’70s and early ‘80s. She was first diagnosed with the disease in 2001, she revealed in an interview with Larry King. I know how to put on my battle gear and I’m a fighter.” As you know, I had breast cancer two decades ago, and every now and then it pops up again, and I continue to bat it down,” she wrote on Instagram. “Since I have been taking time off from work, many of you have asked for more details about my health. In July, Somers revealed a recurrence of breast cancer. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly,” the statement added. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. The statement said Somers “was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family.” She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” Hay wrote in a statement shared on behalf of the actress’ family. “Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th.
Suzanne Somers, the actress who lit up the small screen on “Three’s Company” and one of TV’s most iconic fitness pitchwomen, has died, according to a statement provided to CNN from her longtime publicist R.
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