When Suzanne Somers first came to the attention the public it was when she began acting in small roles during the late 1960s and early 1970s, appearing on various talk shows promoting her book of poetry and taking on bit parts in movies such as the “Blonde in the T-Bird” in American Graffiti, and an episode of the American version of the sitcom Lotsa Luck as the femme fatale in the early 1970s.

But Suzanne’s career really took off when she landed the role of the ditzy blonde “Chrissy Snow” on the ABC sitcom Three’s Company in 1977. But her stay on the set of the show was short lived when in the 1980-81 season she was fired for demanding $150,000 an episode, and 10% ownership of the program, also for breach of contract.

With her acting career somewhat in tatters Suzanne auditioned for the role of Jill Monroe in Charlie’s Angels in 1976 but the role eventually went to Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

But that didn’t stop her grabbing the attention of the guys at Playboy magazine who signed her up for the cover of Playboy in February 1980 and again in December 1984. Somers photos that appeared in the 1980 Playboy cover and nude pictorial were taken years before, when Suzanne was a struggling model and actress. The 1984 pictorial was current.

Since leaving the world of glamour modeling Suzanne Somers has turned her hand to writing has been the author of 17 books with many of them appearing on the bestseller lists and she currently boasts more than 10 million copies of her books in print worldwide!

Suzanne is a mother, a grandmother, and has been married to celebrity Alan Hamel for nearly 40 years. Suzanne is an inspiration in so many ways to women everywhere, not only for rising from a very troubled childhood to the dizzy heights of stardom, but for her battle with breast cancer which she has made very public, announcing it on the Larry king Live show in 2001.