John vaillant author biography of suzanne somers

Somers wrote more than 25 books, including two autobiographies, four diet books, and a book of poetry.

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She was also well known for advertising the ThighMaster , an exercise device. While 14 of her books were best sellers and most were focused on health and well-being, doctors criticized her promotion of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and alternative cancer treatments. Suzanne Marie Mahoney was born in San Bruno, California , on October 16, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] as the third [ 4 ] of four children in a working-class Irish-American Catholic family.

Somers first attended Mercy High School in Burlingame, California , but had trouble with her schoolwork because of dyslexia and her father's all-night rages, and she would often fall asleep in class. Pinafore [ 12 ] She was expelled at age 14 for writing sexually suggestive notes to a boy that were never sent. At age 17, Suzanne's father ripped off her prom dress and told her that she was "nothing," and she responded by hitting him in the head with a tennis racket.

She married her child's father, Bruce Somers, days later at age She was arrested for check fraud and her car was impounded. In , she appeared in bit parts in movies, such as the "Blonde in the white Thunderbird " in American Graffiti ' and an uncredited role as a "pool girl" in Magnum Force. In February , she appeared in an episode of the American version of the sitcom Lotsa Luck , based on the British sitcom On the Buses , as the femme fatale.

She appeared in The Rockford Files in Silverman hired her the day before the taping of the third and final pilot commenced. The series co-starred John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt in a comedy about two single women living with a single man who pretended to be gay in order to bypass the landlord's policy of prohibiting single men sharing an apartment with single women.

The program was an instant success in the Nielsen ratings , eventually spawning a short-lived spin-off series, The Ropers , loosely based on the British sitcom George and Mildred , starring Norman Fell and Audra Lindley. She finished the remaining season on her contract; however, her role was reduced to just 60 seconds per episode, with her character appearing in only the episode's closing tag in which Chrissy calls the trio's apartment from her parents' home.