Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers (born Suzanne Marie Mahoney, October 16, 1946) is an American actress, author, singer, businesswoman and health spokesperson; best known for her television roles as Chrissy Snow on Three's Company and as Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step. Somers later became the author of a series of best-selling self-help books, including Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones (2006), about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. She has released two autobiographies, four diet books, and a book of poetry. She has been criticized for her views on some medical subjects and her advocacy of the Wiley Protocol, which has been labelled as "scientifically unproven and dangerous". Her promotion of alternative cancer treatments has received praise from naturopathic health practitioners and criticism from the American Cancer Society. 2Personal life Born Suzanne Marie Mahoney in San Bruno, California, Somers was the third of four children in an Irish-American Catholic family. Her mother, Marion Elizabeth (née Turner), was a medical secretary, and her father, Francis Mahoney, was a laborer and gardener. She attended Capuchino High School and was accepted at San Francisco College for Women (a.k.a. "Lone Mountain College"), a now-defunct single-sex school which became a campus of the Jesuit University of San Francisco. After a brief marriage to the father of her first child, Bruce Somers, she became a prize model on Anniversary Game (1969–70