- She was also the brunette walking along the beach of the opening credits of the first three seasons of Three's Company (1976). She was wearing a wig.
- When she was age 16, she hit her father over the head with a tennis racket to stop his abuse during a drunken rage. He suffered a concussion, and did not speak to Suzanne for two years.
- At the beginning of the fifth season of Three's Company (1976), she asked for a raise from $30,000 an episode to $150,000 an episode (equivalent to $450,000 in 2014) and 10% ownership of the sitcom. Those requests were not met, and then boycotted the second and fourth shows of the season, claiming false excuses such as a broken rib. ABC forced her to finish out the remaining season on her contract, but decreased her character's role to one minute a week in taping. She was escorted by a security guard to a sound stage behind the set, where she filmed her few scenes, because she was no longer allowed on the set with John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt. Somers was then fired after her contract expired, and she sued ABC for $2 million, claiming her credibility in the business had been damaged. The suit was settled for about $30,000.
- In 1970, she auditioned for Playboy's Playmate of the Month and got as far as a test series of photos taken in the Mexican jungle. She was fully nude except for a gold chain around her waist. Playboy decided not to use her at the time, but paid her $3,000 for the test. After she became a star on Three's Company (1976), Playboy published the entire series of photos and the handwritten Data Sheet that each potential Playmate fills out (in which she gives the year of her birth as 1947). At the time of its publication, she was a popular (and for her, lucrative) spokeswoman in a series of TV commercials for Ace Hardware. Following the publication of the pictures, Ace abruptly fired her, citing the contract's morals clause.
- She and Joyce DeWitt did not speak for 30 years after leaving the sitcom in 1981. In February 2012, they finally reunited after Suzanne invited Joyce to be a guest on her web series "Suzanne Somers: Breaking Through".
- While performing in Las Vegas, she had to paint one shoe red and the other black in order to learn the choreography of the dance numbers. She could not tell her right from her left because of her dyslexia. In 1990, founded the Suzanne Somers Institute for the Effects of Addictions on Families, in Palm Springs, California. In 1991, she won the Humanitarian Award from the National Council on Alcoholism.
- Initially, got the role of Jill Munroe on the television series Charlie's Angels (1976), which she lost to Farrah Fawcett.
- Attended and graduated from Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California (1964). Was active in drama.
- Died one day before her 77th birthday.
- According to Somers' second autobiography, when she signed to do Three's Company (1976) in the spring of 1977, she was to receive $2,750 per episode - it was (and is) standard practice for a beginner on a series to get "scale plus 10 percent", the 10 percent to go to her agent at the time, Jay Bernstein. Somers says she promised Bernstein *all* of the money if he would book her into every guest appearance he could find for her, which he did.
- Was arrested for passing bad checks; the charges were dropped when she paid restitution (1970).
- In January 2007, her Malibu seafront home was burned to the ground by a wind-driven wildfire in Southern California.
- Hired Jay Bernstein to manage her and do for her what he did for Farrah Fawcett.
- Her favorite episode is Handcuffed (1980), in which her character Chrissy is handcuffed to Jack.
- Studied Marilyn Monroe's poses from her movies, and then copied them for media photos during her Three's Company (1976) days.
- Was named Las Vegas' Female Entertainer of the Year (1986).
- She was the fourth actress to be hired for the "Chrissy" role on Three's Company (1976). Actress Susanne Zenor played "Samantha", a Chrissy type in the first pilot. After being rewritten as "Chrissy Snow", ABC hired then fired Denise Galik, replacing her with Susan Lanier. After ABC reviewed the second pilot, they dropped Lanier and hired Somers.
- Has appeared as a contestant on The Dating Game (1965) (1973).
- Associated with the Thighmaster exercise device.
- Somers' former Three's Company (1976) co-star, Joyce DeWitt, reunited with Somers on her online talk show, "Breaking Trough". This was the first time, that the former friends spoke to each other since Somers' firing from Three's Company (1976) in 1981, after she demanded a hefty pay raise.
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 24, 2003.
- (March 28, 2001) Announced on Larry King Live (1985) that she is battling breast cancer, and that she is undergoing homeopathic treatment against the will of her doctors. She also underwent liposuction in an effort to deal with the effects of the cancer.
- Friends with Barry Manilow.
- She was the oldest of the three original cast members of Three's Company (1976).
- Suzanne Sommers recently told TMZ she was pro-Trump. She said she was "happy with the work he was doing with the economy," and "happy with how things are going," one year into the presidency.
- Was good friends with her "Step by Step" costar Patrick Duffy.
- Daughter of Marion Mahoney and Frank Mahoney.
- Mother-in-law of Caroline Somers.
- She was expelled at age 14 for writing sexually suggestive notes to a boy that were never sent.
- Claimed in 1977 she attended Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA.
- Younger sister of Maureen Gilmartin and Daniel Mahoney.
- Drew controversy for speaking out against the Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare) despite her lack of medical credentials.
- Has English and Irish ancestry.
- 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.
- In 1964, Somers graduated from Capuchino High School in San Bruno, California, where she won the "Best Doll Award" for her role in the senior musical Guys and Dolls and helped organize her class's senior ball.
- She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Bullitt (1968) & American Graffiti (1973).
- She attended Lone Mountain College, a college run by the Catholic Society of the Sacred Heart order, but withdrew in 1965 when she learned that she was pregnant. She married her child's father Bruce Somers days later at age 19. Her situation led to low self-esteem.
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