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RIP. There’s only one left for company.
I can now stop looking for the blonde in the white Thunderbird. So sad to hear this. 
No more special dedications either. 
RIP.
A beautiful woman. While this probably was not exclusively due to ThighMaster use, I also admired her outspokenness, courage, and deviation from stereotype.
Quote: “… I also admired her outspokenness, courage, and deviation from stereotype…”
Huh? Suzanne Somers made a mint off the dumb blonde stereotype. And while other feminists were burning their bras to protest the objectification of women, Somers removed hers and made her nipples must-watch TV.
Still, she was a brainy and beautiful woman.
I like to think Saint Peter is singing “Come and knock on our door, we’ve been waiting for you…”
I didn’t pay enough attention to TV to know the roles she played, but I saw her on Larry King Live when she was getting on in years and was busy flogging her questionable “stay young forever” techniques. IIRC, she was a huge fan of HRT. Clearly, she’d had a lot of plastic surgery and fillers, and she looked awful.
That doesn’t make her a bad person, but I did feel that she promoted an “aging is bad” philosophy that was both literally and figuratively unbecoming.
She looks fine to me
She was an attractive woman until she overdid the fake stuff - of course you can see photos of her where she looks okay. But seen continuously, rather than as just a snapshot, I guarantee you she looked cringy by the time she did the Larry King interview where I saw her. (She may have been on more than once, of course.)
Yep, all the way to the bank!
Here she is from that time her house was broken into while she was live streaming. This was a few years ago. Still, I think she looked just fine for a 70+ year old.
She fought the good fight.
No she did not “fight the good fight.” She fought against Obamacare, in favor of medical quackery, and for the attitude that aging in women is so unattractive that it must be stopped even at the cost of their health. Here’s an article from the New Republic:
…the mountain of misinformation and half-truths on which Ms. Somers has built her post-show-business career as a health guru. Since 2004, with the publication of The Sexy Years , she has been a relentless advocate of so-called “bioidentical” hormone replacement therapy for post-menopausal women. In her latest book, I’m Too Young For This! , published last month by Crown Books, she doubles down, pushing hormone therapy for women in their 40s and even 30s, who have not even undergone menopause yet.
… Thanks to hormones, her skin is smooth, her hot flashes are gone, and as she claimed in 2006’s Ageless , “I have substantially reversed the aging process in my body.” She has riffed on this same basic theme in most of her 24 (!) books, from Ageless to Breakthrough to Bombshell to her current offering.
…In her notorious 2009 Oprah interview, she revealed that she injects hormones directly into her vagina. Every day. Plus a daily shot of human growth hormone.
Somers was fired from Three’s Company after she complained she was only making 20% of Ritter’s salary (allegedly since the studios also did not want to properly pay Laverne and Shirley). She may have played a dumb blonde and benefitted from that, but that is not who she was. I don’t really agree with many of her medical ideas (see above post), but she was a smart businesswoman and not really like the characters she played. And it does take courage to battle serious diseases so publicly. AFAIK she was an advocate for geriatric sex positivity, and she wasn’t an anti-vaxxer.
More seriously, Suzanne Somers promoted cancer quackery, including that of Nicholas Gonzalez, whose pancreatic cancer treatment plan included cramming down 150 supplements pills a day (along with two coffee enemas). Not surprisingly, a clinical trial showed patients enduring the Gonzalez regimen did much more badly than patients receiving standard treatment, along with worse quality of life.
*stories of her death on CNN and NPR don’t address her promotion of quackery, while USA Today’s piece does. Go figure.
That would really freak out Joyce DeWitt.
And being banned from Starbucks.
Suzanne was very good on Threes Company. The show was never as good with her replacements. They didn’t have Suzanne’s comic timing.
I don’t believe Suzanne’s acting career ever recovered from her studio fight. But she created a business empire and was very wealthy. I guess she had the last laugh.
RIP
She did well enough - Step by Step was no cultural icon or ratings barn-burner, but it managed to survive for seven seasons. That is a very significant second run for any actor.
I never saw Step by Step. I’m glad Suzanne got a 2nd series.